Hi Jed.
If you're not interested in a lot of gain, try a discone. They're about as broadbanded as you can get, and not too expensive. I bought one from the local ham shop in Newington for less than $100. It's good for 2 meters and up. I've seen some discones designed for scanners that have a loaded whip out the top to resonate down to low bands. It's not too broadbanded at this low band frequency, since it's almost like a regular hamstick or other loaded antenna. Still. The discone part work pretty well at the frequencies it's designed for. Discones are like high pass filters. A discone built for 2 meters will work up to almost microwave frequencies. Great for a test antenna. 73 de N1FNE _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maxwell D Pratt Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Antennas that work both in commercial and amateur --- In Repeater-Builder@ <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com, "skipp025" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are going to use this Antenna to work on and test radio's & need a split of 135 to 174 I don't that will be possible, Most antenna will cover that range but you have to trim them for a certain Freq some are trimmed at Factory & some user has to trim . As per the difference between Commercial and ham antennas usually the commercial antennas are better built & will withstand more wind load & last longer with less service , But I don't think would have any better signal . I use both for ham Have a chushcraft 26-b2 has been in use for 9 years works as good as day I put up . Also have a commercial Dipole stacked 4 which has been in use for same amount of time . Both are on 30' tower if I was going to put on tower above 100' would want the best antenna I could find or Buy would be a whole lot cheaper than having to replace often . > > "Jed Barton" <jed@> wrote: > > > > Hey guys, > > I need some suggestions. I need a vhf and a uhf antena. > > Here's the requirement. I'm planning to operate both amateur and > commercial > > stuff from the house. > > I'd rather not use a ham antenna in the commercial bands. > > Are there some that'll do the 136 to 174 split, and some UHF that'll > do like > > 439 to 490? > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Jed > > >
