Reading the replies that mentioned gain specs, I can't help but think of our last ham club meeting. An older member persuaded the club to replace the VHF repeater antenna with a Diamond X500HNA rather than a DB-224 because the Diamond "has 8.3 dB gain".
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim B." Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Antennas that work both in commercial and amateur As Laryn mentioned, the 10dB stationmasters are only available at UHF and above, because a 10dB version at 150Mhz (probably even 220) would be on the order of 40-50' long!

