Check out Comtelco antennas, you will find them online. We use several of them, very good quality, reasonable cost. lance/N2HBA ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Urish To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Lightning Damage, new UHF antenna needed
Jeff wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Well, it finally happened. We got hit by lightning. And it blew the > antenna in half on the 444.325 machine here at the college. > > It wasn't a great antenna to begin with, obviously. We'd like to go > back with something much better if possible. We're thinking maybe a > multibay folded dipole antenna of some sort with an omni pattern like > the DB 404, but if there's a better choice we'd love to hear it. > > There don't seem to be a lot of choices in antennas tuned for Amateur > Repeaters. Most of the ones we're seeing are Part 90 antennas > (450-470 MHz). I don't know how much trouble it would be to retune > one or in the case of phased folded dipoles if it's even possible. > > What is the consensus Best UHF Repeater Antenna, considering all the > above (omnidirectional, probably no more than 100 watts)? Get a DB-420... They are plenty broadband...Don't think.. Just do it! -- Jay Urish W5GM ARRL Life Member Denton County ARRL VEC N5ERS VP/Trustee Monitoring 444.850 PL-88.5
