On May 10, 2008, at 5:44 PM, wb8art wrote: > --- In [email protected], Kevin Custer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> Steve Bosshard wrote: >>> Aluminum gives directivity and pattern - GAIN comes from EIMAC. >> >> Now THIS guy knows his stuff..... >> >> 4CX250R (Eimac) and 2 meters.... Yea! >> > Yeah 8877 Now your talking!!!!
5000' HAAT and I'll be at home with a cold 807 instead. :-) Of course, "gain" on an antenna should be "gain to the horizon" versus other directions, for most omnidirectional antennas (if you mount them properly... grin)... just ask the satellite guys if they always want the antenna "gain" pointed at the horizon. (BIG GRIN) (Hmmm... MIC-E packets from all the repeater's user radios with GPS lat/long data embedded in them, a way to decode that at the mountain and point the antennas az/el rotor and medium-sized yagis, mounted vertically... hahaha now that I've said it, some nut will TRY it.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
