Daniel, You are correct about Tessco selling the Ringo Ranger II.
I've seen the Ranger II used in many non-ham installs always at low sites and on short poles and pipes. They have their place. Don't think ever seen used on a repeater in these situations. I've also seen station masters and DB224s at 30 ft. Not sure now but for the commercial version it use to be advertised as 4.5 dbd gain, which I believe, but same ant in Ham publications was 6 db. Never figured it out. Guess 6 db for commercial is different for Ham, hi. I've used a number of these and have 3 Ringos, the 3 ft version, and they do work especially where one cannot get a ground plane such as for disaster/emergency use. Light, quick to set up and easy to transport. 73, ron, n9ee/r >From: Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/06/24 Tue AM 08:09:09 EDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Reasonably low wind load antenna > >On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Ron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Your wind loading limits will require a smaller, lower gain antenna. If ice >> is a problem the Ringo-Ranger will probably not last that long. >> >> I would recommend going to www.tessco.com, a distributor of 2-way gear, and >> check thru their antenna section. They have a number of finnne manufactures >> with their specs. > >not to point out the obvious, but the Ringo is actually among the >antennas Tessco offers: > >http://www.tessco.com/products/displayProducts.do?groupId=340&subgroupId=30 > >-- >Dan Brown >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.brauhaus.org > > Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
