TX-RX will also stack VHF and UHF antennas in whatever arrangement you want
on the same mast. Their antennas are made by RF Industries, an Australian
company (www.rfi.com.au), not to be confused with the RF Industries that
makes connectors and adapters and the like. I've been meaning to try their
antennas but haven't yet. They appear to be well-built based on the
information in their sales literature and specs on the web site.
Sinclair is also a good option as Doug suggested.
Another alternative is to get your own mast and order Telewave dipoles for
both bands (Telewaves don't come with a mast).
Like Doug said, if the antenna is going to be side-mounted anyway, you may
as well go with separate antennas, one invert-mounted. About the same
amount of vertical real estate, wind load, etc., and gives you more
flexibility as far as what antennae you order. Likewise, if you have a
problem with one of them later, you only have to service/replace that
antenna. Just make sure whatever antenna you plan to invert is capable of,
or special-ordered for, invert-mounting.
--- Jeff WN3A
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Bade
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:50 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] DB314
>
> The db314 is no longer in production and no Andrew/Decibel
> replacement . I would suspect Sinclair could build a special.. but it
> will be custom. There is no industry eq for the db314... directly...
> which by the way is not on ham split.... it is commercial.... I
> suspect Sinclair would make one custom for 140 and 440 splits as
> opposed to 150 and 450....
>
> An alternate option might be to put a side arm with 2 antennas, one
> up and one down..... as that would open the field for many more
> options.... the dual on one mast was a sole vendor item I ever saw..
> except for specials... from folks like Sinclair...
>
> From: [email protected]
> <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of
> georgiaskywarn
> >Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
> >To: [email protected]
> <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>
> >Subject: [Repeater-Builder] DB314
> >
> >
> >
> >Just got the news that our ARES group has gotten approval on a grant
> >($) to move our repeaters to another tower. We are planning
> on using a
> >DB314 as our remote base antenna. We got a quote from these folks;
> ><http://shop.industrialpartner.com/A/andrew/db314-a.htm
> <http://shop.industrialpartner.com/A/andrew/db314-a.htm>
> >http://shop.industrialpartner.com/A/andrew/db314-a.htm
> <http://shop.industrialpartner.com/A/andrew/db314-a.htm>
> >.
> >It was a little more than $1000.00. I think (unfortunately) that is
> >the going price. This quote was back in January. Have to check back
> >with the folks to even see if they have this in stock. When I checked
> >in January...NO ONE else had these.
> >
> >Any suggestions on places to look? I did a Google and found this
> >place. However, couldn't find anyone else. In January, I called
> >Hutton and Tessco and they didn't have one either.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Robert
> >KD4YDC
>
>
>
>
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