I also added radials to a Ringo Ranger and found it to improve the operation on
an old Progress Line tube type 2 M repeater I built back in the '70s. I built
them from aluminum ground wire and clamped them to the base of the antenna. I
found that it improved the operation of the repeater quite a bit.
I observed that some Ringo Ranger base station installations worked just fine
and some did not, and suspected that the feedline decoupling mentioned already
was a problem. The radials helped to keep antenna currents off the outside of
the feedline and improved the operation.
73 - Jim W5ZIT
--- On Thu, 10/2/08, wd8chl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: wd8chl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Antenna recommendations 220
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 8:53 AM
Our solution was to add radials from a junk Stationmaster at the base of
the antenna itself, a few inches below the 'loading' coil. Made a HUGE
difference, even in a non-duplex app.
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