John, I'm e-mailing this directly as well as the group so the attachment comes through (I think yahoo strips them off). I'm using a hustler G-7 on 2 meters and a G-6 on 440 machine. Both have been up on the tower for 2 years. Both have worked fine with no problems. They both are mount on a cross bar out from the tower with no top support. I'm located in up-state NY york and our winters are pretty rough on antennas. I did made a couple of changes to them however. First throw out the cheap radials that come with it and go to the hardware store and buy some solid alum tubing. I learned this the hard way as the one's that come with it are howl tubing. after the birds sit on it or it gets iced up once they break off. Secondly once you get it all tuned Krylon makes a clear coat spray paint. Spray the whole thing a couple of times. Does wonders protecting it from the UV rays. I've attached a picture of the tower with the antennas on it.
Good luck with your repeater. Mike KA2NDW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of John Poindexter Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] 2 meter repeater Hi again, I found out that the ham building our repeater is using a GE Master II. He suggested we use a G7-144. Our antenna will be mounted on top of the tower at either 60 or 70 feet, as we getting a newer tower than the 35 foot one that is up now. Does anybody think that the G7 will not hold up being top mounted? I have read the comments here about current the antenna question on the G7-220 and have read the G7-144 reviews on eham, which run both ways. Now I am looking for actual repeater owners' comments, which I would value more than the eham ones. Hopefully, we will have it up and running by July. The funny thing is our users will be shocked when they can get into it easily with a handheld as he wants to run it from his location for awhile to make sure all the bugs are out. His antennas are at the 350 foot level and only 20 miles west of us. I am afraid they will be disappointed when we go to the lower level. Thanks for all the advice. 73 John, W3ML
