On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Jacob Suter wrote: > I thought the prefered poor-man's repeater antenna was a J-pole?
Single folded dipole IMO. > Out of curiosity - are the 'square dipole' (or 'gapped loop' or whatever > they want to call them) antennas usable for repeater use? Example: > http://www.hamuniverse.com/loop.htm Add an 'l' on the end of that. > I've seen a 'hamsexy' Explorer around these parts (East Texas) with a > stack of these on the roof at various frequencies. I personally dislike > vertical antennas on cars (at best they generate wind noise, at worst > they hit things and get bent/broken) these look like a decent option for > truck/SUV use, assuming the other side is hpol too or you're willing to > put up with the x-pol losses. It's horizontal-only and you've just found one of the few operators who probably works CW or SSB mobile. M-squared makes several bands of these. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst
