I have had some success with vertical monobanders on all of the birds
including VO-52 and A0-7. I use a Ringo Ranger II on two meters and a
1/4 wave homebrew two meter groundplane for 70cm, which makes it 3 waves
long for 70cm. The main disadvantage I run into is that two different
antennas
As I currently live in an antenna-restricted subdivision, I have been
experimenting with low-profile antennas for a couple of years now. My
experience has been that verticals are iffy for a couple of reasons: not
enough gain at low elevations when the path is longest, a deep null above 40
At 02:35 AM 6/10/2011, John Geiger wrote:
Has anyone had success getting into VO52 using a vertical, omnidirectional
antenna on the uplink. I have a nice M2 2M9SSB for 2m but only have a
dualband J pole to cover UHF with and wonder if I could get into VO52 with
it for my uplink antenna.
I have
