The real problem with using an amateur grade antenna is that you think it's
working fairly well. You just don't know how well it's really supposed to work
with a proper antenna.
Sort of like a digital repeater that has some desense. You think it's working
and that digital just doesn't quite
You can use a dual band antenna with a dipelxer and duplexers on each band but
there are trade-offs. When we first put up W6DHS, we were using a dual band
Comet 11dbi on 2 meters. We replaced the two meter side with a DB Products
dipole array 6dbd. We measured a 15db signal increase over
On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:59 PM, ErnestK wrote:
You can use a dual band antenna with a dipelxer and duplexers on each band
but there are trade-offs. When we first put up W6DHS, we were using a dual
band Comet 11dbi on 2 meters. We replaced the two meter side with a DB
Products dipole array