• ANTENNA

    From JIM MUNDEN@1:10/345 to ALL on Tue Jul 4 23:40:42 2000
    Greetings! Any antenna gurus out there?
    I would like to know if there is a performance advantage to using a
    j-pole or super j-pole rather than a vertically-mounted dipole, on 2
    meters. I am also seeking info on turnstile antennas for 2m and 70cm.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks and 73's de Jim.
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  • From TOM WALKER@1:202/801 to JIM MUNDEN on Thu Jul 6 23:37:32 2000
    Greetings! Any antenna gurus out there?
    I would like to know if there is a performance advantage to using a
    j-pole or super j-pole rather than a vertically-mounted dipole, on 2 meters. I am also seeking info on turnstile antennas for 2m and 70cm.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.


    Don't know anything about urnstile antennas but the J-Pole will give
    you an advantage over the plain Dipole. the J-Pole exibits some Gain
    where as teh Diploe is a Unity Gain antenna.
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:3821/33 to Jim Munden on Wed Jul 5 17:58:00 2000
    Greetings! Any antenna gurus out there?

    Hello, Jim...

    I'm really not an antenna guru, but did want you to know someone was in here.
    The main moderator, Ivy Iverson, is temporarily away from this echo, for personal committments outside FIDOnet...and she's more knowledgeable about antennas than I am. I'm not sure when she'll be back in, as I've been recovering from major dental surgery last week...and have been trying to slowly
    work my way back on the air.

    Since I'm just a Technician, and where I am has a tendency to get a lot of lightning hits when thunderstorms are around, I just have a magmount antenna here in the shack. But, I had to move it away from the computer, as I was getting too much QRM when I tried to access packet. Granted, I could do better with an outside antenna, but I really don't want all that hassle...since I don't have much time to do on the air work anyway...except for my weekly traffic nets here in Little Rock.

    Basically, from what I've seen...if you can get by with a smaller, less bulky
    antenna...that's a better route to go with. Again, I'm not an antenna guru (neither am electronically minded, for that matter)...but I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.

    Good luck, and 73!!

    Daryl, N5VLZ

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