Re: Running a Repeater on a FM Broadcast Tower
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Sorry, Didn’t catch it was UHF. We run a Commscope DB-420 on our D-Star repeater on 444 mHz. It has 16 bays and a 9.1 dbd gain figure. It is cut for 450-470, but has plenty of sweep to reach into the amateur 70cm band. Bad news it’s a $3000 antenna. We bought ours for about 10% of that. A short time ago I saw one still in the carton for $800 listed online, but it didn’t stay listed for long …
You might want to consider an antenna that’s more commercial grade, like a Comprod, Sinclair, or Commscope exposed dipole array in the 2 or 4 bay variety.
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