One question. is this antenna on a mountain top or high hill??? You used
the word valley in one of your posts. Could you require down tilt in the
antenna???
just a thought,
Scott
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At 04/16/1999 08:29 PM, you wrote:
From: NE2E@...
In a message dated 4/16/99 6:47:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
transcom@... writes:
<<
I have been watching some of the email in regards to these antennas, and
now I
have a question. We have a VHF repeater for our fire depts in our county.
Compared to using other ham repeaters on 2m, this repeater seems to very
deaf.
Would any characteristic of these exposed dipole antennas affect rx? This
repeater is all new and has been checked out several times, and I am making
the assumption that everything else is good.....I merely a 'user' on this
repeater.
RX is 156.165
TX is 150.995 >>
Have then lower the antenna and check it, since everything is new i would
check how the harness in the antenna was installed, maybe the installer to do
a neat installation cut some cable off the harness, .... also check how the
harness is connected to the folded dipoles because if its wrong it throws
everything (signal) out of phase and they will cancel each other signal....i
seen this before more then once and the swr was still Very low..
Exposed dipoles antennas properly installed perform great, better then the
its cousins enclosed in a fiberglass radome, in my opinion..
FRED
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