Years ago, I used a cross dipole for ten with a screen under it. It had a bowl shaped pattern and worked pretty well. For fifteen used a "J pole made of twin lead from a tree. But as one poster noted when the bands were open you didn't need much. 73, Gary AA1UE On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 8:09:36 PM EDT, JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Did RS-12/13 require a directional antenna on uplink and/or downlink? Anybody want to speculate on what will be needed for these new HF sats?
I used a 2 element HF yagi for uplink and downlink (mostly because that's what was on-hand). I aimed the beam in a general North-South orientation but as I recall it didn't matter much which way it was pointed. Geeeze ... I was a youngster back then!
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
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