I've got oodles of RG-62 coax.... shoot me an address and a buck or two for postage & I'll send you a couple of feet....
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "jonny 290" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:27 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Thoughts on alternative eggbeater build/feeding
Ye olde bird nerds,
I was sketching out some plans to rebuild my practically-failed Eggbeater antenna project for 70cm, as I am tired of cranking the rotator knob every pass and want to try out a good omni satellite antenna, which I can hang from the top limb of a tree 30 feet above my shack window (best option on my city lot).
My plan is to build on the K5OE Eggbeater II antenna. One thing that's always bugged me about these antennas is that most are implemented using a 93 ohm coaxial section to phase the loops. This is hard stuff to find, and though I know some hams say, "anything below 1.5 SWR is OK", I'm a perfectionist and want to try to polish it up.
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