Actually, I built a home brew preamp and used it with an arrow handheld antenna and a Yaesu FT-50R and it worked wonderfully. I had fully quieting of the pass while pointing the antenna and almost as good of a signal while I laid the antenna on the hood of my truck. The pass had a max of 43 degrees ......
I use the preamp often and it works great.
Paul KB3NDS
On 5/3/07, Paul Luggar [email protected] wrote:
With an arrow and a handheld there should be no need of a preamp unless the feeder is really long. It would likely overload the handheld anyway...
73
Paul Luggar
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Davis" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 6:09 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Preamp
A friend of mine asked me today for a recommendation for a preamp to use with a handheld and Arrow antenna for AO-51. Since I don't generally use the FM sats I couldn't make a recommendation but thought I would ask here.
Thanks,
73,
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