Good freaking grief! Are you kidding me? AMSAT-BB is why I have more "crow's feet."
It's -his- money. The last paragraph actually states that he was making SSB and FM contacts. Does it -matter- if he uses a preamp on FM, SSB, or freaking two cans and a string?
Joel, W4JBB
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Clint Bradford clintbradford@mac.comwrote:
I read that article, and when I got to the last of it and he mentioned that he was using a pre-amp for working the FM birds, I wondered out loud: "Why???"
We're working '27, '50, and '51 with HTs and meager antenna improvements. Better yet, build a tape measure Yagi - you can realize great gain with about six bucks of parts. Note that I haven't mentioned, "Buy a pre-amp" anywhere. I was considering building one of those antennas mentioned in QST last month - until I read that he was using a pre-amp.
I'll just stick with what works for me ... home-brew or commercial Yagis ... a log periodic every now and then ... and no pre-amp anywhere.
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