Jackie,
I built mine10 years ago and it has served me well. I earned my VUCC Satellite with it. As someone else said, it was designed with multi bands in mind.
It's a great design. I built mine for under $20.00. the biggest expense was the shipping for the caps for the diplexer, which couldn't be sourced locally.
Get out and make some Q's
73 Rick Tejera (K7TEJ) Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.W7TBC.org
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org On Behalf Of Jackie Dander via AMSAT-BB Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2020 5:07 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] dual band vhf/uhf antenna
I built the combination dual band 2meter/70cm antenna found at WA5VJB's webpages. I chose the 5 elements on UHF forward and 2 elements on VHF rear. All elements are in the same plane. I now read elsewhere that in-same-plane uhf/vhf elements can interfere with each other. I visited the Arrow website and see their LEO antennas are opposing for uhf/vhf. My question is if i made a mistake building the uni-plane version? Why did WA5VJB has such success? _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb