I homebrewed my antennas and it wouldn't have been that big a deal to make crossed yagi's for CP as far as the mechanical end of it went but for my first attempts at satellite, I went with linear polarization just for simplicity's sake. I do ok with them on LEO's but since I've never had the CP, I can't make a quantitive comparison. My biggest stumbling block with CP was figuring the length of phasing harnesses and such because I don't have the equipment to do so. Of course, if you're buying a set, I suppose all that's done for you. 73, Michael W4HIJ K8TB wrote:
As a reasonably long time licensed ham (40 years), but very new tosatellites, I would like to ask the brain trust whether CP antennas are really needed. I am ready to buy a set, but in poking around the net, I found this exchange by Mike , K6MYC, about not using CP antennas:
Look at http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/ant-nest.txt
Look towards the bottom, and Mike's replies are in caps.
I do not have the real estate for separate 144/432 antennas for terrestrial and sat. I have the az/el rotors.
So whats the thought on this? Should I just go with a pair of H-pol beams and leave well enough alone, or should I go with the CP antennas?
Tom Bosscher K8TB
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