hi Eric
Iam also use a homebrew QFH Antenna
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207382996000535&set=pcb.102073...
from http://jcoppens.com/ant/qfh/calc.en.php
receive is a very good in 2M band for amateur satellite, and also in 70CM
see the antena for your reference.
Rgds Dirgan YE0EEE
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Eric Christensen eric@christensenplace.us wrote:
On 03/01/2016 10:11 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
I have the UHF model. It lives on a magnet base stuck to the side of the
AC air handler in my garage, and I hang my yard work hat on it. It was worse than a 2m 1/4 wave whip on receive on AO-51.
Thanks, Drew (and everyone else that responded). I just need to figure out how to get those M2 yagis up in the air, really.
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