It will work just fine for all the Mode B birds, if you reduce the boom length. I've done it, no issues at all. 73, N0AN

Hasan

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 4:19 PM Rich Gopstein via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:

I have an old 2mcp22 antenna that I would like to put up, but it's almost 20 feet long... Since I don't need that much gain for the current batch of satellites, I was wondering if I can use only one boom section and end up with a shorter 10 (2x5) element antenna.

Would that have any undesirable effects (other than reducing gain and increasing beam width)?

Thanks.

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