hi, I use a simple 30 dollar radio shack vertical scanner antenna on short 15 feet of 9913 cable and an arr preamp for uhf recieve and a regular low gain vhf vertical for transmit. These work quite well on the fm satellites where I start getting workable receive when the satellite is 10 to 20 degrees above the horizon and higher. Both antennas are connected to a duplexer and then to my ft8800r dual band fm rig. pat, n2oeq

------- Original Message ------- From : Jacob Tennant[mailto:k8jwt@comcast.net] Sent : 3/19/2010 7:44:32 AM To : AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Cc : Subject : RE: [amsat-bb] Simple antennas

Could anyone give me some advice on using a setup consisting of the smaller

antennas such as K5OE Eggbeaters, dual-crossed MOXON's from ARRL site.

I am starting to build the dual-crossed MOXON setup as I am running into some snags getting my planned bigger antenna setup installed as well as I was hoping to use the smaller antenna setup for a Field Day setup but don't want to wait till that day to use them and look like a fool!!!!

Would even consider the quadrifilliar antennas if I could find the plans for both bands?

Jacob Tennant - K8JWT

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