Instead of building eggbeaters, pick up a few of these:

http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-261

You'll also need a pair of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Coaxial-Cable-Female-SO239-PL259/dp/B00KQHH7VC

Hook those into your baofengs and you'll be just as effective on the Satellites as you would with some homemade 'beaters.

Good luck! 73!

-Dave, KG5CCI

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:38 PM David Swanson [email protected] wrote:

Instead of building eggbeaters, pick up a few of these:

http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-261

You'll also need a pair of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Coaxial-Cable-Female-SO239-PL259/dp/B00KQHH7VC

Hook those into your baofengs and you'll be just as effective on the Satellites as you would with some homemade 'beaters.

Good luck! 73!

-Dave, KG5CCI

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:19 PM Devin L. Ganger via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:

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Greetings, programs!

I'm looking to work with my son (who will be studying to get his Technician license later this month) on building a UHF/VHF pair of eggbeater antennas. I've found a few papers online, but does anyone have a good reference to a detailed design?

Does the ARRL Antenna book latest edition have any significant coverage of eggbeaters at all? I have an older version that has nothing.

Also, most of the designs I see are for a single band. If you're deploying a pair for satellite operations, do you simply attach them through a duplexer? I have a Diamond MX-72N that I picked up a while ago for using with dual Baofengs, but it's been sitting in my drawer since I picked up my TH-D72A. It has a 1.6~150MHz lead and a 350~460MHz lead.

Thanks in advance for any pointers you might have.

-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected]mailto:[email protected] web: Devin on Earthhttp://www.devinonearth.com/ cell: +1 425.239.2575

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