Ill be honest, it looks like junk. Its nothing more than a 1/4 wave vertical over a 4 radial counterpoise. If you wanted to build your own it would be very simple and cost only a few dollars.
Your money would be better spent getting a Diamond or Commet base antenna: http://www.rfparts.com/diamond/Product_Catalog/base_station.html http://www.cometantenna.com/ if you are looking to make weak signal contacts on SSB, a horizontally polarized antenna such as the M2 HO loops would do well: http://www.m2inc.com/products/uhf/70cm/432holoop.html If you want to do weak signal and satellite work, consider the M2 Eggbeater antennas http://store.fastcommerce.com/m2incshopcom/satellite-package-1-eb144-eb432-c rossboom-ff8081812f4359f1012fb1bbff7f5354-p.html Of course, for weak signal work, a beam is preferred, but I have made contacts over 500 miles with my 70cm HO loops during band openings. -Greg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William H. Fite Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:47 PM To: FlexRadio Reflector; [email protected] Subject: [Flexradio] Antenna query Please forgive me for going off topic here but is anyone familiar with this antenna? http://www.gopherlink.com/DeltaXray/vhfUHFant.htm Opinions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
