chiefsfan wrote: > Our city PD is responsible for security at the airport which is 9 miles from > the city and thier vhf repeater. They are having trouble getting into the > repeater from inside the building but can reach ok outside the building. Does > the group think a passive repeater might do the job for them with a yagi on > the roof and a short piece of good quility coax and a quarter wave in the > building? > Are you talking about inside a concourse? If so, I would use a pair of yagis pointed up and down the length instead of an omni. Or one yagi at each end pointed towards the middle, with a sepearate donor antenna on each. And in any event, the more gain on both antennas, and the less loss in the coax, the better.
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