Paul Holm wrote: > Reading the replies that mentioned gain specs, I can't help but think of our > last ham club meeting. An older member persuaded the club to replace the > VHF repeater antenna with a Diamond X500HNA rather than a DB-224 because the > Diamond "has 8.3 dB gain".
And even worse is that the rest of the club was stupid enough to listen... I got a story about a club here and link receivers...I've got a box with 3 UHF HT90's in it, rocked up ready to go, that I got stuck with the bill on after they decided to put in ham-grade rx's instead. -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL