Response;
I'm currently using a Diamond antenna up at my repeater site which I
had packed into a commercial radome. I did have to narrow (grind
away) the hub of the diamond antenna where the ground radials had
previously mounted to. It is a must that you rebuild the ground
radials on the outside aluminum sleeve of the radome. I initially
tried without the ground radials, the match looked great, but the
performance definitely. I shoved the entire Diamond antenna into the
radome, so now the antenna effectively has two radomes. Now there's
no dinky obvious wet noodle amateur radio antennas up at the
commercial site, the antenna blends right in. You gotta love it.
Paul Metzger
K6EH
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Yup, I've packed a Diamond antenna
On Oct 7, 2007, at 18:07, georgiaskywarn wrote:
Has anyone ever done this? Unfortunately the radome I was playing
with this weekend had no room to push the bottom of the Diamond
x3200 past the sleeve at the bottom. This is a Andrews 900mhz
antenna (or the radome of). SWR was pretty high within the new
radome. Put it back in the old one...swr was ok...but not great.
Compromise antenna anyway ;-) Curious if anyone has ran into this
and what you did for the coupling sleeve...or if it was just the
radome itself. I have an older type of Stationmaster I could
use...but man is it long compared to the x3200.
Thought about using the Canusa (http://www.repeater-builder.com/
tech-info/canusa.html) that Kevin spoke of before like a big
"condom" on the thing. Anyone tried that with success?
