Hi, Jim... I'm trying to do the same thing, to cover the interior of a
6-floor building
with a LMR VHF repeater, and I tried suggesting a 1/4 wave mounted upside down
as you suggested, and the Motorola guy scratched his head and said "WTHeck?"
He was still trying to sell me a DB224 to cover the inside of the building. :-(
Thanks for the confirmation!
_Ray_ KBØSTN
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Brown
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] KENWOOD TKR 750 Installation and
problems-HELP!!
One suggestion is to go to a simple ground plane antenna, and mount it upside
down on top of your terminal building. The gain in an antenna will concentrate
the radiation out on the horizon, which is not what you want. The upside down
ground plane with no gain might be your best bet to have local coverage and
have coverage directly beneith the antenna.
73 - Jim W5ZIT
