ocwarren2000 wrote: > Er.. uh... Excuse me, but why all this commotion about painting > and preserving antennas??? > > If everyone used limited range, low gain, stacked folded dipoles, > then maybe so, but stacked folded dipoles are a low gain limited > range item.
A 4-bay stacked dipole array is 6dB gain. The largest fiberglass coaxial gain antenna made for VHF is about 5-6dB as well. And just about the same size. > I've seen them used in small towns with limited coverage Public > Safety fleets, and Local Paging, but only where limited range > coverage is required. > > When I worked in Mobile Radio Communications ALL Remote Base / > Repeater antennas were stacked coaxial antennas inside a tapered > Fiberglass radome (Station Master type?) and operated at DC ground, > with a properly grounded mount, which was realy a good lightning rod > as well, where there was never a problem, and at a normally 10 db > gain!! There are Internet aricles on building these.. 10 dB gain omni fiberglass coaxials are reserved for UHF and above. A 10 dB gain stick for VHF would be over 40' long.
