What frequency pair in 2m do you have? Have you thought about putting ss bollts through the bottoms and tops of the loops to bring the db-224a down in frequency? 73 de N5NPO Norm
----- Original Message ----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed Aug 19 08:40:31 2009 Subject: [Repeater-Builder] DB-224 Matching In my quest to get rid of desense with the Quantar, someone mentioned that having the 'wrong' antenna could make the desense worse. I've got a DB-224 - not the 'ham' version, but the 150-160 MHz version, and there is a bit of a mismatch. Has anyone ever had any desense that they could attribute to less than perfect matching? (I'm not talking about a gross problem, like one of the elements broken, etc) Has anyone built a 'tuner' for that version of the 224, so that the transmitter/duplexer pair would see a better SWR? If this thing ever gets up, it's gonna be perfect! :-) Thanks, Tim W5FN
