[amsat-bb] Re: Other Sat ants

2009-06-05 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:50 -0600, Jerry Felts wrote: I was wondering is there a small 144/435 antenna? I'm open to ideas, trying to come up with something simple cheap and fast. It would be put at the 20ft level on my tower. At 25 ft level is a 9 el M2 2m yagi but its not at a angle. I like

[amsat-bb] Re: Other Sat ants

2009-06-05 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 10:12 -0400, Justin Pinnix wrote: How hard is it to reproduce the Elk in a homebrew? It's a log perioidic and all of the build your own articles I've found on the web are for yagis. Are the log periodic's dimensions more critical? Log periodics are somewhat fiddly. What

[amsat-bb] Re: Other Sat ants

2009-06-04 Thread Jim Jerzycke
While this may be heresy to some, I've used my terrestrial weak signal 2M and 70cm antennas many times for satellite QSO's. The 2M antennas is an M2 2M9, and the 70cm antenna is an M2 420-50-11. Each has an SSB USA preamp powered up the coax from my FT-847. They both work very well for weak