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What 2m antenna??

right, i'm after a decent 2m antenna and there is so many around with all diferent gain figures i dont know whats best(apart from going by price?). I suppose a dual band would best suit just so if i get the urge i can try it out up there. I think in time i will try and build a beam for a bit of ssb on 2m but that wont be straight away, so wats wat with 2m antennas?

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Watson W-300 is good alround colinear antenna for 2m/70cms. But for DX you'll need a beam, but try it first emoticon

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theres a chap goin qrt not far from me who has one of those on ebay, collection only. I have had a bid on it so i'll wait n se how the bidding goes Dave. Wasnt sure what to get as they all quote gain figures that mean nothin to me. Deffo going to try building a beam for 2m, i got to really or i will have no use for my medium/lightweight rotator emoticon

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I built a 2m beam from copper pipe, still have it here, worked brilliantly, but I'm not a big 2m fan and VHF lifts are rarer than hens teeth atm emoticon

What rotator do you have Paddy?


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i dont know what model it is Dave but its a hirschmann, its packed away in a box at mo but i,m sure there is some info on the bottom of the controller, just numbers or something. I took it all apart and greased everything inside and checked it worked, want to take controller apart and just grease up moving parts and wd40 the rest of it. I dont think it would last long turning 11m beams

*edit*i will take some pics of it when i finally unpack it emoticon

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I use a lightweight TV rotator for £30 turning my 4 element beam emoticon works no problems, been up since November 07.

I put it up figuring I would change it if it broke, and it hasn't yet emoticon Went a bit loose for a while but a bit of a service and its fine now emoticon

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i'm not too sure i will be using a beam for 11m, i think i'm goin to stick with a antronn 99 and radial kit on a 20 foot pole at bottom of garden. The 2m antennas will probably be higher than the 11m vertical but i wont be using it for groundwave. I'm hoping to get antennas for the lower bands if you know what i mean using my 2m mast as a center point(lighter antennas higher up)

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Hopefully there's a picture of the mark 2 Moxon above.....17 metre band and this one's 6 metres wide and turned by an ickle Yaesu G250.

See how you fare on HF Paddy before you waste too much effort on 2 m and 70 cms....two completely different camps I'm starting to realise with 2 metre users around here being a bit too shy to call on HF.....happy to talk about what they can hear but not joining in...I go blundering straight in emoticon cheers,Dave.

Jeez,sorry about the size of that piccie.....can anyone retrospectively shrink it please?

Edit no.2 Build a J pole antenna Paddy,it's cheap and works well,can be made dual or triple band too.....mines in the loft but I can work to Verwood just north of Bournemouth using 2.5 watts from my ancient FT290R mk 1.

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Dave(GB82)i think you will have to resize pic where ever your hostin it, photobucket usually lets you resize them.... Blimey its grown,, ahem the antenna! wwhat do the neighbours think? or have you tactfully avoided them? emoticon I'm not too intrested in 2m FM although it will be nice just to get hold of some old CB chums around the area, i would like to experiment on SSB 2m with beams and maybe multiple beams or silly amount of element beams. BUT i am way more intrested in HF and trying out diferent things on there, also tryin a bit of out of band stuff emoticon I just need to get all set up so i can transmit before i find my favourite bands, i can be around at strange times of day and night so i'm not sure yet what bands it will be but i think 80 and 40 will be my first antena/s just because i have done most my earwiggin on those. who knows??? as soon as the radio room is decorated i will know more emoticon

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A Watson-300 is a good all round 2m and 70cm omni directional antenna, it's about 9ft tall, if you are going to go for SSB activity I would suggest a beam of some description mounted horizontally. emoticon

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