has anyone ever built one of those coil form 5/8's wave 2m antennas for an
HT?
I have a design for one here somewhere maybe ill dig up and send into the
list...unless someone has a handy one?
The design i refer to uses a capacitor for tuning and a 5/8's lenth of wire
wound into a coil and either shrink wrapped or taped.
It has a 3 DB gain over a quarter wave which is what most rubber ducks are.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: 2 Meter Telescoping Antennas


> Help!  The magic smoke came out!
> --Lou, K2LKK
>
> At 09:34 PM 5/23/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >lol, I did try 45 watts in to a setup like that, that antenna is no more,
> >actually I still have that part but the loading coil actually melted,
oops,
> >didn't know the radio was in high power and I did the same as you.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:56 PM
> >Subject: Re: 2 Meter Telescoping Antennas
> >
> >
> >Hi to all.
> >
> >I agree with Anthony on all except the last point.  I think some of the
> >best HT antennas I have ever had have been aftermarket antennas.  I am
> >especially fond of the extended duckie antennas that approximate a
quarter
> >wave on 2 meters and a 5/8 wave on 70 cm.  These seem to outperform the
> >stock duckies that come with the radio, yet are still short enough that
> >they don't cream the connectors on my radios.   As for a half wave on 2
> >meters, why not just stick a crowbar in the top of your radio?  It will
be
> >just about as good for the connector.  I did, however, find one good use
> >for the AEA Hot Rod, and I am actually still using it.  I bought from AES
a
> >magnetic mount that was made by RF Products that had a few feet of RG58
> >terminated with a male BNC connector, with a female BNC connector on top
of
> >the magnetic mount.  I found that sticking the magnetic mount in the
middle
> >of an old pizza pan and sticking it up in my attic made a quick and dirty
> >emergency antenna that delivered excellent performance.  You wouldn't
want
> >to run one of the 45 watt radios into it as it would burn out the loading
> >network, but a 25 watt radio works fine on it.  I discovered this during
a
> >severe thunderstorm when I wanted to get word back to the SKYWARN net in
> >our area, but didn't want to risk using an outside antenna.  It took me
> >about two minutes to slap it together, and I was into the repeater which
> >was about 40 miles away with just an Icom IC2AT!  For those who don't
know,
> >that's a 1.5 watt HT.
> >
> >73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> >
> >
> >Louis Kim Kline
> >A.R.S. K2LKK
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>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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