The base antennas? yeah, I have a diamond X200 on my house I use daily and 
love it. the club I'm president of actually put one on our repeater for 6 
months and it even worked incredible, really showed us how bad the old 
repeater antenna was. I have a diamond X50A I use for special events with 
the clubs, as does almost everyone in 1 of the clubs I"m in and we can't say 
enough good about them. I also have another one on the vent pipe on my roof 
that works great which I use once in a while for 2 meters but actually, I 
use that one for GMRS since the SWR isn't really all that bad on it up 
there. I also know a couple repeaters using the diamond X300 that have great 
coverage in the area. I know a couple people using the X500 as well, or 510, 
what ever the real expensive one is now, but unless you're doing a ton of 
simplex and not in the best spot, I don't think you'd notice much difference 
over the x300 or 200. I know I tried both here as an experiment and reached 
the conclusion that I"m just getting as far out on 2 meters as I'm going to 
get with the height and all, actually out of the X50A, but I do some simplex 
so I went right in the middle at the time and got the X200 which I have yet 
to be sorry for.  I use diamond antennas only on my UHF/VHF for the most 
part after trying a few others over the years.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:31 AM
Subject: diamond uhf/vhf


> Hi;
> Happy new year to everyone.
> Has anyone used any of the diamond verticals for 2 meters and 440? If so,
> which ones and were you happy with the performance?
> Richard
>