Can anyone ID this for me please?
The bottom ground planes are my addition (I assume it had some originally).
The length from the bottom to the spiral coil is about 1m but longer than that above... Ihave it tuned to an SWR 1:1 on 145MHz at 50ohms.
2m antenna identity
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Re: 2m antenna identity
It looks similar to a Ringo Ranger although it's slightly different.
Where at the antenna is the coax feed?
Where at the antenna is the coax feed?
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Re: 2m antenna identity
It's fed straight up the bottom ---- Oooerkilimax wrote:It looks similar to a Ringo Ranger although it's slightly different.
Where at the antenna is the coax feed?
I assume the top element is 5/8 or 3/4 for 2m????
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Re: 2m antenna identity
The Ringo appears to be fed mid point so end fed rules that out. The phasing coil mid way up suggests perhaps a double 5/8
Certainly familiar looking but haven't found anything in the short look I've had on the usual websites.
Certainly familiar looking but haven't found anything in the short look I've had on the usual websites.
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Re: 2m antenna identity
kilimax wrote:The Ringo appears to be fed mid point so end fed rules that out. The phasing coil mid way up suggests perhaps a double 5/8
Certainly familiar looking but haven't found anything in the short look I've had on the usual websites.
Well thanks for having a go... it certainly seems to work well but my analyser doesn't cover UHF so I'm a bit stumped on that side of thing.
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