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What kind of antenna is this?

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What kind or type of antenna is this?
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That appears to be a gamma tuned dipole. How long the radials are would tell you what band it would be for. I'm guessing vhf high. 73, n9zas
 

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Yeah, it does but its hard to tell the length in the photo so who knows ... 73, n9zas
 

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I will get the length of it and post the measurements on here.
 

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An SO-239 is .625" dia, so measuring the one in the picture on my computer screen and dividing by the length of half the element I come up with about 22" or 44" for the entire element. There is some distortion in the picture but that clearly makes it a VHF high band dipole and probably near 2m.

A dipole like this is usually from a 2-bay or 4-bay dipole array and rarely used by itself. I have both a tunable commercial and fixed frequency amateur Cushcraft dipole array and also a Maxrad and the construction of this one is different. It is made by one of the other lower tier mfrs and could be a Laird or Antenex.
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178Mhz is definitely higher than anything I would use. Be perfect if it was in the 155Mhz range!
 

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You could easily make it a bit longer by adding some tubing on the ends 36" total length for 156.0000...
 
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