Hello. I am an older Ham and over the years I have had towers with beams HF-UHF-VHF .
Dipoles of all sorts. All have done me a good job. But that set up is no longer in my future.
But I have never tried a Vertical on 2 Meters or 440 Mhz. So I have had no real experience useing them.
Some years ago I moved and now live in an area.where I have a mountain to my south about 2 miles away, and what I would call a large ridge to my north, which I am right close to that. I guess you could call it a valley.
I am useing a small beam on 2 Meters that sits on my deck to check into some of the local nets which are East and Wesrt of me.
Pointing the beam up or down the valley works ok for that , out side of that I am quite limited.
Some fellow Hams close to me use verticals and seem to do much better reaching distance Repeaters.
So I thought I would try one . With the idea a vertical has a lower-angle of radiation I thought it may work better in my location. I have been doing some research on the different antennas out there.
I am looking in the 10 foot , plus or minus range.:
Duel Band Verticals:
COMET GP6 verticals seem to get alot of bad reviews on E-Ham , a few good/
MFJ 1524 has it share also----But not afraid to try.
Diamond X300A----Some pluses and minus also
Opek UVS-200----Some pluses and minus also
Hustler G6-270R----$200.00 Vertical----Not much on reviews for this one , looks solid ..
Some of these are DBI and some are DB on the gain ratings .
I have always leaned a little toward the DB rateings but have used the other rating also.
What are your thoughts on this group of verticales for my conditions ??
TNX
Dipoles of all sorts. All have done me a good job. But that set up is no longer in my future.
But I have never tried a Vertical on 2 Meters or 440 Mhz. So I have had no real experience useing them.
Some years ago I moved and now live in an area.where I have a mountain to my south about 2 miles away, and what I would call a large ridge to my north, which I am right close to that. I guess you could call it a valley.
I am useing a small beam on 2 Meters that sits on my deck to check into some of the local nets which are East and Wesrt of me.
Pointing the beam up or down the valley works ok for that , out side of that I am quite limited.
Some fellow Hams close to me use verticals and seem to do much better reaching distance Repeaters.
So I thought I would try one . With the idea a vertical has a lower-angle of radiation I thought it may work better in my location. I have been doing some research on the different antennas out there.
I am looking in the 10 foot , plus or minus range.:
Duel Band Verticals:
COMET GP6 verticals seem to get alot of bad reviews on E-Ham , a few good/
MFJ 1524 has it share also----But not afraid to try.
Diamond X300A----Some pluses and minus also
Opek UVS-200----Some pluses and minus also
Hustler G6-270R----$200.00 Vertical----Not much on reviews for this one , looks solid ..
Some of these are DBI and some are DB on the gain ratings .
I have always leaned a little toward the DB rateings but have used the other rating also.
What are your thoughts on this group of verticales for my conditions ??
TNX