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Just for your information my antenna is mounted in the center of a 22 inch Dish 500 system. This puts the center at 11 inches and it does make it very directional.
I use a rotator and it pounds a good signal downtown from my high up North side Radio Station. I did no tuning on the dish...
baublitz
10/1/10
Hi this is Baublitz again Radio KI7YF....I think you will find that a small satellite dish is a good reflector and thats about all you need to worry about.
Just make sure that the small center loaded or base loaded antennas you are using are tuned up well.
Then you...
I took the receiver module off of the small satellite dish and mounted a small center loaded mobile antenna on the existing bracket by drilling a 3/8" straight down.
It works so well around Carson City, Nevada that everybody wants me to build them one.
Dick Baublitz KI7YF
blitz@pyramid.net
verticle radiator length?
I have a super penetrator and I want to set the verticle radiator back to factory specs for ch (19).
My problem is that I loaned it to a ham buddy and he shortened the verticle radiator for (10) meters and forgot to mark it where I had it set for a good match for...
I need to know how long the verticle radiator needs to be to set it for channedl 19 or 27.185.
It was set for the ten meter band on 28.400, so mathimatically that shows to lengthen it (7) inches.
I did so and it has a very high swr.
How long should the vertical radiator be? It is now at 17...
I think it's got to be the radio.
Can you send it back and get another one to try?
I got a bogis two meter from radio shack once and the next one was ok.
Might be in the radiddio.....
Dick Baublitz
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