[50mhz] Newcomer

[Christopher Boone]

Jason,
what you have will work when the band is open...but for best all around 
use and local contacts (out to a few hundred miles) when the band is NOT 
open, I would suggest a horizontal antenna like a PAR, M-Squared or 
similar (halo, squalo, etc).....you will make a lot more contacts when 
the band is not open that way.

FM/rptrs use vertical and for 52.525 simplex, the CS50 will do excellent 
at all times....SSB, AM, CW and other weak signal modes are horizontal.. 
when the band opens, the polarization is skewed by reflections and 
really won't matter...but under normal conditions, you have a 20db loss 
of signal because of cross pol & that's a POWER difference of 100 to 1!

Hope to work you on the band!

73 and welcome to the Magic Band!

Chris
WB5ITT
EL 29 Houston

Jason Vierik - KC8SZU wrote:
> Hello all, I am new to 6 Meters...  I plan on running mobile alot this year from Michigan.  I drive for a living and mobile is best for me..  Any suggestions on making contacts?  I run an FT-897 running 100 watts into a Cushcraft CS-50 mag mount.  

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