[50mhz] 6 meter ant

[Chris Boone]

I have a friend who owns a Dominator and it DOES cover with a good low SWR
across the entire band...and my NMO150 has covered 50-54 well for decades...
A LPDA could also cover 6 with good gain....but you would need to roll it
for polarization change...

Chris
WB5ITT

> -----Original Message-----
>   Nope, not without a big SWR jump... we were having this discussion on a
> repeater builder list last week. The 4 MHz width at 50 MHz is too broad to
> get one antenna to resonate well across the whole band. You'll need at
least
> two emitters, one tuned around 50.200, the other tuned around 52.00.
> Plus the fact that most of the stuff on the low end is
horizontally-polarized
> SSB
> or CW (or even AM), while the 52.00 spectrum is mostly FM and thus
> vertically-polarized.
> 
>   IMHO, of course. :-)  I'd like to see someone market a broadband 6m
> vertical myself. :-)