[Antennas] Hustler CGT-144 2m mobile antenna

[Dan Richardson]

At 08:17 AM 11/1/2003, Eric wrote:
>Before you spend any money on a dual-band antenna or diplexer, use a
>good antenna analyzer to view the SWR and Return Loss at both 2m and
>70cm on your existing antenna.  You may be pleasantly surprised to see
>that your 2m antenna is also resonant at 70cm, since the latter is at
>the third harmonic of the former.


There is one very important caveat; when using a =BC-wave 144 MHz whip on=
 440=20
MHz it becomes a 3/4-wave whip. As such it will have a very strong high=20
angle component. That's fine if you want to talk to airplanes but for=20
toward the horizon communications (which most of us want) its performance=20
will be poor.

There is more to a good working antenna system that concentrating solely on=
=20
matching and/or resonance.

73
Danny, K6MHE