[Antennas] Quick Question. I hope.

[DavidE Benedict]

CBoone at earthlink.net writes:
>Indoor antennas are always a pain....especially for 6m....2 should be easy
>to do BUT remember, an indoor antenna has a 12db loss compared to the same
>antenna outside!! 12db is a 20:1 power level.....IF you can run a single
>coax outside, try putting a 5/8wave antenna on a good ground plane (54in
>radials)....that will work on both 2 and 6mtrs and the higher the
>better...even a small RG58 run can be done through most windows
>thresholds...
>Likely you have some metal in the vicinity of the indoor antennas....or
>the
>ground plane is not sufficient...
>
>Chris
>WB5ITT
>(also running a 857D on 6 and 2 using a NMO150 on top of the company van
>;)


Hmmmm...where does that 12db loss come from just by being indoors?
...doesn't sound right.

My understanding is that 5/8 wave ant does not need radials or groundplane.

David B.
W7DBH -Mobile Only