[SixClub] Best 6m Mobile Antenna?

[Chris Boone]

Doc,
You cannot run a GAIN antenna on lowband VHF (6m) unless you want it to hit
any branch, wire, etc (and Im not talking low lying)...
A 5/8wave on 6m (which is a good stacking distance on horizontal antennas)
is a 1/4wave on 15m!!!!! Think about it.....

On 6m a single loop like a Halo or Squalo or PAR OmniAngle will work for
most decent SSB work.....of course if you could get it where its 54inches
off the roof line, you would be ok...Of course when the band opens, who
cares... A Larsen NMO150 works real good on 6 and covers the entire band (I
have the SWR readings to prove that ;) 

As for FM, if you plan to run FM, I suggest a radio with a WORKING Noise
Blanker like a commercial lowband rig such as a Midland SyntechII, etc...the
only amateur rig for 6m only that has a NB that works ON FM as well as SSB
is my FT690R...the 680R may do the same but I have never had my hands on
one...
MOST late model FM ham gear on 6m do NOT have Noise Blankers...and
regardless of what their engineers may say, FM DOES need a Noise Blanker (IF
you don't, then WHY does the VX6000 Vertex Standard (Yaesu's parent
company!) have a WORKING NB in it?????? DUH!!!!

Gain is good for the home station but on the mobile station, you cant do it
on 6 unless you want to take out the street lights, etc ;)
For "local" 6m SSB coverage, you want to be horiz.....if the band opens, it
doesn't really matter....

Chris
WB5ITT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sixclub-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sixclub-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of kd4e
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 10:13 PM
> To: World Wide Six Meter Club; AR52MHZ at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [SixClub] Best 6m Mobile Antenna?
> 
> I'd like to discover what y'all have experienced
> and/or heard to be the best 6m mobile antenna.
> 
> I am talking something with gain, perhaps dual
> verticals or stacked 1/4 wave delta loops, or ...
> 
> Also, given all of the noise when mobile - from
> the vehicle and from everything around it - is
> FM really a preferred mobile mode for 6M?
> 
> --
> 
> .Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E