[SixClub] [AR52MHZ] RE: Best 6m Mobile Antenna?

[kd4e]

What might one see from co-phasing a pair of 6m
mobile verticals (side by side vs the problematic
vertical stacking)?


> 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
> 
>>
>> 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
> 
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.Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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