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Re: [TowerTalk] vhf/uhf antenna mounting help please

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] vhf/uhf antenna mounting help please
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:43:24 -0800
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In general, where one is a receiving antenna for a repeater, it is usually given the advantage of height, over the transmitting antenna, which can compensate with greater output power.

73, Jim K9YC

On 1/24/2026 9:25 PM, wa9wsj via TowerTalk wrote:
You mention vertical separation, I remember reading about that a long time ago. 
My old memory bank forgot. Of coarse one antenna would be at the top of the 
mast, but how far off to the side should the other be mounted?


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