[TowerTalk] Recommendations needed for 440 Repeater Antenna

[Mike, K6BR]

I got lucky with my MTR-2000 440 repeater, we are tied in to and using the
shared array on a commercial tower and it works very well, I could find out
what the antennas are if you are interested. I would be thinking not so
cheap:-)  All it costs is 100 bucks a year for the power.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
 
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Recommendations needed for 440 Repeater Antenna

Jeff I would try this question on the repeater-builder group. DB products
no longer has antennas for the 440 amateur band.

73, Joe


On 9/20/07, Jeff Carter <towertalk at hidden-valley.com> wrote:
>
> Well, it finally happened.  We got hit by lightning.  And it blew the
> antenna
> in half on the 444.325 machine here at the college.
>
> It wasn't a great antenna to begin with, obviously.  We'd like to go back
> with
> something much better.  We're thinking maybe a multibay folded dipole
> antenna
> of some sort with an omni pattern like the the DB 404, but if there's a
> better choice we'd love to hear it.
>
> There don't seem to be a lot of choices in antennas tuned for Amateur
> Repeaters.  Most of the ones we're seeing are Part 90 antennas (450-470
> MHz).
> I don't know how much trouble it would be to retune one or in the case of
> phased folded dipoles if it's even possible.
>
> What is the consensus Best UHF Repeater Antenna, considering all the above
> (omnidirectional, probably no more than 100 watts)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff/KD4RBG
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