[TowerTalk] Interesting development

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

On 9/30/2013 9:37 PM, GARY HUBER wrote:
> We used to do something similar with commercial radios by putting a 
> gain antenna outside and high use low loss transmission line to 
> basement and interior spaces of large buildings where quarter wave 
> pick up antennas were used to couple with  handheld radios' antenna to 
> talk out to a repeater.
>

My shop is lined with bonded barn metal so it is naturally a poor place 
to work the local repeater unless you stand in the right place in 
relation to
> one of the two small windows.

So I decided to try the passive antenna route,  Two Diamond duo band 
antennas. One on a 14' pole on the N side of the shop and another 
centrally located inside the shop.  The outside antenna is normally 
hooked to the 144/440 rig in the shop.  I connected the two with 
LMR-400.  They absolutely did not work. Yet I could work the repeater 
connected only to  either antenna directly with the HT

73

Roger (K8RI)