[VHFcontesting] Bird/CD element question re 432 mhz

[Buddy Morgan]

 My experience is that you will have considerable loss of accuracy at 23 cm, with an E element. Really the Bird slugs for 23 cm are not that accurate. They tend to read low. Above a E slug, in frequency, go with a real power meter. I have never noticed any appreciable difference between the D slugs and the E slugs, on 70 cm. 


Buddy WB4OMG

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Fox via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
To: vhfcontesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 28, 2015 9:57 pm
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Bird/CD element question re 432 mhz


Gents:
Trying to decide whether to pick up a D or E series element to go with
my 43 for my 432 station. 
I recently added an aftermarket PEP board, and will
have between 150-200 watts out of a TE 4452 amp.
Since I already have several C
series elements that cover 2/220 well, it seems to make sense to consider the E
series so I would then be able to measure up to
1 ghz and probably 1.2 with
some loss of accuracy.

The second question here is whether to get a 250 or
500 element as the price is the same?

Thoughts please from those who have
been down this road already........


Don 
N8ECH


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