Re: [amsat-bb] Quad Antennas?

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>
> > Has anyone ever tried using Quad antennas on 2m and 70cm to work a 
> satellite?
> >
>It's certainly possible, but I don't know if there is any thing as a CP
>quad.  Most sat ops use CP.  No reason you couldn't use a quad though.  They
>are a little more cumbersome than a Yagi, so that might make them less
>popular too.  And if you can't get CP in a single quad, you could certainly
>phase 2 of them to do it.

I am thinking of building a small trailer (12' long inside by 7' wide) that 
can be used as a demonstration ham station with hf and sat operations. I 
have figured out how to move the base part of the tracking sat antenna into 
and out of the trailer. The difficult part is how to transport the 2m and 
70cm antennas to the operations site. I have traditional cp antennas but 
they are too dangerous to hang from the inside ceiling of the trailer 
(elements would point down and hit people [and me!!]). If I could use plain 
yagis they could be tied almost flat to the ceiling during transport. I 
already have the 2.4g barbeque grill ant. If I used mast mount pre-amps and 
had 100w (2m), 75w (70cm), and 10w (1.2g) output power from the radio 
(IC-910H) would that be enough to compensate for not having cp antennas?

Les
W4SCO

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