I have one and discovered its resonance on 2 meters as well. I looked
it over and figured I'd experiment with it, so I attached a Radio
Shack HTX-212 to it. It worked and I used it for local repeater work
for several years.
My experience is if you keep the RF at 50 watts or less, it will work
for 2 meters. I have not tried it on any other band or higher power.
Pat
WB2GBF
AAR2BY/T
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:02 PM, r miles <greenacres113@charter.net> wrote:
> At a yard sale this past weekend I bought a Radio Shack 20-176a scanner
> antenna.
> I measured the vertical element & radials which turned out to be apx 19''. A
> quarter wave on 2M. Just for fun I used my MFJ249 & it's resonate at 147mhz.
> Under 1.75 over the 2M band. I wouldn't want to apply a lot of RF to this
> thing
> but a few watts might be OK. It might make a good "storm" antenna during bad
> WX
> using my HT. Anyone out there ever use one of these on transmit ?
>
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