I'm helping my son in law on the air. He has his gen ticket, he just bought a
Yaesu ft 8800 (Vhf/Uhf). Because dollars are tight we decided to build a j pole
antenna until he can afford a better antenna. We built it using 1/2 inch
copper. Here at my house about 4 feet off the ground, using a bird 4410 meter,
and his radio, swr shows about 1.2:1 on vhf and about 1.5:1 on 70cm. We can get
into repeaters from all over. Great huh? When I took it to his house we
couldn't access any repeater. I checked the swr again and nothing changed. I
tried different coax, different location, higher up (up to 12 feet). Elevation
made a little difference but nothing to write home about. A Comet mobil antenna
performed better then the j pole.Any ideas?Thanks
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