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From: Arnie Pfingst <arnie123@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:41:19 -0800
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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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