[amsat-bb] Homebrew Up-Dated Eggbeater Antenna

[Robert Bruninga]

NO84 is only 300 mW compared to 2W for the original PCSAT and 5W for the
ISS (currently).  You need gain to hear it...

If you want a non-moving fixed antenna to hear NO84, I'd try a 58"
vertical whip over a large metal ground plane.  This would give you up to
7 dBi above about 30 degrees.  Then you would hear it every day, but only
for the better passes above 25 degrees.  But you would hear it then.

And I modeled it in EZNEC and just a vertical over say 4 radials is not
the same thing.  That helps matching, but does not block the 3db part of
the pattern into the ground.  You need a real "ground plane" of a metal
roof, or about 6 feet or more of chicken wire.

Easy for me to say, because I have not built one yet...

Bob, WB4APR

-----Original Message-----
> Bummer!   I'm looking for some sort of an Omni ant to use with NO-84