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|    mark lewis to Ed Vance    |
|    building an antenna    |
|    15 Jun 19 11:07:24    |
      REPLY: 9584.fi_ham@1:2320/105 2169a5bf       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5d0509b3       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15        On 2019 Jun 14 20:56:00, you wrote to me:               EV> I used a piece of 300 Ohm Twin Line cable to make a Folded Dipole Antenna              the problem with that is it is flat and you have to rotate it to be broadside       to the station you are wanting to pick up... i'm looking to build an       omnidirectional one so i do not have to rotate the antenna at all...              i think i wrote unidirectional previously but i meant omnidirectional :/               EV> a bit over 26 Centimeters long for UHF Channel 32 back in the 1960's.              26cm? like 10.25 inches? that seems a little short but it is half-wave...               EV> Channel 32 uses the Band of Frequencies from 578 Mc. to 584 Mc.              yeah, the UHF band is 470mhz to 890mhz... your freqs there are pretty close to       right in the middle which is 683mhz...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... Enquiring minds couldn't care less!       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/2 18/0 200 116/116 123/0 25 50 120 150 755 135/300       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 30 40 700 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 226/16 17 227/114       SEEN-BY: 227/400 229/200 312 354 426 728 1014 240/1120 1634 2100 5138       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 8001 8002 249/206 317 400 261/38 280/2000 5003       SEEN-BY: 280/5006 5268 292/854 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 340/800 342/200 393/68 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119 3634/0       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 15 24 27 50 119       PATH: 3634/12 154/10 221/6 1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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