[Antennas] Kite Antenna

Ed Griffin egriffin at vnet.net
Tue May 2 19:53:56 EDT 2006


At 07:49 PM 5/2/2006, you wrote:
>An issue you may not have considered here is feed line loss.  On 2m, the 
>height would be great, but you will need light weight feed line that will 
>have tons of loss at long lengths.  At some point, the height advantage 
>will be off set by the feed line loss.
>Good luck,
>Dan




He's right, feed line loss and weight would be big factors to 
overcome.  Maybe you should just strap a HT, that will operate in 
cross-band repeat mode, to your kite.
73
Ed 




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