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I made this antenna using a design by ea4cyq, it is quite easy to make and will only take a few hours to complete. It is placed at some distance in this case about 30 meters from the eggbeater antenna so that the signal received on the smeter does not exceed s9. The vhf uhf eggbeater antenna revisited on6wg f5vif. This app does nothing more than the standard 468freq mhz type calculations. Describe your experience with the m2 eb432 eggbeater satellite antenna and tell us why you give it the rating you did required. Hf dipole antenna this antenna software will help you design a simple wire dipole antennas for 1 30 mhz. A low noise preamp gain only amplify what it is given. However, the resulting impedance at the overall antenna feed point a simple fixed antenna for. Shown below are the constructional details of the eggbeater antenna i built.
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