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2 meter mobile antenna?
Ive been using a 1/4 wave micro magmount my friend lent me which is great for repeaters and stuff, but i want a bloody good mobile 2m antenna, any info on good uns be great. also the other night i was up a hill and heard someone in ireland and someone in north wales chattin? i think the irish chap said he was using a repeater but it shocked me that i could hear them both on a 1/4 wave micro mag?? would it of been skip? its a long way down to Amesbury in wilts?
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Re: 2 meter mobile antenna?
Unlikely Paddy, probably repeaters. You can work Australia through repeaters 
I've used several 2m mobiles, the best I've had is the Diamond (?) cant remember the mosdel I'll dig it out, still got yhe packet somewhere buts its a centre loaded whip dual bander. Works as far as any 2m mobile would when driving
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Re: 2 meter mobile antenna?
Its the NR-7700 (I think, couldnt find the packaging)
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17/Mar/2009, 2:31 pm
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Re: 2 meter mobile antenna?
wouldn't worry to much about the 2mtr mobile as you can work via the repeaters as dave says??
just need to be close enougth to access them??
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17/Mar/2009, 9:37 pm
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Re: 2 meter mobile antenna?
dx on 2 metres isnt unknown!! a friend of mine made leicester to newcastle recently. 150 miles as the crow flies
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16/Apr/2009, 5:22 pm
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Re: 2 meter mobile antenna?
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dx on 2 metres isnt unknown!! a friend of mine made leicester to newcastle recently. 150 miles as the crow flies
Wooohoo!
Sorry to be flippant but VHF just doesn't do it for me. I've done some SOTA stuff and can get better distance with a CB radio than a 2m set. (When I get a coherant response, which is rare on 27/81 )
I know stations who work EU on 2m SSB with 12 ele beams etc. But thats far too much effort for such small return in my book. Also, and absolutely no offence meant here to those who are into it, but 2m ops are a breed amoungst themselves, some of them truly sound like quintscential amateur radio people, like trainspoter type staticatto squeaky voices
And repeaters? Thats not DX is it? Echo link and other internet based "radio" for 2m doesn't count as DX surely? I know its another aspect to the hobby, and good luck to all who are into it, not me, I have had a play, rented the tee shirt for a while and tried it, but not quite the same as 23 division on 27385 LSB with ESSB audio on a Saturday afternoon, now thats a buzz
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Re: 2 meter mobile antenna?
your absolutely right about vhf/uhf, not a dx thing.
and as for speaking to VK through internet based links is a poinless exersize, the same as people who use 1.5kw on HF, you may aswel call them on the house phone!!
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mind you its the hf stuff i want to get experimenting with, the 2m stuff is just tying me over til i unpack my other radios 
i wonder if they do any out of band stuff, 555 perhaps 