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#2 Meter J-Pole Antenna...	Reply
by KC0OHP on November 2, 2003	Mail this to a friend!
Question.. How good are the 2 meter j-pole antenna for 2 meter's? Will it cover the entire 2 meter band? Or it limited only to a section of 2 meter's? For 2 meter operation. What kind of swr would you expect on this type of ant system? How hig should it be located to be very affect? Can it be used for cw, ssb, fm too? Are used mainly for fm etc? Also what type of coax feedline should be used also for this J-Pole antenna? Thanks again from all who have given me a lot of help in the past..Thanks!! Any information about the 2 meter J-Pole Antenna appreciated... Dwight..KC0OHP...

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by WB2WIK on November 3, 2003	Mail this to a friend!
Bandwidth depends a lot on the materials used to build it; a j-pole made of 2" diameter copper tubing will have more bandwidth than one made out of 300 Ohm twin lead, but they are both "j-poles." Use any sort of coax to feed a j-pole. Obviously, 50 Ohm coax is preferred since most of our rigs and test instruments are designed for 50 Ohms. The "fatter" the coax is, the less loss it will have. The SWR of a j-pole is up to YOU, and not the manufacturer. J-poles have an adjustable matching transformer built into their designs, and that can be adjusted at any time in the field by moving the feepoints on the two vertical elements up and down. So, you can make the SWR whatever you want it to be, and make it "dip" at any frequency you want -- by your own adjustment. Normally, a j-pole will cover 2 MHz of the two meter band with a reasonably low SWR (like 1.5:1 or so). You select which 2 MHz you want it to cover! Although any antenna can be used on any mode, normally a j-pole, being a vertically polarized antenna, would be used for FM work only (including voice and packet) because SSB-CW operators (and ops using other digital modes besides packet) are using horizontal polarization. There is a great deal of "cross polarity loss" when you use a vertical antenna to contact horizontally polarized stations, so for SSB-CW work, it pays to put up a separate (horizontal) antenna. WB2WIK/6

RE: #2 Meter J-Pole Antenna...	Reply
by WB6BYU on December 19, 2003	Mail this to a friend!
Most of the J-poles I have used will cover the whole 2m band with a reasonable SWR.

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