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dpatrick51

Post subject: ? ground plane for base 800mhz antenna

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:48 pm

I have a 800mhz radio system we use around the farm land and the base antenna is just a mobile antenna with a center load 2.0gain i was wondering if i install a ground plane on the antenna woulkd it make it more effecient or would i benefit from it and also are there plans out there somewhere showing how to build one. and quite frankly i would like to know just what a ground plane does, i am not very tech minded. any help would be greatly appreciated. please e mail me at d_patrick@earthlink.net, thanks

Posted 11/12/2012

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