scanning aerial

[JGR]

Late to the table but the X510 has a very wideband receive, I just scanned mine with my vector network analyser, and I was somewhat surprised at the results so much so that I calibrated the VNA and tried again and the results were good.

[stanogs68]

thank you ,but i have the n one thats huge its as big a my sirio ,i want a small one ,many thamks for al your help cheers lads

[Chris P]

how about replacing the sirio with the X510 unless you still want to use the sirio for TXing

[stanogs68]

how about replacing the sirio with the X510 unless you still want to use the sirio for TXing

No ,Im no going to tx as im still doing my foundation course but i will be ,The thing is i either get a smaller scanning aerial or swap it for my Antron because both are to big to put up together on my property ,the neighbours are nice but its a posh area and it will look a bit much

[rovman]

Well I use on my 5700D a X510 at about 100 Ft with LDF-450 and it works very well , Have tried many ants over the years from the SX200 days to IC-7000 with discones and the X510 has been the best and now on my forth one the only problem I have found is corrosion so best use rubber vulcanizing tape on the joints .

[G4RMT]

The most effective wide and antenna I've ever had is a jaybeam discone, but it has sat on the ground for five yea now because it's just so impractical up in the air. I've got a small j pole for UHF, a single band UHF 4.5dBd vertical for 453 and a white stick dual band, probably a 30 of some brand or other. On an analyser the discone is a spikey mess. Lots of spikes where it is more resonant and lots of dips that are not too bad vswr wise. It does however do a good job absolutely everywhere between 70 and 500mhz and it's actually got some performance in the 600mhz band. The white stick has sensible matches in the two ham bands but in between them it's a bit of metal in the sky. I have commercial kit here. The vswr on 453 is workable, about 2:1 but on the repeater it's absolutely rubbish. The jpole is a tiny little thing and on transmit it's damn good. So many antennas now seem to be designed with vswr as the critical feature, NOT for actually getting RF in or out.