Triple 5/8th antenna for 446MHz

 So I have an old what I think is a Jaybeam (not sure) 70cms 3 x 5/8th colinear antenna, Anyway I connected it to my antenna analyser and then adjusted the 1/4 wave matching sections and got a perfect resonant match on 446.100MHz
I then took it out to a high spot to test it out and it worked fantastically getting excellent results and pulling in weak signals.
Here is a picture of it attached to a magmount on my car during a recent visit to a well know high spot. 

So I am all set to join the 8 @ 8 nets on a Sunday evening,
Thanks for reading and 73 from Mark TM2Ø5

PMR 446 Radio

Well I recently acquired an Icom ICF410 UHF 32 channel radio.

So I programmed it on the 446MHz PMR channels and set it to 1W low power.
One of the nice features of this radio is you can set up scan banks.
So I leave it scanning all 16 Channels.
There is a fair amount of business users during the day, and a few
hobby users on in the evenings, so it is fairly busy in this area.  

Hopefully I can report on a few contacts over the next few months.
Here is a picture of it scanning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway thanks for reading, 

I hope to contact you all soon.

Cheers Mark TM2Ø5