[time-nuts] Rooftop antenna and splitter

Mark Goldberg marklgoldberg at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 20:09:04 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:00 PM Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The thing I’m not quite understanding here - why in the world use an
> antenna that needs
> a ground plane when you can get one that does not need an external ground
> plane?
>
>
What can I say, that antenna was $5.45, locally picked up from the seller,
works fine with the TruePosition I didn't pay much for either, and it
provides about 10 dB more signal with a ground plane.

I'm cheap. I'll admit it.

Regards,

Mark



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