The Author has been building yagi and omni antennas for decades. For this project it was decided to try some of the commercially made ones. This evaluation is for the Comet B10 amateur 2-meter and 70cm bands, mobile.

The design is conventional bottom-feed (voltage) 5/8 type of omni. They claim about 4 1/2 db gain which may be over-rated, as many manufacturers do that to promote sales. More likely it's a standard 1-2 db over an (honest) center-feed single dipole, as industry standard. But we'll run with their figure, for now. VHF return loss was around 14 db, while the UHF (70-cm) was about 22.

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