A few years back I got ahold of a big UHF Folded Dipole antenna. This thing seems to be tuned for around 415500mhz, so it should work for the amateur 70cm band as well as business band. Back in 2021 I started filming a video about it, but then left it lying on my roof for 3 years.

This appears to be something like a DB420 8Bay antenna, about 20ft tall (plus the extension to roof level).

Now that we don't have winter any more, and it's 50F in early February, I'm sticking the thing onto my garage. I'm also attaching an old Baofeng handheld radio and the Boondock Echo answering machine device that I've mentioned before (more info here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/boondock...)

The antenna seems to work really well at picking up distant ham repeaters, and will be the first part of my new antenna farm on the garage roof!

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