[450] After looking around for a while

[Robert Busino]

Dave,

The meter you speak of will likely do the job, but remember not to take 
actual power readings to seriously on any meter.  The important thing here 
is with a calibrate knob, at least you'll have direct reading SWR 
regardless of power level.
As far as the beam being below the vertical, likely insignificant.  If it 
disturbs you, positioning it at precise 1/2 wave increments is the best 
possible scenario (I.E. 1/2 wave in free space, full wave in free space, 
etc.....roughly 40", 80", etc,) but it already assumes it's radials to be 
it's "ground plane" and pays little to no attention to the beam.
The fade you are experiencing is likely the conditions we are all 
experiencing with temp. changes lately.  Even Larry, N1YBA who is a fairly 
steady local signal to my East faded to nothing the other night as a duct 
formed North/ South between us for a while.
Do a regular sweep of your available machines noting their signal, then 
assess what is "normal" over a space of time.

Off to grocery shopping for me, hopefully leaving shack time this 
afternoon.

73, Bob
  
  
  

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 From: "David Garcia" <wb2rxf at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 8:57 AM
To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
Subject: [450] After looking around for a while   
 and reading the reviews on eham, Its looks like the Diamond Antenna SX600 
Dual Power Meter is the one to get, it seems reasonably priced for its dual 
purpose, if anyone knows of a better option, chime in. Also while listening 
around this week on the vertical, I noticed, I don't know if this is the 
right terminology, but it looks as though some of the noisy spots aren't 
noise at all, but a second repeater on the frequency that sounds like its 
out of phase, with this the carmel repeater fades in and out accessibility, 
out of the blue, I'm gonna go on a whim and say its because the 2 meter 
been is just 4 feet below it, to be continued. Now, time to make breakfast. 
:) 

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