Hi Stephan,
The antenna did not have a brand name and I have not seen one advertised
anywhere. I cannot locate the designer or the company that manufactured
one of his other designs. Very frustrating for me.....I tried replacing
the two amplifier chips in the antenna but got lousy performance with
lots of overload, I cannot identify the original parts. I now use
several military and commercial Discones and large commercial VHF/UHF
dipole arrays for monitoring and can't recomend a specific antenna for
you without hearing about your needs, freq range, distance to cover,
proximity to large transmitters, etc. I am not very informed about other
active VHF/UHF antennas except the Dressler but there are others. If you
need to monitor a broad range of frequencies you could start with a
Discone tailored for your needed freq range and place a good pre amp
right at the antenna to get the best noise figure and make up for cable
losses. The Dressler pre amp is supposed to be a very wide band high
level unit that should not be as susceptable to overload as other brands
I have seen.
Mike

Stephan Walther Larsen wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:09:47 GMT, Mike
wrote:


The reason I went to all the trouble of setting this test up was to find
a replacement for an active antenna I had that died after a lightning
strike. It had a very complicated trapped “fat dipole” that presented
its internal pre amp with a good match from 50MHz to around 2GHz and
outperformed anything I have ever use for monitoring purposes. It
performed as good as many of the large high gain commercial antennas



Mike

Id like to know what that antenna was that died on you..im looking for
the best ( money is not particular a limit ) broadbanded antenna for
my AOR5000+3.

I had a dressler 2000 but it died on me and didnt perform all that it
was hyped to..not a big loss to me. However id appreciate an advice
on a good commcial brand antenna for my Aor.

Stephan in Denmark