I went for the Rigexpert stick 230. It covers HF, 6m and 2m, not that much interested in higher bands. Plus what I liked most is its size and portablity, as I intend to use it out in the field for SOTA and parks, want something can throw in the backpack and not weigh much. Turning it on presented with a main menu, really clear, using epaper like display such as a kindle reader to be able to read outdoors.
The Multe menu is about the most useful, scans all the ham bands and finds the ones that your antenna will work... Plugged it into my Comet GP15 vertical, which is for 6m, 2m and 70cm. As does not cover 70cm found 6m and 2m. 6m
As you can see its resonant at 54.167 Mhz with SWR of 1.11. Out of the 6m band... Also can see a chart
To be honest I've never used the Comet GP15 on 6m. From comments online its really meant for 6m FM repeaters on the top end of the band, there are none nearby me anyway... I find my 40 m dipole does a better job!
Next band found 2m. Pretty good here, resonant at 145.53 Mhz at 1.23 SWR
Chart for 2m. Covers the whole 144 to 148 Mhz band nicely. The antenna works well on 2m 😀
Installed Antscope2 software on my shack laptop and plugged in the supplied USB cable. Able to scan the antenna using selected frequencies. 6 m again showing out of band resonance above 54 Mhz
2 m scan, fairly flat across the whole band.
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