Elk Antennas 2M/440L5 Dual-Band Antenna $ 137.95 – $ 170.95 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page

From bouncing signals off of satellites, to working simplex two or three counties aways – you cannot go wrong with the Elk 2M/440L5! All Elk 2M/440L5 models come with a handle for handheld operation, making this antenna perfectly set up for satellite, DFing, EmComm, and very portable operation.

Elk Antennas are carefully designed and crafted to provide the kind of performance that you expect to find in a fine antenna. Whether you are connected to a mobile rig or an HT, permanently mounted or operating hand-held, the Elk is a real performer.

Elk Antennas was founded around the year 1995 by Ray Gaschk AG6SI (formerly W6FYA) and Pete Perata K6SHE in Walnut Creek, CA. Even though the business started in 1995, their idea of the best possible portable UHF and VHF antenna was around long before then.

On both the dual-band Elk 2M/440L5 and the 70 cm Elk 440L8 antennas, the elements can be installed simply by feel. The antennas are set up like arrowheads – where the shortest elements are at the front (by the RF connector) and they get successively longer as …

“I received my Elk Antennas 2M/440L5 log periodic as a Christmas gift in 2006. In the past few weeks, I finally got around to making a PVC handle for it, and now it is my antenna of choice for portable satellite work.

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Whether you go through repeaters or communicate via simplex, the 1.25 meter band is an outstanding choice of VHF operators. The feed on all Elk Antennas is from the front of the antenna. In other words, the end of the antenna where you connect the feedline is where you point the antenna at the station you are trying to work.

If this orientation is not followed, severe SWR (standing wave ratio) degradation will occur and the full superior performance of our antennas will not be achieved. Two different techniques are shown in the photos below.

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