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9 February 2019 at 4:00 pm
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Robin Leadbeater
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Hi Eric,
If you were transmitting you might want to tune it more precisely to provide a better match to the transmitter but a 3 element yagi antenna tuned for 144-148MHz should work ok at 143MHz for receiving. (It would be difficult to retune in any case as you would need to increase the length of the elements slightly). For example there is an article on the BAA radio astronomy website showing a 7 element yagi centred on 143 MHz with a flat response over +-7MHz bandwidth, fig 2.9 on page 8 here
https://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/Antennas_for_meteor_radar.pdf
Robin