Flower Pot Antenna Gain. This resulted in an antenna with swr of about 1.0 on 146.52 mhz simplex, and 2.0 on 144 and 148 mhz. Experimental dual band high gain flower pot antenna.
About flower pot antenna for 2 and 6 mt the resource is currently listed in dxzone.com in 2 categories. Its called a flower pot antenna because, the original antenna was cleverly disguised in a flower pot. A few years ago a made one of vk2zoi's dual band flowerpot antennas.
I was surprised how well it worked and a few others tried it and found it worked very well.
The clever inventor of this antenna is a nsw amateur radio operator (vk2zoi) and the instructions to build this antenna are on his website. Here is a link to his webpage with instructions for making several of his designs. Build your own 6db gain flower pot antenna from coax that you probably have laying around your house. The arrangement is shown in the sketch below.