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<DIV>A previous owner of my '76 Cessna Cardinal had an extra aircraft antenna mounted on the belly with a cable terminated with a BNC connector in the cockpit so that an aviation handheld could better be used as a backup should both the regular transceivers fail. I recently tried the antenna with a Kenwood D700 running at the lowest transmit power setting and it works fine. (I don't want to trim the antenna length to better preserve its backup use.)</DIV>
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<DIV>73, ---Ken W2KB N16019</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Earl Needham <needhame1@plateautel.net> <BR><BR>> At 01:15 AM 9/16/2006, Andrew Rich wrote: <BR>> >Any suggestions ? <BR>> <BR>> I've used an HT with a rubber duck to check into a repeater net <BR>> 200+ miles away, so you'll be able to get SOME results with almost anything. <BR>> <BR>> The suggestion to use an inspection panel is a good one, but if <BR>> CASA is a problem, you could simply have another aviation antenna added and <BR>> use that. It would help if you could get it tuned for 144 instead of 120, <BR>> but I suspect it would work in either case as long as your transceiver <BR>> could tolerate the mismatch. <BR>> <BR>> BTW, if you normally fly pretty high AGL, then mount the antenna <BR>> on the belly. However, if you normally fly low, like a crop duster, you <BR>> might be b
etter served by mounting the antenna on top. <BR>> <BR>> 7 3 <BR>> Earl <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> aprssig mailing list <BR>> aprssig@lists.tapr.org <BR>> https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>