sbu22
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On another thread psneed made the point that antennas greatly influence radio performance and that provision to attach aVHF handheld to an installed high(er) gain antenna is a good backup comm device. I have occasionally thought about making this mod but never followed up. I searched TF and have been unsuccessful in finding anything specific as to how to do this. Probably a matter of nomenclature in my searches - I have to believe this subject has come up before.
In the dark and distant past, the USN taught me communications stuff - I have just enough retention to recall that impedance matches and such can be critical to radio/antenna performance. Is that a problem with this?
Further, I'm assuming this is only going to work if you have a screw-in or BNC connected antenna on the hand-held. I suspect the "waterproof" and "floating" hand helds are not candidates.
Thanks for the help.
In the dark and distant past, the USN taught me communications stuff - I have just enough retention to recall that impedance matches and such can be critical to radio/antenna performance. Is that a problem with this?
Further, I'm assuming this is only going to work if you have a screw-in or BNC connected antenna on the hand-held. I suspect the "waterproof" and "floating" hand helds are not candidates.
Thanks for the help.