MarcJensen wrote: > > > I have access to NiTi super elastic wire (the metal used in the fancy > eye glass frames). I could make an antenna that would stand up 3 to > 4' in length but fold up to a little ball. You could even wrap it > around the VHF unit. The question I have is what length would you > make the antenna? I could potentially make two or three of these > to try out if anyone is interested. I would need to make the O.D. > more conductive but I have several way of doing that. > > Marc. >If you want to play with it, try cutting it 17.5 inches long. You might even try making you a "pigtail" out of small guage wire, 17 inches long and putting an aligater clamp on the end. Try running some test with/without it clamped on the shield part of the BNC connector, with the "tail" end just hanging there. In some cases this can help a rubber duck out as it allows it to "see" a 1/4 wave ground.?? You be the judge! You can also help your HT out quite a bit by holding the antenna/HT straight up and down, ie, not tilted over. Making the antenna you are talking about, longer would intell(sp?) some matching network and I feel that we don't need to get into that here. :>) Good luck, have fun and report back. James *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 10:15:13 PST
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