Hams don't call them "rubber dummy loads" for nothing. The higher you can mount the antenna the better. T.V. station transmitting antennas are only a few feet tall but are mounted on towers 500 to a thousand feet tall. They don't spend all that money for nothing. 73 Gary N9ZSV/KT At 05:47 PM 1/21/99 -0500, Kenneth Cooperstein wrote: >I have an Apelco 510 5w. handheld VHF radio that I use on my sailboat. >No one can hear me even 3 miles away unless I climb onto my cabintop. > >I can boost the range by using a 4' base-loaded s.s. whip antenna (3 db) >at the masthead, which is the standard solution. However, the folks at >Raytheon told me that I would do almost as well by just mounting the >whip on the rail, because that would get me almost to the limit of what >5w will do with a 3db antenna. Although Raytheon wouldn't quantify the >range, they felt that it would at least triple -- going from the rubber >ducky in the cockpit to the whip on the rail. > >I am considering bringing the whip antenna along on a paddle, in the >belief that if I need greater range, switching to the whip (handheld or >on a stick) will greatly increase my range. Anyone know if this will >work? > >Ken Cooperstein > > >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >*************************************************************************** > > Gary Pewitt N9ZSV/KT gpewitt_at_execpc.com 6120 W. Calumet Rd. Apt. 204, Milwaukee, WI 53223 414 355 8147 home 414 297 4307 work Sturgeon's Law "Ninty percent of everything is crap." *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 21 1999 - 16:09:22 PST
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