Speaker/Mic with Antenna

[celestial_insight]

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[vk6hgr]

I could see Emergency Services benefitting from higher antennas..

Yup. That's the idea.

Portable radios have lousy antennas to begin with, so if you can get that inefficient antenna just a little bit higher, you've got a better chance of getting out a readable signal. (Of course, you're then transmitting 5W of UHF straight into your face instead of directly into your kidneys, but the jury is still out on that one! )

[Nick]

SES experimented with this type of thing several years ago. The antenna was mounted via the epalette on the shoulder. Did give slight improvement but lost out because of insufficient ground plane. Then there is the five watts at eye/head height. Those I knew who used them used low power only. Maybe we should look at ground independent mounted on top of helmet.....

[Lucas_arts_182]

raymond (off channels 1 and 8 (when it was up)) tried that (4.5db 1/4 whip) on his helmet pushing 5 watts , he got out ok , but look what happend to him ( any one that uses UHF CB would know what im saying)

[Markmywords]

Sounds like a darwin award storey coming up...

[Bonez]

lol, can't believe he tried that. Well, I spose I can believe it, but it's still pretty funny.

BRING BACK CH8!