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Speaker/Mic with Antenna
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:11 am
by celestial_insight
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Re: Speaker/Mic with Antenna
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:29 pm
by vk6hgr
celestial_insight wrote: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!
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:49 am
by 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.....
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:28 pm
by 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)
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:16 pm
by Markmywords
Sounds like a darwin award storey coming up...
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:29 pm
by Bonez
lol, can't believe he tried that. Well, I spose I can believe it, but it's still pretty funny.
BRING BACK CH8!