----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Skolnick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] VHF ant
Not a good idea Skip. If you transmit the SGC 230 won't know what to do and you'll have an unknown and probably ugly impedance for radio. Unless the Uniden has high SWR protection you can easily fry the transmit finals. The 18" coat hanger idea is better. Go back through your ham radio texts and look up 1/4 wave vertical antennas -- that's what the coat hanger idea is. 73 es sail fast, dave KO4MI S/V Auspicious One of my other areas of search has recommended http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|344|302025|320647|321064&id=70975 - not something I can do anything about right now, but prolly a good thing to have aboard. I'm about to see if I can get the radio out and up to the helm, figuring out some way to power it, and use the helm antenna. Just a coat hanger (of which I have one available) prolly would not allow me to actually test it, as I'd have to be assured that I was hearing someone from a distance, requiring outbound traffic as well. The channel isn't very active (for that matter, none of them are, here, at the moment). My bet, based on several EEs chiming in on other forums, and another user of thre same unit + a friend of his with same, is that the radio needs to go back to Uniden for service... 73 :{)) L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand (Richard Bach) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
