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Larry wrote:
( Mika) wrote in :

Need to install a new VHF antenna to a sailboat.

Put a 1/2 wave antenna as high as you can get it. 2000 meters is
great! but the top of the tallest mast will do just fine.

When you're screaming for help in a sinking boat, you can never have
an antenna that's too high! The altitude of the mast antenna more
than makes up for the length of the cabling losses. With a 25W Icom
and 1/2 wavelength Metz whip at 55 ft on the other end of 30 meters
of RG-58/U coax, Lionheart can call the US Coast Guard station way
out of sight of land.

Couldn't agree more!

Dennis.