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Default AIS Transponder Antenna Placement

Geoff Schultz wrote in
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I don't have spreaders as I have a carbon fiber mast.

-- Geoff



Keep the antennas away from that mast, which acts like a big RF resistor
and absorbs, not reflects, RF signals....
The Metz Manta 6 requires no ground plane at all and will work just fine
atop that mast and at least 12" away from it further down.

Larry
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