"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:37:05 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Is this a viable alternative?

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|344|302025|320647|321064&id=70975

Not really, it's not much better than a handheld rubber ducky. I
used to have a second Metz mounted on the stern pulpit, or in your
case, I'd mount it on the arch.


Hm. Why isn't it? No gain? Lousy cable (looks pretty thin, but if it's
brand new???)? Something else?

It's not really feasible for me to mount another antenna on the arch, in
that all the likely points are already occupied. As it was, it was pretty
challenging to put up the MMSI antenna, and wiring would be a bitch at this
point, particlularly with cable of any size.

At that, the helm radio has a stick, with its attached cord, which isn't all
that thick - a typical shakespear ~24" which mounts on a 1" screw - so,
likely, it's not more/better than 8, thinking that Shakespear isn't likely
to equip theirs with 213...

And, once I get it down, I can play with all the excess cable I have from
the current nav installation. In the shop (my workbench on the boat), I
don't mine redoing all the connections if I think they're suspect. So, I'd
have lots of it to snake anywhere I wanted, on the surface, in the event of
some mishap.

WRT a (strictly) spare antenna, would you stow it until needed, or mount it
somewhere, sans cable?

Thanks again for all the thought-provokers and ideas...

L8R

Skip


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