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Don't forget, the Icom 802 is also going to want an additional receive-only antenna for the DSC receiver portion. It can't use the main antenna for this. I'm using the backstay for the 802 HF transceiver, a 23 foot whip on one side for the DSC receiver in the 802, and another 23 foot whip on the other side for a separate HF receiver (R-71A). The antenna for the R-71 is also shared with the stereo radio. The backstay uses an AT-140 tuner. The receive-only antennas don't have tuners. Rusty "Skip Gundlach" wrote in message oups.com... Boy, I hate web-based posting. I replied to this and the computer ate it, of course, not saving it anywhere for me... Thanks for the info on non-HF, whip, antenna placement. Our nav VHF is mast top, our cockpit VHF is on the arch, as are other antennas. We'll not be using the backstay for an antenna for a variety of reasons, time, money and security in the potential dismasting among them. As further background, we have full rails, with the gates combined electrically with brass straps belowdecks, attached to the arch, the pushpit and pulpit. We have about 110 lineal feet of 1" SS tube rail, unless you count the inner rails, plus the arch. In addition we have the standard 4" copper strapping leading to a sintered bronze Guest plane below the boat, and also connected to a 3x5' plate under the workbench top. I think we have a reasonably good ground. We have an SGC-230 tuner within 2 cable-feet of the whip antenna. We expect to have an Icom I-802 HF for our HF comms. Given that we'll have a whip antenna, is centerline, next to the chain plate, as good as, better or worse than, or something else when compared to near the side as it was before (but before the arch was installed)? Thanks. L8R Skip, refitting as fast as I can Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 - The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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