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I hate to say it but there sure is a bunch of ignorance here concerning VHF antennas
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:09:23 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote: Follow the link in the anomaly thread, and you'll see why. It wouldn't fit on the bracket... OK, based on the following picture, I think I see the problem. It looks like the coil on the bottom of the Metz was interfering with the upright portion of your aluminum angle bracket, requiring you to space it higher? http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/892...tzbracket3.jpg You are incurring at least 1 db of extra loss as a result of that connector stack (0.5 db per extra connection), and that's assuming that no moisture has gotten in, and the connectors are all top shelf. 1+ db is a lot of loss, about equal to an 80 ft run of good quality coax. It looks like the solution is to trim away some small portion of the outer end of the angle bracket as indicated in the cross-hatching so that the Metz can be mounted flush the way it was intended. That would eliminate both adapters that you have now. While you're doing all that you might want to retighten the nut under the red shrink tubing that holds the whip in place. They sometimes loosen up over time and let the whip get away. It happened to us about 20 years ago on a cruise to Maine. The good news was that while up the mast fixing the Metz, I spotted a pod of whales on the horizon and they put on quite a show for us. |
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