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SSB Antenna Installation
chuck wrote in
ink.net: Nice boat, but I would not use a deck-mounted whip since it would be surrounded by metal: not only by the pilothouse, but by the sides as well! Instead, consider a 16-foot whip mounted on an insulated support at the level of the gunwhales and supported at the pilothouse roof. With all the windows in the pilothouse, I wouldn't give losses a second thought. Good luck. Chuck I'd recommend not putting an HF SSB radio in this little boat at all. Who are you going to talk to on it? It's not big enough to take to sea for a cruise, so why would it need SSB capabilities so close to shore? I doubt you're going to be able to keep an SSB radio working in this wet environment. WHATEVER you do, don't buy an Icom! Their SSB radios are NOT sealed up, at all, having many openings that will simply be filled with spray and destroyed. It isn't going to happen with a radio like M802 or 702 in this boat. This boat doesn't need SSB. It needs a full-power VHF into a 6 dB folddown antenna whip. |
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