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Location: MN | I beg to differ. It's all in the antenna. Increasing talk power with more watts will help your transmit, but in no way will help you hear better. You can't work em if you can't hear em. Higher gain antennas will perform much better. ( more capture area ) And the figure eight thing, never heard of it. Wrapping coax in a circle will create a choke. A good thing closer to the antenna. Your right about the length of coax, although in a boat I doubt you would ever have a length long enough to actually attenuate your signal to a point you could tell the difference. FM is line of sight... so length does matter.
Good Luck
Nick
missourimuskyhunter - 9/9/2012 8:14 PM
Nope...wont gain a thing with no matter what antenna you use.It's all in the radio and Coax. Say you have a radio with 20watt output with a short antenna,and a radio with 10watt output and a long antenna and the short combo will out perform your other radio 10 to 1. Same as Coax,the shorter coax will perform better than the longer one since you loose alot of gain with the longer coax.Another tip for better performance is if you have extra coax is to wrap the wire in a figure 8 pattern rather than a circle pattern before you tie the extra away.  |
