Dave,
The law pertains only to telephones.? Emergency personnel and
transit vehicles are exempt.
FYI,
- Mike
At 09:11 PM 6/11/2014, you wrote:
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WOW,? I'll bet that really bugs the CBers, taxi drivers, wrecker
operators, animal control officers, firefighters, police, and anyone else
who uses a handheld microphone.
Dave J
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- From: "Phil Jenne pjenne@...
[FT-60]" <FT-60@...>
- To: FT-60@...
- Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:37 PM
- Subject: Re: [FT-60] Re: External antennas
- ?
- FYI Here in california we have to have hands free devices although
the radio is legal to use in your car it can be construed as interfering
with driving an ensuing ticket.? I use a 1/4 wave mag mount and
repeater range is about 30-35 miles with it.
- On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:21 PM,
rcochran@... [FT-60]
<FT-60@...>
wrote:
- ?
- Any mag mount quarter-wave antenna should be a huge improvement over
the rubber duck, especially the rubber duck inside a car's Faraday
cage.? I don't have a specific brand recommendation, but I do
recommend getting an external antenna.? If it's just for the FT-60,
you don't need an antenna capable of handling high power, so consider
that as you shop.
- ?
- Some anecdotal evidence: From my home, I can see the local repeater I
most often use, on a hilltop about 2 miles away.? I'm in an area
with excellent coverage.? With a homemade rooftop jpole (copper
cactus), 500mW is reliably full quieting, and I don't have equipment that
I can turn down lower than that to see just how little power it
requires.? With the rubber duck antenna, standing outdoors, 5 watts
is reliably copyable, but not always full quieting.? Take the rubber
duck inside the closed car, and 5 watts won't always be copyable.?
It's been a while since I played with a rooftop magmount, but if I recall
correctly, it performed nearly as well as the jpole.
- ?
- While you're antenna shopping, consider getting a longer "rubber
duck" style whip, about 19" long.? The diamond SRH77CA is
one popular model.? It's a little more cumbersome than the factory
rubber duck, but offers a significant signal improvement while
handheld.? It's my default antenna when using the FT-60 handheld --
I only use the factory one when I really value portability over signal
quality.
- ?
- 73 de AG6QR
- ---In
FT-60@...,
wrote :
- Even though I don't have my radio in hand yet (HRO $162 including
tax), I'm already thinking about buying or making a 2m / 70 cm magnetic
base antenna for my car. There are plenty of plans on line but I also see
that Amazon has one for $16 including shipping.
- I expect to mostly use my radio around Phoenix where the repeaters
might let me operate with just the rubber duck inside my car. I will try
that before buying an external antenna. On rare occasions I drive to
Tucson and see value in an external antenna for that trip.
