- Low Profile 2 Meter Slot Antenna On Dish Antenna
- Low Profile 2-meter Slot Antenna
- Low Profile 2 Meter Slot Antenna Preamplifier
A fellow blogger, Brick O’Lore, wrote me with a question that I don’t have a good answer for. Would anyone care to weigh in on this?
I’d like to add a 2M mobile rig in my wife’s car. Sounds simple enough, but the trick is that I need something that is as small as possible and will have a really neat installation. I’d prefer to have a mobile rig that I can wire in (power and an antenna) and see the display (versus cobbling together something with an HT). A detachable faceplate/remote would be fine. I want 2M to hit the repeaters – any other bands or advanced features would be a bonus, but not required. The car is a 7 year-old Audi A4 and there is very little room in the footwells. It does have a neat feature – a drawer under each of the front seats. So what’s small and installs such that it will score well on the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) scale?
Low Profile 2 Meter Slot Antenna On Dish Antenna
My suspicion is that there are a lot of good choices — and none are going to be particularly “affordable.” If you have a photo of your creative radio installation that might help others, send it to me (editor at amateurradio dot com) and I’ll attach it to this post. I think that would be especially helpful. If not, your insight and tips via comments are always very much appreciated!
Low Profile 2-meter Slot Antenna
Having tried internal antennas and a variety of low profile, homemade versions, I can safely say that you will be disappointed. The other concern with anything in the passenger compartment is RF energy frying on you (the passengers) or some of the electronics. Wow, I use that exact same antenna in the OP on my car for UHF. It works great, but they are commercial low profile antennas normally seen on 'detective' cars where 'dual band' is not needed. I also have one for 900 MHZ. I don't believe anyone makes them for 146/440. Select one of our low loss coax cables below. Firestik 2M15B 2 Meter Antenna. 2 Meter Antenna 15' Long Uses 3/8 x 24' mount Tunable Tip.
Low Profile 2 Meter Slot Antenna Preamplifier
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