tjd wrote:

PS: while my plane was in getting some avionics work done I had them
install a connector to let me hook the handheld up to the external
antenna... looking forward to doing some comparisons vs. the whip
antenna.

I think you'll be impressed. In my Cherokee, the external antenna is the
difference between being heard from 4 miles away, and being heard 40 miles
away.

It won't do anything for the nav funtion. It'll still wobble without a
horizontally polarized external antenna. When I replaced my old KX-99
handheld navcom, I just bought the IC-A6. Same as the -A24, but without the
nav band.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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