Aircraft antennas

Well, like I said, it works for me. I can double check wattmeter
readings since I did them 7 or 8 years ago...maybe I did only go up to
125 or so since I never really saw myself calling on 133.6 or something
like that. Regardless of that outcome, the fact remains (at least in my
case)...it works. That may, in fact, be due to the fact that 99, no
make that 100% of the time I am between 118 and 126 and 99.9% between
122.7 and 123.0. I did NOT want to get in any sort of ****ing contest
with anyone, I just wanted to give the original guy another option and
post on my experience with it. And for $39, it would be a pretty cheap
experiment. If it failed, you can always use it for its intended purpose.

Scott


RST Engineering wrote:


Just for grins, that 1 watt transmitter and a 1 microvolt receiver has a
theoretical free-space range somewhere in the vicinity of a thousand miles,
so even if you throttle the 1 watt down to a hundred milliwatts, you still
have well over a hundred mile range, horizon not being a factor. (Radio
horizon is given in miles as (sqrt(2*h)) where h is your altitude in feet.)
At pattern altitude of 1000', this would be 44 miles; if the other guy is at
pattern altitude also, this doubles the range to 88 miles, which is about
what you are seeing.

Howzat?

jw