Well, I thought I mentioned we were all using Comet or Diamond, I think the worse is a Db5.1 gain anntena and the Elmer has a SWR meter, and we are all losing less than 10% on most of the bands we use.
If I understand these amp manuals, I just hook my existing antenna wire into the amp, then from the amp to the Antenna. Easy peasy. At $150 to $300 for a starter model, it is worth a try to see if the FT-60 can drive it effectively. I doubt the Baofeng would do it. Ears open if anyone wants to recommend an amp On May 4, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't forget an antenna, try a better antenna first. > > The Motorcycle Amateur Radio Club has several pages on antennas. You might > start here: http://www.marc-hq.org/40.technotes/40-10.htm > > They seem to think Comet has the most durable antennas. I don't ride a > motorcycle nor have I used their antennas, so I can't say. > > Start with the antenna. You'll need coax with the appropriate connector for > your FT-60R (BNC??) and whatever connects to the mount you use on your bike. > > Mount the antenna as high as practical. Getting the antenna up moves the > radio horizon farther away. > > I don't know the ground plane requirements (if any) for Comet, and it may > vary from model to model (and from the models MARC used to recommend to the > ones that Comet makes now). > > If your antenna does not work well, adding an amplifier will be far less > effective. > > I've used Mirage amplifiers, but that was a few decades ago. > > This is an example of their product: > http://www.mirageamp.com/Product.php?productid=B-310-G > > This will give you 100 watts out. More than that won't help, and I could not > find anything that said how much power they draw, or a fuse rating, so I > don't know how your bike would cope. I would connect it directly to the > battery. > > There are some details to work out, but just getting better antennas, up > higher, on all of the bikes in the group could be enough to solve your > problems. > > 73 -- Lynn > > On 5/4/2014 4:09 PM, rgconner wrote: >> Using the Ft-60 with an amp would be awesome. How do I do that? > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
