On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:31:31PM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > That’s about 1.85 meter wavelength, so a quarter wave antenna would be pretty > large. I’m sure the RF engineers can come up with a way to listen > effectively without a huge antenna.
For 162Mhz, a 1/4 wave antenna would have a vertical radiating element of around 17". However, for receive only purposes, it's not necessary that the antenna be resonant. You can demonstrate this yourself with any FM radio and a paperclip. Cheers, -j
