Yes, the factory standard antenna is fairly narrow beast. With a little bit of magic, mirrors and a modification I can get one to perform good enough for my 43 to 53 MHz needs.
cheers, s. > wd8chl <wd8...@...> wrote: > A bigger fly in the soup for this or any LB handheld is the > antenna. It's only going to work over a rather narrow segment, > and has to be re-tuned to go beyond that. 1-2 MHz would be > wide for a low band antenna, due to the loading they have > to put in it to keep it from being 4-5 foot long. > > skipp025 wrote: > > The Kenwood TK-190 portable does go into the ham bands... the > > only major fly in the soup is the tk-190 radio wants to be > > programmed and operate within a relatively narrow range/band > > of frequencies (say up to a few MHz max frequency separation > > between high and low end channels, else it protests. You can > > jam the frequencies into the radio and it works.. but I suspect > > the receive sens will at one point suffer (drop off or go away) > > if you try to spread the range out wider than the radio really > > likes to go. > >
