Re: Good tip for antennae !!!!!

--- In [email protected], mdennisond@a... wrote:
> Hi there!!!!
> I have a good tip for you,no messing about with connectors & cable 
& risking 
> any possible damage to the tiny sma aerial socket.
> Some guy gave me this tip of wish i could remember his name as i 
would list 
> it here in this message.
> Me being a communications engineer thinks this is really a cool way 
of 
> amplifying the signals just that little bit more into this tiny R2 
scanner.
> Have you heard of or know of something called Adhesive Aluminium 
Tape ?
> If so....purchase some of this,if not silver kitchen foil will do 
the job.
> Now all you do is roll the stuff into a tube that will slide over 
the stock 
> antennae.
> Length ?.....I started with 1/2 a metre of which i noticed a big 
improvement 
> on the AM band.
> This really works !!!!
> Now you can experiment with lengths as you wish.
> The best thing about doing it this way than making bigger external 
aerials 
> via extra cable (RG58) is that you can cut down signals coming in 
overloading 
> the if stages & filtering of the IC-R2 unit,in other words the 
bigger the 
> aerial on this unit the more overloading of signals coming into the 
unit will 
> make you receive a signal on say 142.0000Mhz and find that you will 
receive 
> exactly the same signal on say 308.0000Mhz.
> That can get very confusing.
> This unit was built to perform in spec with it's stock antennae.
> You will receive more with external aerials but you will run into 
some 
> frequencies of which you receive the same on a different frequency 
if you 
> know what i mean (overloading the if stages).
> I have found with Adhesive Aluminium Foil/Kitchen Silver Foil slid 
over the 
> stock antennae to bring in signals as to not overload the unit.
> You can try this with different lengths and it's so easy as with 
messing 
> about with different variations of external aerials.
> Anyway,try it out and let us know what you find.
> Yours,
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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