What about a headset?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Antennas on the Bus


> Hi.
>
> That is a sore subject around here.  I use a extended duck that is
supposed
> to approximate a quarter wave on 2m and a 5/8 wave on 70cm.  Many drivers
> take a very dim view of two-way radios on the bus even if the receive
audio
> is kept low enough that one must press their ear to the radio to hear
> it.  On more than one occasion, I've been told that if a particular driver
> sees the radio again, I'll be put off the bus.
>
> For the drivers that don't care one way or the other, I've found that
> blockage of the signal is only half of my problem.  The buses in our city
> are quite the little noise generators.  In fact, a useful side effect of
> this is that I can tell when a bus is pulling up to my stop because when
it
> gets within about forty feet of me the squelch will go open on my radio!
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 08:26 AM 6/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am experiencing difficulty using my handheld on the local transit
system
> >here in the Seattle area.  Very few of our repeaters hear well enough to
> >give me a nice clear signal into them with my rubber duck from inside the
> >bus.
> >
> >Does anyone know of something available or has anyone made some kind of
> >antenna that might use suction cups or some other method to attach it to
the
> >bus window or clamp it to the metal ledge right below the window to give
a
> >better signal?  If so, please let me know what you have done?
> >
> >Thanks much and very 73.
> >Kevin, K7RX
> >
> >Kevin Nathan, Independent Living Coordinator
> >Dept. of Services for the Blind
> >3411 S. Alaska
> >Seattle, Wa 98118
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>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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