Plus, be careful, you could blow out the front end.


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: TH-F6A Question


> They don't tune the radio to the antenna, it's the antenna to the radio.
> The
> radio will match up as well with an outside antenna as any radio, as I
> said
> before though, what is a problem on some HT's is the receiver sensitivity
> is
> turned up so with an outside antenna you could get a lot of intermod if
> there's a lot of stuff in the area to possibly interfere with it, pager
> towers or anything like that. You'd be just find doing that, but as I said
> before, take in to account the flimsy connector, be careful, and make sure
> you run some thin coax off that SMA connector at least for a foot.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Neufeld" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:29 PM
> Subject: Re: TH-F6A Question
>
>
>> Hello John and Others.
>>
>> While one can readily adapt one connector to another, i.e. s m a to
>> something else, the t h f 6 must be optimized for the small antenna
>> supplied
>> with the tranceiver. Has anyone taken the trouble to look at the standing
>> wave that might result from a non-resonant external antenna, not tuned to
>> the output circuit of the transmitter? Although I would like to feed a j
>> poll or something else while camping, etc., I do not wish to do so if
>> more
>> reflected than forward power results. Just how broad-band are the output
>> circuits of these hand helds anyway.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>