Antenna stuff
The first owner of our boat had tucked an automotive-style antenna up under the headliner under the side deck.
Since the little am-fm stereo cassette player was corroded and dead, I threw away the whole mess. I hear from other boaters that this is a common way to place the antenna, though.
On our prior boat I put the vhf antenna on the stern rail using a shorty antenna with base loading coil. Worked great. Only limitation was in how far we could transmit... less distance to the "radio horizon".
LB
The first owner of our boat had tucked an automotive-style antenna up under the headliner under the side deck.
Since the little am-fm stereo cassette player was corroded and dead, I threw away the whole mess. I hear from other boaters that this is a common way to place the antenna, though.
On our prior boat I put the vhf antenna on the stern rail using a shorty antenna with base loading coil. Worked great. Only limitation was in how far we could transmit... less distance to the "radio horizon".
LB