![]() Hopefully, you used our two-part article ‘ How to Choose the Best Walkie-Talkie‘ to help you select your Handheld Transceiver (HT) and one of the very first things we recommend in that article series is to get an HT that has a removable/replaceable antenna. Okay, so the first consideration is whether or not your radio is even capable of accepting an external antenna. Can Your Radio Accept an External Antenna? If you have a portable type walkie-talkie, then there’s a big question you first need to answer. If you have a base station or mobile two-way radio, it almost certainly does not have an antenna provided with it, and so you can skip the next section (but not the other sections). Note that FRS radios are not allowed to have external antennas, and if you have an HF or other less common Ham radio, then with your General or Extra license, you probably already know most of these things! Much of what we say applies to CB radios too, except that their antennas are ideally very much larger (five times larger than 2m/GMRS and 15 times larger than 70cm/MURS). ![]() This article is designed for people using either Ham type VHF/UHF radios, or alternatively, MURS/GMRS radios. But – keep reading – we’ll help make the challenges easy and issues easily resolved. This is the replacement of the antenna.Īlthough the concept of swapping one antenna for another sounds easy and simple, there are some issues and challenges associated with it. Perhaps the easiest improvement you can make to a two-way radio is also one of the least expensive and definitely the one that will have the greatest impact on both your radio’s transmitting and receiving range. This is the first part of a two-part article – please also read part two – Installing an Antenna – for helpful further information on how to connect your antenna to your radio and how to ‘tune’ your antenna for best performance. All give much better performance than the short antenna on the radio itself. There are very many different sizes and styles of car antennas.
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