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AADIVER
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Initially Posted - 01/15/2006 :  14:33:12  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
My "new" '01 doesn't have a masthead antenna or a VHF radio. A buddy is giving me a radio and I have the option of installing a rail mount or masthead antenna. Cheapest and easiest is the rail mount from the starboard catbird seat, but it's an 8 foot Shakespeare rod and seems cumbersome and in the way. A masthead would give me greater range, but installation would cost 3 times as much as installing the rail mount. Anyone faced with a similar "problem"? Thanks again.
Frank Farmer
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Response Posted - 01/15/2006 :  15:47:39  Show Profile
Frank,

My boat came with a Metz mast top antennae and it kept blowing the finals on my transmitter. I tried another one thinking that the first one was at fault but with the same results. At this point I grew weary of going up the mast to replace antennas and switched to the Shakespeare stick instead.
The Metz antennas had a swr ratio of 3.5 and higher, couldn't adjust it any lower. Thinking the problem was with the cable in the mast, I resoldered both ends ..not so. I was also interested in reducing the weight aloft and so I went with the Shakespeare 8' stick. The stick's swr's were flat right out of the box and I've used them ever since. There is one short comming though, their location is such that an unbalanced mariner might unintentionally use one for a handhold. They won't do .

Val on the hard DAGNABIT # 3936 Patchogue, N.Y.
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Response Posted - 01/15/2006 :  17:57:00  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
Where did you install your 8' Shakespeare?
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Response Posted - 01/15/2006 :  23:39:09  Show Profile
On the outside of the transom about 8 " below the top and in line with the stern rail's upright center stantion to which it is wrapped where the top bar joins the stantion.
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