H-900 active gain antenna and a mobile transceiver

[petbytes]

I am still learning about multi-band radios and such but I had a question about using an outdoor antenna that I have. I bought it a few years ago and mounted it on top of my house. It was to use with an ICOM IC-75 (receiver) but that didn’t happen but the antenna is still up and the RG-174/U coax run to a bedroom in the house.

The antenna is an LF Engineering H-900 LF/MF/HF active gain antenna (Frequency coverage: 10 kHz through 60 MHz 3 dB)

Link: LF Engineering H-900 Gain Probe Antenna

Could it be used with a Yaesu FT-857D?

I can get a PL259 to Phono adapter.

My question is not asking to use the antenna permanently… I’m just curious if it could be used at all.

Thanks for helping a newbie

[ka3jjz]

Yup - no problem. However as a safety precaution, when using the antenna, I would take steps to deliberately disable the transmit, otherwise you will have an expensive piece of fried electronics up there.

Mike

[Halfpint]

Originally Posted by ka3jjz

Yup - no problem. However as a safety precaution, when using the antenna, I would take steps to deliberately disable the transmit, otherwise you will have an expensive piece of fried electronics up there.

I agree, *great* *receive* antenna... *lousy* *transmit* antenna. I've got a couple up and hooked up through a TIMEWAVE ANC-4 to an ICOM IC-R75 and an ICOM PCR-1000. It's a `killer' combination with one as the main antenna and the other as my `noise sense' antenna for both radios. I'm currently `dreaming' about getting another to set up as a switched `noise sense' so that I can have both an East/West *and* a North/South `noise sense' setup.

[petbytes]

Thanks Mike and Halfpint for your relies and advice