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Antenna placement
- Thread starter Chez471
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K6GBW
Member
Anywhere on the roof, as long as you have about 6-8 inches of metal around its base should work fine. I have mine on the back of my Subaru between the luggage rack and the AM/FM antenna and it works fine.
Do you plan on TX'ing with it?
Rarely. Mostly listening
Even if you don't intend to transmit very often, it would be a good idea to keep the antennas as far away fro each other as possible while still a maintaining a decent amount of ground plane under the new antenna. In the rare event that you do decide to transmit, you don't want to damage your car radio. On my daily driver, my transmitting antenna is about 16" away from my am/fm antenna. I often have both radios on at the same time. Transmitting doesn't seem to have any effect on my am/rm radio at all.
Center of the roof would be ideal or any place inside of better than 6 inches perimiter.
GMRS frequencies would be the only legal "with a license" channels you could transmit on. Otherwise you would need some authorization to use any other frequencies.
K6GBW
Member
A 45 watt UHF transmitter won't do anything to the AM/FM. Mine is literally 8 inches away and there is no problem whatsover.
