HappilyRetired
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Can anyone tell me the Larson model number for their 42 MHz low band mobile antenna? I can find a 27-30 megahertz and a 47-54 megahertz, but no 42 megahertz. Thank you in advance.
Larson low band antenna
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nd5y
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NMO40C covers 40-50 MHz.
It may help if you spell Larsen correctly and know that it's part of Pulse Electronics now.
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It may help if you spell Larsen correctly and know that it's part of Pulse Electronics now.
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HappilyRetired
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I use speech to text and there was no reason for your rudeness. I'm new at this. I would have absolutely no way of knowing the difference between Larsen and Pulse. There was absolutely no reason for your disrespect. What's with you people that have experience that makes you think that you can just crank off one rude message after another?
Chill! He's only trying to help you and there's no reason for you to get all bent out of shape in the process. Much of what is perceived in this world as being negative or disrespectful is just a simple misunderstanding of how the recipient takes in the worded response(s) of others. You now know that LARSEN is the correct spelling and that they'd been acquired by Pulse Electronics. Enjoy your retirement and don't waste anymore time than you have already looking for new and creative ways to FEEL offended!
mmckenna
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Well, let us look at this here:
And nd5y gave you exactly what you asked for:
He then gave you a very accurate reply about why you were not able to find the correct part number, as well as a link to the exact product page. That's not being rude, that's going out of his way to give you the information you asked for, as well as a hint to why you were not finding it. Some would take this as a learning experience. Then there are those that are going to get upset. Not sure what you were expecting, but your reaction is your choice. No one else's.
It's easy to make a spelling mistake and not find what you are looking for. No one here knows that you are using text to speech software. If that's a problem, maybe put it in your signature so others will know in the future. None of us have ESP and know what you are thinking. Your text to speech software should also be able to learn terms like this.
HappilyRetired
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I was going to ignore any further replies to this, but since you have always been respectful towards me and tried to help me, I will respond to you.
I am a great grandfather and after raising four daughters of my own and listening to grandchildren, along with working patrol for nearly 25 years, I know smack. The response I got back was just that. It makes me not want to bother asking any questions.
That was smack. The same kind of smack that has me rethinking getting my ham license based on reading ham radio groups where the old timers talk down to the newcomers.
Consider a slight twist on the wording.
Since I would have no way of knowing who Pulse is, and since I never asked who owns Larsen, that's puts the entire response into the range of rude. You may disagree with me and I will just make myself scarce. It may sound civil to you but you have been around here from what I can see for decades. Your name alone commands respect. The tenor of the response I got suggested I should have already known the spelling of Larsen and that pulse purchased the company. How dare I ask a question.
FWIW, Google corrects the spelling of Larsen when you enter the search term. Telling me that they are part of Pulse now wasn't even part of my question.
KMA
Do you flip out when Google corrects you? Perhaps you should let them know how disrespectful spelling corrections are.
Seriously, the guy was helping you out!
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If you lose the chip on your shoulder, the help on this forum will be more forthcoming. I've well more than 25 years "on patrol" and nd5y's answer was spot on.
Just for information, the basic Larsen VHF low band antennas are fairly narrow band covering maybe 1MHz of band width before VSWR and performance starts dropping off. The coil/whip combination on the NMO40C is long enough to be cut for a specific frequency between 40 and 50MHz but not the entire band at the same time.
If this is for CHP you might consider a wide band antenna that can actually cover about 37 to 46MHz with no tuning and about the same performance across the entire range. Laird is one company that makes these and what is used on the CHP vehicles.
If this is for CHP you might consider a wide band antenna that can actually cover about 37 to 46MHz with no tuning and about the same performance across the entire range. Laird is one company that makes these and what is used on the CHP vehicles.
HappilyRetired
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Working in Information Services does not qualify as spending 40 years retiring as a Station Commander. I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I just don't accept abject disrespect. "It may help if you spell Larsen correctly..." how low class to jump on spelling like that. It could have politely been corrected by saying that, "It is the Larsen NMO40C made by Pulse." It would have corrected the spelling and told me who manufactured it without the disrespectful tenor. I don't expect any one of you to admit that there was a more polite way of saying the same thing.
mastr
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If you were offended by anything in this thread, my advice is to forget obtaining an amateur radio license.
For the record, while I could take a desktop computer apart and put it back together, I never worked in Information Services. That was a whole different building. I was a badge toting, gun carrying officer who worked with everything from patrol to homicide to Crime Analysis to the bomb squad to Homeland Security. I was the kind of worker that made you look good.
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I am seeking some wide-band 27-31 MHz and 47-54 MHz base loaded NMO antennas and am disappointed to find that what may have once existed no longer does.
The aggregation of LARSEN into the mishmash of Pulse/Larsen/Antenex/Laird ad-nauseam has my head spinning. Is it to difficult to publish bandwidth specifications any longer? I cannot even find cutting charts. Who is actually making this stuff? If you go to manufacturers websites you are flooded with every conceivable antenna but very little in traditional LMR mobile antennas. The same problem on infrastructure antennas and hardware.
The aggregation of LARSEN into the mishmash of Pulse/Larsen/Antenex/Laird ad-nauseam has my head spinning. Is it to difficult to publish bandwidth specifications any longer? I cannot even find cutting charts. Who is actually making this stuff? If you go to manufacturers websites you are flooded with every conceivable antenna but very little in traditional LMR mobile antennas. The same problem on infrastructure antennas and hardware.
The narrow band version will work for that but the VSWR may rise above 2:1 at the edges and performance will drop off some. Not as bad as the full 39-46Mhz CHP range.
HappilyRetired
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Thank you again and I appreciate your polite desire to help me. I'm not going to be transmitting so the SWR isn't going to be an issue is it? There's nothing around me that's at 45 MHz although I haven't monitored them. There might be some Secret Squirrel stuff there that I'm unaware of which will change the antenna that I need. Thank you for pointing that out. Have a great weekend. We're getting nailed by nasty weather.
