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Tactical Vest Antenna System

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thundermedic

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Has any one seen any information on the US Army's Tactical Vest Antenna System?

I stumbled onto the article on Wikipedia, and started thinking these would be perfect for Search and Rescue, or ARES. The specs quoted say it's good from 39-512 MHz

Has anyone seen them in real life?

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_Vest_Antenna_System
 

ab5r

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I never heard of these, but doubt they would be useful with a 7 watt input limit. I doubt that they would be Omni-directional if they were worn on the body, unless you spun around and faced the radio that you were wanting to communicate with.
 

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If it's like the other wideband milsurp antennas…if it's under a 2.5:1 swr they call it good.


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