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mmckenna
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Unlikely.
What kind of antenna is it?
The TX is well inside the range of the antenna. The RX side is not as critical and I would not worry about it at all. Likely it'll do just fine and you won't even notice a difference. Usually the antennas have a nice smooth SWR curve, so it's only going to be slightly out of tune on the RX side, and like I said, unlikely to impact performance.
You could go with a wider bandwidth antenna, but I don't think you need to.
I'd not get hung up on it, unless you are using one of those silly low profile soup can antennas.
OK. Thanks for the info. I was going to use the Laird FG1520.
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mmckenna
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You'll be fine.
Antenna is spec'd to be 2.0:1 SWR or less over its range. I'd suspect it does much better than that. Either way, your TX frequency is well within that range. RX is more forgiving.
Yes I will.
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