Oh yeah, that looks SOOOO much better! Rubber heat shrink tubing and a lighter, total cost, 10 cents. I will be doing something similar with an OEM Motorola 800 antenna and an SMA-SMA adapter soon as well.
RS800 asthetic antenna modification
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KampingAnthony1AolCo
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Looks nice. Did it improve your reception or not?
DJ11DLN
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Are you able to remove it from the scanner if needed, or is it sort of semi-permanently "glued" to the BNC?
Not that it would necessarily be a bad thing if you never need to remove it, and certainly would keep a lot of moisture, dust, crud, etc out. And easily cut off if necessary, just wondering if it will come off and leave the shrink tubing intact.
Not that it would necessarily be a bad thing if you never need to remove it, and certainly would keep a lot of moisture, dust, crud, etc out. And easily cut off if necessary, just wondering if it will come off and leave the shrink tubing intact.
I had a sparer extra BNC-SMA adapter, so I shrink wrapped the antenna to it permanently. I could slice it around the mating point, and allow it to be removed and replaced if I really wanted to, but I don't have anything with a BNC attachment to put the antenna on, so it looks perty and feels nice and rubbery smooth. Please note that it is on a Uniden scanner with SMA, which requires the big ugly heavy chrome BNC-SMA adapter to be used, which is what you see shrink wrapped to the antenna.
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oracavon
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Yes, very impressive.Now that looks sharp!! Very nicely done.
DJ11DLN
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+1. I wasn't criticizing, just curious, sorry if I came across wrong. Didn't realize you also had an adapter stuffed under there. Great solution and looks great too.
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