marine antenna

KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:05 am

i am planning installing a maratrac or a spectra on to a "Turist cruise boat" that sales up and down CT river so it can talk to out base in essex. on the Rail roads channel(We now ow the Boat).

1. is to use a regular marine antenna. i am shure it will tune up to 160. But can they handle 110watts

2. get a small base station anteaa(not a station master) and install that

spareparts · Post by **spareparts** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:57 am

Forget the commercial marine band antenna. Tried using one on a VHF Maratrac. It would detune when TX was more then 10 seconds. The low grade coax was no help

Best bet is to use an RFS/Cellwave BA1010-2. Broadband & suited for the marine envoirnment.

One of the agencies I volunteer for use the BA1010 for VHF & AO8610 for CDPD on a boat with excellent results. We did have to make mounts as they don't fit a standard marine mount.

KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:31 pm

regular marine mounts do not matter, this a a small ship

Znarx · Post by **Znarx** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:48 pm

check out antenna by Larsen p/n OM-150

..true no ground plane VHF antenna
local SAR groups use this on a portable repeater...just toss antenna up & over a tree limb & away you go

...Z

spareparts · Post by **spareparts** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:30 pm

KitN1MCC wrote:regular marine mounts do not matter, this a small ship

Subchapter T-L? BTW, Both antennas mentioned uptopic were mounted on pipe stubs welded to the pilothouse roof.

Any thoughts on using a PD-220 Stationmaster for Marine VHF? We are replacing a 19' Shakespeare 4018-M shortly & I'm toying with the idea of the Stationmaster.