A long-held adage maintains that a marine fixed-mount VHF radio is only as good as the antenna with which you match it. Translation: Don’t spare the dollars. Major brands such as AirWave, Digital, ...

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Installing one of today’s advanced fixed-mount marine VHF radios can prove more involved than you might imagine. Naturally, every radio model requires a 12-volt DC power source and a VHF antenna, but ...

Raymond, Maine-based Dielectric is ready to offer its new DCR-Q Series low-band VHF antennas to customers, with the promise of being a space reducer. The DCR-Q design was adapted from the existing ...

A drawback to standard VHF radio communication is that it is limited in range to little more than line of sight. Unlike HF and lower frequencies, VHF’s transmitted waves propagate minimally around the ...

Here is a high performance radio receiver antenna amplifier for the entire VHF broadcast and PMR band (100-175 MHz) which can be successfully built without any special test equipment. The ...

The author is senior technologist at NPR Labs in Washington. Field strength measurements are almost as old as radio itself, as engineers have endeavored to test and improve their RF transmission ...