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    Using a hand held Yaesu com with an external antenna and headsets in the Vag. Flew through Delta airspace yesterday and radio communications worked great at 15NM out. Hear airborne transmissions over 50 miles away on unicom frequencies in neighboring states.

    Here's antenna location over wing root:

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    Quote Originally Posted by rideandfly View Post
    Using a hand held Yaesu com with an external antenna and headsets in the Vag. Flew through Delta airspace yesterday and radio communications worked great at 15NM out. Hear airborne transmissions over 50 miles away on unicom frequencies in neighboring states.
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    Your altitude is the radio range most critical factor. How high were you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilbert Pierce View Post

    Your altitude is the radio range most critical factor. How high were you?
    Gilbert,

    I was curious how communications were going to be at 2000' AGL passing through Delta airspace yesterday with the Yaesu handheld com with an external antenna and headsets, it was great. I'm in central North Carolina, flying at 1000' AGL can hear (should have said) other aircraft transmissions on unicom frequencies over 50 miles away in South Carolina and Virginia.

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    Could it be Flyjeep's headset?
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    We were bar hopping on the river yesterday morning at a few hundred feet AGL and heard my customer coming in from Amarillo from 120 miles out. He was probably high but was impressed with the Trig radio.

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    Call the/a control tower from 10 miles out (GPS) and ask for a radio check.
    Example: "County Airport tower, Pacer 1234P is ten miles south, requesting airborne radio check."
    Then continue flying away from the tower and repeat every five miles.

    Be sure to thank them for the help.


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    After a little more work I found that I am transmitting about the same distance as I receive, little more than 5 miles. I pulled the radio and antenna and checked connection they look clean with no corrosion. I have the rg58 (black wire). I figure it is a bad antenna or radio. The radio had a yellow tag on top of it that said it was repaired 3 years ago but I can't find anything in the logs that say why.might have been a battery replacement .I have not tried a hand held yet.
    Antenna is a comant cI121.
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    I was messing with the radios today and noticed that if I turn on the old radio, the newer radio clears up (no static) and the old radio has no sound at all if the newer radio is turned off. I haven’t tried it in flight yet.
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    Default Re: Radio range?

    Does that old radio have 760 channel spacing?

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    360 I am guessing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Pierce View Post
    Does that old radio have 760 channel spacing?
    I think 360. I didnt think it worked at all till recently. only has one decimal space but if I round up or down it works. Awos at the field is 118.375 but I can hear it on 118.4 on that radio. The vor doesn't work think it's missing a part. It will eventually be removed for a ps engineering radio intercom combo.
    Old radio is a genave alpha/200A and newer is a king klx 135
    Last edited by Flyjeep; 11-28-2019 at 12:52 PM.

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