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Originally posted by emcon5
Hint: We had some reception problems, which we solved by adding an external antenna to the Midland radio. The external antenna consisted of gently cutting the of tip plastic cover over the antenna to expose the copper antenna wire, and adding a length of wire connected to the radio antenna by an aligator clip. We ran the wire up the cage and through a small hole in the roof, to get it outside the car body. You could do the same thing by sticking the wire out the top of the passenger door and closing it, or even with a piece of good-old blue painter's tape. A friend I race with used the same setup in a different car, with no problems even without the external antenna.
Tom
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I'm surprised that worked. A transmitter usually depends on the length of the antenna to determine the wavelength, and thus frequency, of the transmitted signal. When you change the length of the antenna you usually screw it up.