Antenna ?

[suzukovich]

The COM231 is not the Duke system antenna. The Duke antenna is extremely broadband, allowing for transmission on an extremely wide frequency range. The COM231 is the comparatively boring 30-88 MHz, lossy antenna (-1 dBi gain, typical); however, it is still better than the -7 - -1 dBi range of the AS-3900 whip antenna, plus it can handle 200W of continuous power instead of 150W. You can still reduce the profile of an AS-3900 much easier, though, so I'd still prefer a flexible whip if I needed to roll through the woods.

My mistake. Both antennas look similar. If you were going to do an uparmored clone that would be the antenna to use. I agree. The skinner wip would be better. There are several emails Bay sellers where you can get the singars base and antennas. One guy out of Texas is where I got mine.. As for the uparmored truck. I swear by the time I left Afghanistan our trucks between the jamming systems blufor trackers, and Harris radios they looked like porcupines. It was not uncommon to have to replace the dukes antennas due to being hit by low hanging objects. Definitely not an antenna for the woods.

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[Wire Fox]

My mistake. Both antennas look similar. If you were going to do an uparmored clone that would be the antenna to use. I agree. The skinner wip would be better. There are several emails Bay sellers where you can get the singars base and antennas. One guy out of Texas is where I got mine.. As for the uparmored truck. I swear by the time I left Afghanistan our trucks between the jamming systems blufor trackers, and Harris radios they looked like porcupines. It was not uncommon to have to replace the dukes antennas due to being hit by low hanging objects. Definitely not an antenna for the woods.

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Such a sad way to lose those antennas, too. There's a lot of engineering that goes into them and the price reflects it, placing them as multi-thousand dollar antennas. I think a new insurgency battle technique could be to put low-hanging poles across all of the streets to cause high-dollar, non-combatitive damage...

 

[suzukovich]

Such a sad way to lose those antennas, too. There's a lot of engineering that goes into them and the price reflects it, placing them as multi-thousand dollar antennas. I think a new insurgency battle technique could be to put low-hanging poles across all of the streets to cause high-dollar, non-combatitive damage...

It seemed like every other month we were retrofitting our trucks with a new system for countering IEDS. By the time I redeployed we had a general salad bowel of systems.

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