Hi Everyone,

I am a non-advanced user of licensed commercial VHF handhelds for a
large national charity.

We have a need to communicate between two sites. For various reasons
that I can't easilly explain in text I need to be able to put an ariel
on the roof and connect it to the handset in the building (there is a
large grass bank outside both buildings, but the roof -- roof is line
of sight and works well.

I spoke to someone over the weekend who told me that it was easy to do
- all I need apparantly is an ariel (identical to the ones that people
have on their cars), cut to the appropriate length for my frequencies
and then some standard TV cable to connect the ariel to my handheld.

Naturally, I have some questions
1) Where do I get adapters to plug one end of my TV cable into my IKOM
F-15 ariel socket?
2) Where do I buy the ariel? How do I calcualte the length that I
should cut it down to?
3) What sort of end do I need on the other end of my TV cable to plug
that into the ariel, or is this a solder job?

If anyone can help me with any of these or if you have any advice or
suggestions they would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,

Alex Davies

PS - this is a double post of
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.r...93b25bbc21c85b.
|t only told me after posting that this newsgroup was old and that I
should post here - sorry!