Using duct tape, I tried this with my infamous Yaesu. I just taped an
antenna horizontally along the top of the windshield and ran a coax
to it. Sad to say, the improvement was less than dramatic. While someone
with the proper equipment might have been able to measure a difference,
in the air I found the silly little toy was still totally useless as a
nav device.

Note to the rental company: sorry about the duct tape residue. I really
tried to get it all off before the next guy had to take the airplane.

I know others here don't think much of Sporty's, but my experiments showed
that the Sporty's, just using its rubber ducky and not even horizontally,
was actually usable as a nav radio.


"Scrabo" wrote in message news:EqkIc.2159$f9.1838@fed1read02...
I notice that there is a Windshield antenna kit fir ICOM handheld radios.
According to a certain website...

" This antenna kit attaches to the inside of the windshield and dramatically
improves portable nav/com's transmit, receive, and
VOR performance based on extensive field testing. It is portable and ideal
for those who can't use an ANT-SB.
Simply attaches one's own flexible antenna to inside of windshield with BNC,
coax, suction cup adapter."


So my question is simple, why just ICOM radios ? Surely any handheld with a
BNC connector should be it ?

This is the site that I found it listed on...
http://www.aircraft-spruce.com/catal...antennakit.php

Rob.