On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 14:25:57 -0700, "CHANGE USERNAME TO westes"
wrote:

I recently purchased an ICOM IC-A23 radio, and I'm disappointed in its
pickup. It gets the weather channels fine, but the reception for both the
airport and airplane radios is poor. Aside from standing next to the
airport or being right under the airplane, do I have any options for
improving gain and the quality of reception? Is there some third party
antenna that I could attach to this radio? It looks like it takes a
standard BNC type connector for the antenna that comes with it.


My radio guy swapped out a loran antenna for a VHF antenna when I had
some radio work done. He ran a wire up to the cockpit and put it in
the map pocket. If I ever need it he's told me it will work almost as
well as a regular radio with that set up. Haven't tried it out yet,
but I do trust his judgement.

HTH

z