An external antenna is essential. I had an occasion to use it airborne
after an electrical failure in IMC. It had a range of 20-30 miles at
5000 ft. I was able to talk to ATC al the way to the airport. My
external antenna is on the belly sine I figured I would be transmitting
down to the radio antennae's.

Michelle

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.




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Michelle P ATP-ASEL, CP-AMEL, and AMT-A&P

"Elisabeth" a Maule M-7-235B (no two are alike)

Volunteer Pilot, Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic

Volunteer Builder, Habitat for Humanity