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Originally Posted by WPJ
This can also un-match the antenna to the designed frequency and this will introduce a much higher SWR which can permanently damage the front end of the radio making it totally useless sometimes. But hey it looks cool cause the mil guys do it. Heber there radios are designed to tolerate much higher swr and when the blow the front end they just swap it out with antihero from stores ad have the original fixed. YMMV
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Changing the length of the antenna will not change its designed impedance. As long as it presents 50 Ohms load on the opposite end of the transmission line as the generator its good.
Seeing as the majority of people on here will be running their antennas directly to the radios, SWR is nearly a nil factor as there is no transmission line for it to reside on.
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Originally Posted by WPJ
Great info but also to add to that using illegal radios in Canada. They may work fine and dandy but IC not allows you to use a radio which it WA designed foe ie you can't use a commercial radio on CRS etc. But a lot of people do it still.
Again great info love it.
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Yep, that was the whole point of my sentence, there is a guy who works for IC that plays with us and happily uses these radios alongside us at games.