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Originally Posted by Redneck Jimbo
When using a longer antenna say? A 25in and folding it 2-3 times (like the mil/blade type antennas) down to 6-8in or so, decrease the clarity of the transmissions/receptions? Or is it over all length of the antenna whats important?
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Folding those blade antennas electrically shortens the length and will decrease the reception properties.
Think of it like a net, the larger the net, the more of the signal you are receiving. However, if your net is larger your net, the more potential there is to pickup the background noise and whatnot, especially when you move past 1 wavelength.
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Originally Posted by jakster
Like this article, will keep it for reference. I do have a question. Apart from hand programming a radio are there any good software program that can be used to do the programming. Then plug in the radio to up load the fregs?
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There are programming cables that you can get, however the drivers and the software are sometimes difficult to install and make work. When you only need to use it presumably once, it is not really worth the money to me.