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For those of you who can live with an omni-directional antenna, I ran across this on another board: http://www.boatenna.com/index.htm basic, no hype, well made, no enclosure to contribute to loss, low loss 300 ohm ribbon cable, actually made for a marine environment and the cost is pretty...

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There is no rotation.* It's an antenna that picks up signals from all directions. *

I agree with everything except the necessity for an amplifier. The amplifier only overcomes the cable losses to the TV , it does not improve the efficiency and unless it is a really big boat or really tall mast, or you are splitting the signal it is not necessary and because the amplifier has a...

They sell them because people who do not care to bend a clothes hanger will buy them. The same reason people will spend $100 *or more on a marine VHF antenna when it is nothing but a wire covered with a fiberglass tube. Physics are physics and hype is hype. Some people will buy what works...

The contour is the signal strength of the TV station at a given distance from the transmitting antenna. Antennas and their ability to receive signals are very basic and the advertising hype is just that. Antennas are nothing more than wires, or elements, *arranged in a pattern *and no antenna of...

Omni-directional means that an antenna is equally INEFFECIENT in all directions.* " There ain't no free lunch " You can put a Yagi outside with a rotator or you can put rabbit ears inside and get up and move them if the boat moves, or if you are that close to the transmitting tower, just...

Trash it! *If you are within the B contour of a TV station, with digital TV, if you do not get reception on rabbit ears, you will not get sufficient signal without going to a Yagi antenna mounted outside. These types of antennas were nothing but rabbit ears mounted in an enclosure with a small...

Oh and your Course Computer will only look at one compass, GPS, Etc, but you cal still have multiple units for back-up.

Sea Talk is a older communication protocol used by Raymarine, Fluxgate is a compass technology and normally uses NMEA protocol, although it can use Sea Talk. Apples and Oranges. Bottom Line: Fluxgate Compass on NMEA bus is correct for modern electronics.

dwhatty's post was absolutely correct. The antenna that you have was mostly a gimmick when off-air was analog and mostly on VHF channels. Now that off-air TV is ALL digital, and for the most part, ALL on UHF channels you are much better off with rabbit ears on top of the TV. If you do not get a...

Max Going to Belize on a vacation and living here are quite different. I even like to go to Manhattan for a few days but living there is something else. Most people do like Belikin at first but when you want a change and realize that Belikin is a monopoly in Belize and a lager is more to your...

Bill I never said that I was not where I wanted to be. If you will look at my avatar, that is the view from my bed, and there are few places in the world that would let me enjoy the diversity that is available in Belize. I am just for-warning willy that Belize is not the paradise that some...

If you are talking about a " transmitting compass " I have an old Neco Marine that may work. It's your for the shipping if you can use it

No, I am in Hopkins which actually has very little violent crime but does have it's share of drug use and property crime. I think that if you will check the statistics for 2010, you will find that you have a far better chance of being the victim of violent crime in Caulker/San Pedro than you...

Belizebill You must have your directions confused. The real violence is South and West of you. The violent crime rate in Belize is over twice that of Mexico and your chances of being a victim of police corruption is also greater in Belize. It's just a much smaller country. Willy before you...