SLF hand held radio
SLF,
You asked a question earlier about hand held radios. It is my understanding that to be effective it would need to have an output of aroung 20W and the best on the market is only 5W with most less than 2W. You could route it through an existing aircraft arial but that would be a major modification and still probably not enough power to send a useful signal.There are only one or two very old or obselete models which are approved by the UK CAA for use in an aircraft. Of course a company could do some trials and certification but it would be very expensive especially if the pre-study suggested it would not work sufficiently well.
In summary I think it is a good idea which would not be effective in practice. But I am not an engineer and would welcome informed comment by an engineer.
Perhaps this is something which could be discussed in the Tech Log forum.
MM
Last edited by Miles Magister; 23rd Sep 2006 at 08:11.
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