As the title says, I'm going to install a lowrance VHF that has a FM tuner built in but need to get an aerial for the FM reception. Can I use a second VHF antenna or does it need to be FM specific?
You should be able to. Quite a few people here use 5/8 wave 2m band (145MHz) whips for car radios and reckon they work better than normal car radio aerials - can't say I have ever tried it myself. At the end of the day you can use a coathanger for receiving, its the transmit bit where you have to get the aerial right
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As the title says, I'm going to install a lowrance VHF that has a FM tuner built in but need to get an aerial for the FM reception. Can I use a second VHF antenna or does it need to be FM specific?
Cheers,
Mark
A marine vhf antenna will pick up FM broadcasts nicely, plus you get a spare for your vhf too if you make up a clever connector.
i had two aerials on mine, the long white ones, had two incase one snapped. however they never did, one was a spare backup
when the new stereo went on we got a special connector that allowed you to use the aerial for the ships radio but also could recieve fm for the stereo on the same aerial
it worked a treat for sure and i dont thing they are very expensive. worth looking into
