How long do I cut the limbs for PMR 446?

[NorthernRaider]

(20 December 2013, 11:05)Lightspeed Wrote: Your 10m of RG58 and the connectors are probably eating around 30% of your signal.

Bugger, I may be able to do some major cable rerouting and get it down to say 5 meters would that cut the loss of signal by half?

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Would more elivation on the ant overcome the problems broadcasting south co thats the direction I need to transmit most as NR junior and Mrs NR work or school that direction??.

Starting to think i need a burner and a much higher antenna to reach the places I need to reach.

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BTW theres little or no metal in my loft to interfere cept the neighbouring CB ant sat on a 2 ft square sheet of metal earth plane, would moving the PMR ant outside gain much??

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Ideally I really would like to keep the antennas in the loft for Opsec and MTCE issues.