Tony Szablowski writes in a message to Bill Cheek
 TS> Right now I've got my discone scanning antenna about 3' below 
 TS> and 10-15' away from my GMRS antenna. Would this my proximity 
 TS> be damaging to the receive\transmit capabilities of the GMRS 
 TS> antenna? 
Shouldn't be a problem.  It's too far away to be significant - many 
wavelengths in fact.
  
 TS> I'm tired off my but Bill, so forgive me, but what do you mean 
 TS> by wavelengths? The actual signal wavelength either coming 
 TS> in or going out of the antenna? 
  
The wavelength in free space.  For example 148 MHz signals are at about 2 
meters - hence the name of the ham band.  GMRS is at something like 460 MHz, 
so they are at about 66 cm for a wavelength.
 
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