My first thought was to simply replace it with another similar part and route the cable all the way back to the radio. But it will not fit your existing mount I had a 3' whip vhf antenna mounted diagonally to the underside of my poling platform on my bayshore
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I’m going to replace the antenna mount, but i don’t know if there’s internal damage to the antenna and i don’t live in an area where i could easily get a radio check. Learn how to inspect vhf antenna connections, check coax cables, spot corrosion, and troubleshoot weak or intermittent radio performance. Taking the broken antenna off will be easy My question relates to the cable which comes off the antenna and plugs into the back of my radio
I'm looking at bypassing the antenna, and only using the body of it, as it's a convenient mount at the mast head I envisage connecting the core to the aerial, and there being nothing else. I'll show you in this video how to replace a boat vhf marine antenna, as well as the marine radio See links below for the parts i used
Radio performance wise they're fine
