After breaking the antenna on our last handheld VHF radio by carrying it in a backpack, we wanted to protect our new radio from the same death. The old radio was 10 years old, and I think that maybe the flexi rubber antenna may have been a little more brittle than when it was new, but we had snapped it a number of times, repairing it with heatshrink. This time, we have made this sleeve for the antenna, and anchored it into a groove in the back of the handset where a belt clip could be located. Many prototypes were required, as the groove required a complex polyhedron shape, and the tapered antenna had to be located just right.
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