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Old June 12th 04, 07:57 PM
Chris
 
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Here are some pictures
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjohnson1379/


"Chris" wrote in message
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I have constructed a homeade antenna that is mounted on a trunk-lip mount

on
a Nissan Sentra. The bottom is 18" of 1/2" copper pipe with a 3/8" theaded
adapter soldered in the bottom. There is a 9" long peice of pvc with a 2"
diameter 6ga. copper coil around it. Then there is 4" more copper pipe

with
a 3ft' stainless tip on top. The problem is that it would be too easy to
bend the trunk with copper pipe. I thought about a spring but then the

whole
thing would bend too much when the trunk is opened. If I move the coil

down
below roof level, the SWR goes way up. I thought about using pvc for the
lower part but I can't quite figure out how to construct it. I may take

some
pictures of what I have. Stay tuned......