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Old June 12th 04, 10:33 PM
I Am Not George
 
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"Chris" wrote in message ink.net...
Here are some pictures
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjohnson1379/


"Chris" wrote in message
nk.net...
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......



yes I agree you do nice work chris one question though the 6ga copper
coil and 1/2 in copper pipe are overkill for CB no need to go that big
unless you are running megawatts. Even with your illegal 100 w amp
you still only need a wilson or equivelent that would be much less
weight and problems. but may be you just like the look of it etc. the
heavy duty badass appearance kind of like car hood hold down pins on a
stock engine lol