"Duke Of Windsor" wrote in message
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Steveo wrote in news:20040120211528.091
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Duke Of Windsor wrote:
Steveo wrote in
news:20040120201006.419
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It looks like a keyclowns two meter portable beam to me. Perfect
for jamming repeaters like dogie does. Only difference is the
key-clowns will have their knees in the breeze, and dogie will
be drowning in his own low power swill.


That shows how much you know Steveo, a quick search of this NG will
reveal a guy named Brass who was peddlin these star gun CB antennas.

Umm, did you see how small they are after trimming the vertical
to the happy medium?


I sure did buddie, does look like a uhf beam.


HAHAHAHAH! That's what I thought. It "might" work as a capacity hat, but
it certainly isn't a driven element (the way I see it). It would work as
well as those "ground" plane adapters you see in CB shops with the
rubber-looking thingies sticking out under the whip. That
is nothing but a capacity hat that does little more than shorten the whip.
BUT! It sells antennas to the unwitting
customers who are most anxious to "git out" the best they
can--and even believe that their antenna is working SOOO much better now the
tech(?) installed his "ground"
plane. It is sad that much "truth" is only a myth promoted
by crooked CB shops-like coax length and "broad-banded" BIG coil antennas!
If an antenna is truly efficient, then its bandwidth is actually narrow(er),
but
makers "dicker" with the impedance to widen bandwidth
because it has been taught as gospel in the CB world. It
is also because the sellers know that selling these "broad-
banded" antennas is important so the buyer can have his cake and eat it,
too!

Those BIG coil antennas aren't as efficient as the makers
make them out to be, but they sell antennas because bigger is "better",
right? Lots of smoke and mirrors, eh?

One day I'll tell you the one about the mobile antenna that
had water and/or vinagar in the lower mast. The sales slogan was "Ever
notice how much better your signal is
over water?" Honest!! Oh, I just told you!


Let the buyer beware. If if sounds too good to be true, it
probably is.


Jerry