JerryO wrote:
It is sad that much "truth" is only a myth

promoted by crooked CB shops-like coax

length and "broad-banded" BIG coil antennas!

Those big coil antennas are for handling megawatts..something your
conventional cb antennas can not do. The antennas work exactly as they
were designed.


If an antenna is truly efficient,


The antennas you speak of have everything more to do with power
capacity. They are designed to take a maximum load for shirt bursts of
time.


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!




The big coils antennas are made more for power capacity than this
"broadband" you speak of as relating to cb antennas.



Those BIG coil antennas aren't as efficient as

the makers make them out to be,


I beg to differ. Many that say "maximum power is 10,000 watts" means
just that. I wouldn't try 15 or 20 in one of those specified for 10.


but they sell

antennas because bigger is "better", right?



Antennas? Yea,,bigger is better.


Lots of smoke and mirrors, eh?


I find more smoke and mirrors from those who have said "it can't be done
on 27" or "cb dx is only playing hammie radio", etc.. And the list goes
on.


One day I'll tell you the one about the mobile

antenna that had water and/or vinagar in the

lower mast.


I see no difference than the hammie
offering to renew one's call sign,,,,for a fee.
For every cb site you cite as an example, it can be countered with a
boneheaded hammie example. When y'all can live and let live, the world
will be a much better place.


The sales slogan was "Ever notice how much

better your signal is

over water?"



Your signal IS much better over water. I have managed to **** off an
entire contingency of holier-than-thous that thought they had it going
on,,,with nothing more than a kick-azz set up and water, water, and a
whole lot more water!


=A0 Honest!! Oh, I just told you!

=A0=A0Let the buyer beware. If if sounds too good to
be true, it probably is.

Jerry



There are ridiculous claims everywhere. Doug Smith's definitive work
with DSPs countered a few angry hammies discussions in here at several
turns, but no one bothered to point out their errors by illustrating
another hammie's proof via years of working with such processors. I
agree,,,,,Let the buyer beware,,their is tons of bull**** flying in this
forum, yet none of it seems to be said with confidence..LOL!