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May 21st 04, 08:52 AM

(Jim) wrote in message ...
i have experience with converters. i even built one with eight crystal
sockets to cover several bands! just calculate the crystal needed to
cover whatever you want to hear. my advise is to keep your portable and
put your time into rigging an outside antenna for your car, perhaps a
modified cb antenna. the converters work but are a pain to calculate
what frequency you are on. the portable radio will beat it on
convenience and performance, no matter how cheap it is.

Thanks!

Thats probably the least expensive and most practical solution.

( I don't know anything about crystals !)

This car is mostly fiberglass or plastic....
I tried clipping a wire from the antenna (not the external antenna
input) to an old magnetic cb antenna we had laying around in the
garage with my steel car.
It worked great till I brought the radio inside the car =-(
Once that antenna gets inside the car out goes the reception.

Would the fact that I didn't use the external antenna input have made
a difference?
This car doesn't have any good place good to attach a magnetic cb
antenna either.
Ya think a wire to the regular car radio antenna going to the
external input would work ?