Now that's inovative thinking! Thanks Hal. I'll give your suggestion a
closer look.
But I'll swap the warm coat for bottle of sunscreen and a pair of
sunglasses..
It's summer here in Sydney Australia!!
Cheers..

Hal Rosser wrote in message
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"Graeme" wrote in message
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Hi All..
I'm wishing to operate portable from a mountain top location
which has excellent 360 degree unobstructed views, and would be ideal
for
the odd weekend of amateur radio operation when I get the chance.
Problem
is, there are no trees at that location to use as mounting points for
wire
antennas. I'm considering building a vertical antenna using aluminium
tubing
that I could telescope together to a height of approx 16 to 17 feet.
This
would allow me to tune the antenna to any band between 14MHz and 29MHz
by
adjusting the length, and use my cars body as a ground plane. Problem
is,
I
have no idea how to afix a 16 foot vertical antenna to the top of my
little
four cylinder car!
Can anyone suggest a simple way to do this with a minimum cash outlay?
I'd also be interested to hear of other suitable antenna ideas.
I'm very keen to get back on the bands after an absence of several
years,
and operation from home is out of the question.

get a cb antenna (102" whip) then make it longer by putting another whip
at
the end of it (use a small pipe with a couple of set-screws as a
coupling.) - take a warm coat - its probably cold at the mountaintop this
time of year.




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