Gary KW4Z wrote in
:

....
rejection or level of noise with some was tremendous. I wouldn't take
anything away from Ham's building their own antennas and feel that's
the best way but I do miss the jumps in design account of the CB Boom
of the 70's.
....

I don't know how many of our new 6 hour hams I have worked on 40m who are
using a Station Master (a 11m half wave with a base parallel tuned matching
network) fed with 20m or so of RG58C/U and an ATU on 40m, and
astonishlingly, VSWR is less than 1.01!

We owe a lot to that CB technology!

Owen