March 27th 07, 08:30 AM
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First recorded activity by RadioBanter: Jan 2007
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home made Mobile Ant
Ed wrote:
I have a old 2 piece hollow 11 ft surf rod in the shed and need a
mobile antenna and a sand flag on my Jeep Wrangler. I thought I would
be able to do both with the fishing rod. Question 1. How much minimum
wire would I need to load it up on all Hf Freqs (I have a tuner).
Question 2. Could I bottom load it with a coil? It would be connected
to the tuner with RG 58 coax (about 10 ft). Lushy
VK3HDL
Regarding Question 2, absolutely! Personally, that's the way I
went with a similar project. I took much pleasure in reading Nylo's
website at:
http://www.qsl.net/n1lo/mobilhf.pdf
Also, plenty of information in the handbook, and if you have a
recent copy of the handbook, ( or was it the ARRL Antenna Manual?),
the disk in the back contains a little ARRL program called
"mobile.exe" which would be right up the alley for your project.
Good Luck.
Ed K7AAT
Thanks mate will have a look
Lushy
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