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He mounted the antenna on the fender (because the trunk was fiberglass).
With that in mind, how does the trunk lid being fiberglass lessen the
capacitance of the circuit?
Doesn't the fender 'take the place' of the trunk lid?
I would reccommend someone using a metal trunk lid as a mounting surface
to
install some copper wire jumpers from the lid to the rest of the body.
Some
folks even go ahead and install copper jumpers to join all parts of the
body
to each other and to the frame, motor, and neg battery terminal.


I am the king of grounding..
One note on that...most tail pipes on cars/trucks are hung with rubber
hangers in the middle of them so that they can flex. What you end up with is
a large diameter pipe (sometimes they match up on a frequency that you use),
mostly around 10 meter band but I guess It could be any number of
frequency's depending on the length of pipe)
I have found cases where the radio was picking up, what sounded like
ignition noise but after the tail pipe was grounded in a couple of places,
the noise dissapeared.

Joe