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Old November 4th 07, 03:00 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default ANTENNA QUESTION

On Nov 3, 5:54 pm, "John Doe" wrote:
If you can't contribute anything positive to this question, then stay out of
it, with your trash!

I have a 10m base loaded mag mount antenna, that I had to put a piece of
felt over the magnet as not to scratch a new vehicle.

When I did this I apparently changed the capacitance between the mag mount
and the roof of the vehicle. Someone suggested that I might want to replace
the felt with either a large balloon or a large prophylactic as it is
thinner and the capacitance would then return to almost where it should be.

Positive comments only!


Consider drilling an NMO mount and get the Larsen whip for 27-30 MHz.