J. Mc Laughlin wrote:
Dear Group:
The embedding of antenna in the windshield (windscreen) must go back to
before 1982. I am sure that I had a student thesis on the topic before
1982. As I recall, the designs worked quite well.

There is nothing inherently sub par in performance for a windshield
mounted antenna. I wouldn't doubt that potential performance can be
better, since you can get more length in the area that no one is going
to put up with in a fender mount antenna.

The student's
experimental antennas were embedded (expensive) until someone allowed a
bunch to fall over and shatter. Then the student found that the same
measured results were obtained by placing the antenna against and outside of
the windshield. Heck, in the real old days antennas were sometimes run
under the car.


Early police mobile antennas were sometimes run on the running boards, IIRC.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -