Thread: 50 MHz and CB?
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Old October 16th 15, 06:43 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default 50 MHz and CB?

gareth wrote:
I wonder if there is any experience out there about cutting down mobile
CB antennae (along with their base loading coils) to make a 50 MHz ground
plane?


As a full size, quarter wave vertical is only 1.5 meters tall at 50 Mhz,
there is no need for a loading coil.


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Jim Pennino