SWR has nothing in the world to do with how you get out.

Hence is no indication to anyone as to the suitability of an antenna.

"Rich" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:31:31 GMT, John wrote:

Greetings all
I have a 87 Fiero GT - V6 Mid-Engined Plastic car. I have been
considering using an "On-The-Glass" MultiBand antenna (2M / 440Mhz) on
this car. Has anyone done this? what kind of results?

well, i'm using an on-glass dual-band antenna on my jeep wrangler and
i've had very good results with it. will the on-glass antenna perform
the same as a 5/8 wave mounted on a metal automobile roof? nope...but
their performance is better than you might think. swr is virtually
flat on both 2m and 440 and power our is 48+ watts on 2m and 33+ watts
on UHF.

73,
rich, n9dko

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:42:28 -0500, "w4jle" W4JLE(remove this to
wrote:

SWR has nothing in the world to do with how you get out.

Hence is no indication to anyone as to the suitability of an antenna.

its an indication of how well the antenna is matched to the
transmitter. a higher swr most likely results in reduced output
wattage. reduced output power most likely results in reduced range.
all things considered i'd rather have a lower swr than higher.

73,
rich, n9dko

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:31:31 GMT, John wrote:

Greetings all
I have a 87 Fiero GT - V6 Mid-Engined Plastic car. I have been
considering using an "On-The-Glass" MultiBand antenna (2M / 440Mhz) on
this car. Has anyone done this? what kind of results?
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Best and Cheapest antenna for a Fiero is a twinlead J-pole
stuffed inside a pvc pipe,bumper mount,big signal for less than 10bucks.
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Greg Z
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