Buy a real 10M mobile antenna and forgeddaboudit ...


"Ken" wrote in message
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I have an old mag mount RS CB antenna with a 24" (approx.) telescopic
whip. It is fitted with an integral audio cable (as the feedline)
terminating in (what else?) a male RCA jack that plugs into the CB's
antenna jack. The CB is rated at 5 watts FM.

The whip can be shortened quite a bit. Is there any reason it
wouldn't resonate on 10M?

Audio cable ain't RG-8/U, but is it enough to handle 30 watts FM on
10M?

Ken KC2JDY

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:43:57 -0500, wrote:
Buy a real 10M mobile antenna and forgeddaboudit ...

Actually, I have some discontinued big megawatt (!!) "truck mirror
mount" CB whips I bought from RS on clearance last year for $1.03
(down from over $50). These can be snipped for 10M, but they are not
as convenient as a mag mount.

Ken KC2JDY
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:01:33 GMT, Ken wrote:

Actually, I have some discontinued big megawatt (!!) "truck mirror
mount" CB whips

Ooops. Before I get inundated with derisive emails, that should have
been "kilowatt."

I just added half a gig of memory to my PC to handle Bill's bloatware
and must have lost perspective of prefixes.

The fact that I have received no comments shows that no one is
surprised that some CB'ers are operating at the megawatt level!

Ken KC2JDY

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Ken wrote:
The fact that I have received no comments shows that no one is
surprised that some CB'ers are operating at the megawatt level!

Some of them think all that forward power is being accepted
by the antenna. :-)
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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Ken wrote:
The fact that I have received no comments shows that no one is
surprised that some CB'ers are operating at the megawatt level!

Some of them think all that forward power is being accepted
by the antenna. :-)

I sometimes stop into CB shops, just for the comic relief.

500W amplifiers, with big heavy cables, and 10A fuses...
5000W antennas, with RG-58 coax in the package..
"ground plane" extenders, consisting of three 3" stubs that screw in to the
antenna near the base..

Just the antenna names are worth a laugh, "Penetrator", "Intruder",
"Dominator"..

Still, I run a CB on long trips, because I've never had any luck getting
road info on the ham bands.

Lately, there's a big trend to tilt the antennas on trucks forward by 20-45
degrees.
Not sure what that's about.

"Dave VanHorn" wrote in message
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Lately, there's a big trend to tilt the antennas on trucks forward by
20-45
degrees.
Not sure what that's about.

They're going for vertical at highway speeds...
s'what I've been told, anyway...
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Steve
KI5YG
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" Stephen Cowell" wrote in message
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"Dave VanHorn" wrote in message
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Lately, there's a big trend to tilt the antennas on trucks forward by
20-45
degrees.
Not sure what that's about.

They're going for vertical at highway speeds...
s'what I've been told, anyway...

Then they've overshot it by about 40 degrees.