"James barrett" wrote in message
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Hi, I was looking up antennas on google, and found a radio shop's
antenna page. These antennas have some kind of coil welded onto them.
Are these what you would call loading coils? And by the picture I
can't tell if the coil is at the bottom, middle or top of the antenna.
Any guesses?

http://www.mpaudio1.com/cbmobileantennas.html

Probably the bottom. The antennas are all shorter than a quarter wave and a
bottom loading coil would be likely.

What's with those power ratings? Thousands of times over legal CB and
unbelievable, too!