On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:17:22 -0500, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
wrote:

"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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In article ,
Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick wrote:

You still didn't give any useful information. No surpise since
you have none. For an average of the cb band running 1/4 wave
the antennas should be spaced 54 inches apart. Use a
commercially produced cophase harness if you can find it. Make
sure you match the SWR and you will out do any other mobile
off the front or rear.

Top

Thanks Top!

I think that Top's calculations (and recommendations) are a bit off?

I'm a "single antenna" guy myself.

I think, in a truck, at least, that "big radio" is synonymous with "big
wris****ch". :-)

We can't mount the antennae high or center, because the 13', 6" height of
the truck is where the low bridges start.

Also, most tractors have this horrific system that intergrates AM/FM with
the CB coax.

A CB stick on the left mirror and an AM/FM on the right, and a splitter in
the coax, so I always run my own coax seperately.

And I have a cellular antenna on one side, any way, for dual plane signal
boost, and it has to be 8" (I think) away from other sticks.

But hhhhhere's a question for the braintrust:

I'm after a (mobile) VHF radio that's common to northern (i.e., the Yukon,
and Northwest Territories) Canadian truckers- who don't monitor CB bands.

(info http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=171741

I'm sure, as a sine wave challenged layman, that I can't use the same
antenna and coax as my CB?


No dumb****.
As I have tried to explain to you once before, DO NOT buy one of those
radios. If you get caught with it in the USA alone, and are
transmitting on it, no license? Bye bye. Pay the $10,000 fine lose the
radio.

Every trucking company in Canada that uses them has a Canadian license
to operate them with. They are not like CB's. They are commercial
business radios.

I trust maybe now you'll listen to one of the radio experts for a
change.

Would one of you in the radio groups who knows Canadian radios please
explain this to the jerk?
He thinks that because he's a trucker, he can have any damn radio he
wants in his truck.