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

**** you, dickhead.

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.

Sure.

What's the fine for my 250 watt kicker?

Don't forget to add that in.

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.

I am.

They said the radios were available, the private frequencies, not the
radios, are licensed, and the freqs I'm interested are available to the
public.

And the license, if you want one, is easy and cheap.

Were your mother and father related -before- the wedding?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Because you have an uncanny resemblence to the Deliverance banjo boy.

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.

Jesus, are you stupid.

Try reading the thread that I cited, that flatly proves you wrong.

And as I already stated, and you apparently forgot, the radio would be for
emergencies only, and that I would have no reason to use it in the states.

Your memory is just shot, ****head, have you ever met a guy named John
Francis?

Or been to Australia?

I find it amazing that you'd be afraid of an FCC fine, that I have a
one-in-ten-million chance of -ever- receiving, while you publically brag
about being in possession of 45,000 child pornography pictures.

Amazing. Simply amazing.

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