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December 4th 08, 07:00 AM
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Trucker antenna
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richard wrote in : On 2 Dec 2008 06:15:20 GMT, Top wrote: (Dave Platt) wrote in : In article , Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick wrote: I suspect you'd get more bang for your buck by simply mounting a single antenna in a better location (e.g. roof mount) and paying attention to making the antenna's grounding to the chassis/groundplane as direct and solid as possible. Cophase being omindirectional? You need to do some more reading before you try to correct anything. IF the cophased antennas are less than 1/4 wave apart, there is virtually no change. I love it when you make an ass of yourself. Unfortunatly for you he is correct about cophased antennas less than 1/4 lambda. What the antennas do is to merge the distorted wave patterns of each antenna into one pattern. Each antenna displays a slightly distorted pattern that favors the side of your truck that it is mounted on. The two patterns equal one centered pattern. Dave N |
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December 4th 08, 06:31 PM
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"David G. Nagel" wrote in
: Top wrote: richard wrote in : On 2 Dec 2008 06:15:20 GMT, Top wrote: (Dave Platt) wrote in : In article , Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick wrote: I suspect you'd get more bang for your buck by simply mounting a single antenna in a better location (e.g. roof mount) and paying attention to making the antenna's grounding to the chassis/groundplane as direct and solid as possible. Cophase being omindirectional? You need to do some more reading before you try to correct anything. IF the cophased antennas are less than 1/4 wave apart, there is virtually no change. I love it when you make an ass of yourself. Unfortunatly for you he is correct about cophased antennas less than 1/4 lambda. What the antennas do is to merge the distorted wave patterns of each antenna into one pattern. Each antenna displays a slightly distorted pattern that favors the side of your truck that it is mounted on. The two patterns equal one centered pattern. Dave N Forgive me and my apologies to Dave Platt. This was not meant for him. |
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