I bought one... it's an antenna
 

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=131532





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"D. Martin" wrote in message
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Duh, any specific band, or is it a magic antenna that will receive anything
from AM to satellite?

It's a mobile army surplus antenna, this one is a little more
advanced... http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=170530





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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:34:50 -0700, (D. Martin) wrote
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It's a mobile army surplus antenna, this one is a little more
advanced... http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=170530


That's an antenna for the VRC-12 family of radios. Remote-control
switched tuning from 30 to 75 MHz. It won't tune down to 27 MHz, but
it could be modified to do so with a few component changes.






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"Frank Gilliland" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:34:50 -0700, (D. Martin) wrote
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It's a mobile army surplus antenna, this one is a little more
advanced... http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=170530


That's an antenna for the VRC-12 family of radios. Remote-control
switched tuning from 30 to 75 MHz. It won't tune down to 27 MHz, but
it could be modified to do so with a few component changes.



Probably not very efficient? Might make a better 6 meter antenna? Just
speculating.

No that antenna will work just fine, all it needs a two element matching
circuit.

The shorter antennas have matching circuits. Antennas from 2 feet to 22
feet have been matched no sweat. A 9 foot 1/4 wavelength antenna is used
for its close impedance to 50 ohms not because of its length is magic.

We use to buy the old Surplus Army Tank Antennas for the channel X wars
in the San Fernando Valley. We won of course. They were about 13 or 17
feet long. We just made a quick matching circuit from the ARRL Handbook.
And it looked great! All tho some of the normal people didn't like its
looks, but that made it better.

Jay in the Mojave


U Know Who wrote:
"Frank Gilliland" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:34:50 -0700, (D. Martin) wrote
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It's a mobile army surplus antenna, this one is a little more
advanced... http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=170530


That's an antenna for the VRC-12 family of radios. Remote-control
switched tuning from 30 to 75 MHz. It won't tune down to 27 MHz, but
it could be modified to do so with a few component changes.




Probably not very efficient? Might make a better 6 meter antenna? Just
speculating.

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:58:28 GMT, "U Know Who"
wrote in
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"Frank Gilliland" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:34:50 -0700, (D. Martin) wrote
in :

It's a mobile army surplus antenna, this one is a little more
advanced... http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=170530


That's an antenna for the VRC-12 family of radios. Remote-control
switched tuning from 30 to 75 MHz. It won't tune down to 27 MHz, but
it could be modified to do so with a few component changes.



Probably not very efficient? Might make a better 6 meter antenna? Just
speculating.


Actually, the length isn't too far away from 27 MHz if the matching
unit is bypassed. It still requires matching but not much. The remote
control would be too much of a pain to wire for a CB, so I would just
rip out the guts and put in a simple L-pad and SWR coupler.






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