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738
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 9:10 pm: | 
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I remember back in the 70's they had a Horizontal luggage rack type CB antenna for vans. Is there anything like that or similar out there these days? Well I guess If I have to I can put a PDL II type antenna up there when it cools off! Thats the great thing about the Desert you can run around with big antennas! Seriously I would like to look into any there may be. If you have a link please post it.
73 J |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 10:05 pm: |
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cushcraft made a line of SQUALO antennas there is one made today it is NOT made by them that is sold by AES but i doubt it would work moble. Now i have and use a cushcraft 6 meter squalo ant here at the house it was made 30 years ago.... |
Znut
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 11:27 am: |
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This company manufactures a 10 meter horizontal omni antenna. I would think it could be easily tuned for CB band.
www.parelectronics.com |
Pig040
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 11:59 am: |
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Only problem out here in the desert ,738, is you put those big antennas up, and mother nature keeps trying her best to take them down!!! |
Taz
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 2:51 pm: |
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No kidding Pig040. |
738
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 3:09 pm: |
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Thanks for the Par Electronics antenna idea! I forgot about them I use their 6M loop works great. I'm going to send off an e-mail to them. It does get windy here in Las Vegas but not like the the 3 Hurricanes my antennas survived when I was working/living in Coastal Connecticut! After that Hugo one, these dirt devils are nothing!
J |
738
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 4:05 pm: |
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Reply from Par regarding tuning to 11M:
Sorry, it will not go that low.
Dale W4OP
for PAR Electronics, Inc.
Is it true or a CB hating Ham, that is thee question. Knowing how my 6M loop from them is made I can't think of why a little extra lenght would not do the trick? The tubing may have to be fabricated a little, but thats the fun of it! This has got me going, I may just order one and try it after I recover from purchasing the 142GTL I just ordered!
L |
738
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 4:33 pm: |
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I e-mailed him back asking exactly what the tunning issue was and got this reply:
The matchbox will not allow a good match. Using a tuner with it is NOT a solution unless very low power is to be used.
Dale W4OP
So if you guys got any ideas let me know. Yes I did think of mounting the 102's off the sides, ha., ha.....Street Cleaners! |
Znut
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 5:48 pm: |
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738,
Did you ask them if they would consider offering one for 11m?
I realize that it is pretty good size, but it is really not that bad, considering the frequency. There would probably be others who are interested for a number of reasons, for base or mobile use. |
738
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 6:38 pm: |
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It would be nice, it's not that big for larger vehicals. Just think how well it would work on mobil SSB DXing! I was going to tell them about other people may be interested but I have a feeling it's almost a auto-reply: note the "for par electronics" had to really pry to get the slightly more detailed relpy and notice the reference to power like we use a lot or somethingJ Their site is not very good, I did not see any spec.s, but will look into it more after I rest. I'm sure it would be easy to do, I mean come on we are talking about a adjustment of less than 1MHz I bet it would work ok the way it is? I will try to find out more and post.
73 |
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