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Cbblackbeard
Intermediate Member
Username: Cbblackbeard
Post Number: 202
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 8:06 pm: | 
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My 15 year old neighbor told me the other day that he would like to get a CB. He would be using it as a base station since he doesn't drive yet. I thought about donating a Cobra base that I have lying around and seeing if I could find a back of the set antenna. I don't know if his parents would let him put up an external antenna. I know he won't be able to talk very far, but it's a start. Does anyone have any other ideas for a set up? |
Hotwire
Senior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 2370
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 7:51 am: |
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Any mobile with a decent recieve and a power supply would work. A back of set antenna is going to be a let down. A 102 inch whip on the chain link fence would be better!
KEEP IT REAL!
Kenny
cef491(27.115lsb)
2sf491(27.555usb)
Indiana
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Milkman21218
Intermediate Member
Username: Milkman21218
Post Number: 352
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 12:43 pm: |
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A back of set is more than a let down. Hotwire is right. You could also use a dipole. |
Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 1091
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 5:29 am: |
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yea i used 2 run a back of radio antenna .its
a big time let down.id get a small magnet mount
antenna and mount it to.i mounted a lil wil on
a metal pipe on roof on my parents house.as for
a radio id keep it simple to start with like a
cora 19 or uniden pro510
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
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Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 1460
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 1:28 pm: |
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You say he's a neighbor and sence your going to donate a radio might as will run the coax out his windows to an extra base antenna on your house..
HEY come on now any amount of coax works we all know that. roger roger
STARFACE
CEF#476
KI4NBE
HAM#181
CVC#Ø14
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Vanillagorilla
Senior Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 1050
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 3:15 pm: |
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One of those new little Cobras and a 3a power supply (that blue Cobra19 that Lon raved about months ago sounds like a nice AM starter?)
and as Izzy said....if a vertical will offend the Mom and Dad...A dipole in a tree was one of my first homebuilt and talked well barefoot 15mi at 20ft inverted V. ( can you say NO TVI?  )
Hank~CEF559/CEFHAM242
KC2RIW
Eastern Long Island NY
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