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Roof bars. will they conduct electricity?
NeilWilson:
Small bracket, close to the door but not not too close to foul the rear wiper. Then the cable through a hole in the door and around the top side of the trim to the CB on the dash.
Based it on an article in http://www.expeditionexchange.com/cbantenna/
Neil
Tyke:
--- Quote ---You can counteract some of the SWR with suitable aerial tuning
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Thats true mate. I didn't want to start frightening people but as long as we are aware of what we are doing we usually get by. There may be a loss in efficiency of the set due to the high SWR's but considering cb's are generaly used on 4x4's for local comms then we aint looking for finely tuned DX type transmissions.
Just to get things back into perspective, I used to contact the States regularily on the older, illegal, 27Mhz AM with a quarter wave mobile antennae stuck in the middle of a biscuit tin when the skip was good during the peak sunspot cycles - was doing better than the local Ham on his 150w HF rig :lol:
So we dont have to worry too much about fitting them to vehicles :wink:
NeilWilson:
That is a pretty good skip by any definition, what was the rx quality like ?
Neil
hobbit:
Aluminium is a better conductor than steel, that is what the expensive wire is made from
Damonski:
I recall from reading various other posts that fitting those is not the easiest job in the world :(
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