[Antennas] need help with HF mobile mag mount

Tue, 29 Oct 2002 04:07:34 +0000

Armin,
  I assume you are using a mast below the resonator.
If not, it will never be a good, much less it won't even
be a poor antenna.
  Obviously, if the mag mount is not connected to the frame of the
vehicle (the paint gets in the way) it will not have the counterpoise
needed for a vertical antenna.
  I used a hustler at one time, but I got tired of not being heard
and not being able to hear. The (IMHO) only way to go is via the Bugcatcher
route. The ain't necessarily pretty ( but then beauty is in the eye of the
beholder) but it does TALK!
  Mobie DXCC in just casual operating was not that hard to accomplish.
73, Tom K5IID

At 21:05 10/28/02 -0500, Armin Hachmer wrote:
>has anyone had good results?
>I am using a hustler 20m element
>on 4 big magmount pads in the middle of a minivan roof.  a manual tuner
>reads flat. results are lousy. it hears well but does not get out well. 
>the local radio store told me mag mounts dont
>couple well enough to give a good ground plane.
>
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Tom Horton	
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