[Antennas] Re: RE: [Mobile-Portable] Thoughts on inverted "C" on car?

[Elliott Olson]

Hello DavidE,

Another idea if you don't need the taper would be the fiberglass tent
poles with elastic in the middle. If you can't get enough height with
one, add sections from another. And they're made to bend (dome tents).

Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 12:41:12 PM, you wrote:

DB> Hey that's another great way to skin a cat!

DB> WorldRadio (a' la the ham magazine) sells a 4 foot collapsible 20 foot
DB> fiberglass pole... but it may not bend enough to get under the
DB> overpasses...it's a tapered pole and about 1 or 1-1/4 inches at the
DB> base...good for mobile/portable, though, I am sure.

DB> David
DB> w7dbh


DB> na4fm-list@towncorp.net writes:
>>I haven't completed the project yet, but I bought a Crappie Pole (16')
>>from Wallmart for about $20.  I plan to create a bumper mount that can
>>support it.  While I am experimenting with solid aluminum wire, you
>>might try with copper, but I plan to run the wire from the mount thru
>>the top loop on the antenna, use "guy string" to pull it towards the
>>front bumper as I have seen military jeeps use in the past (One wire to
>>left front bumper, one to the right forming an inverted vee with the
>>string.)  The whip will be pulled down enough to be legal on the
>>highways and maybe just a few inches more.  This will give me a full 1/4
>>wave on 20 meters.  Since I am not using a tuner, I am wrapping some of
>>the wire around the base near the connection with wide-spaced coil.  The
>>pole is about 1 1/2 ft short.  
>>
>>I understand that there are also 20' crappie poles by the same
>>manufacturer, but Walmart doesn't sell them.  With a 20 Footer, I would
>>not need the coil.  Since you have a tuner, you would have a great all
>>band antenna.
>>
>>Buck
>>NA4FM


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