[Elecraft] Mobile antenna breakthrough?

[Phil Hystad]

I can’t believe you still use non-conductive pillows.  It is hard to think of you in the same way anymore.

PEH

> On Aug 19, 2017, at 4:15 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> Some of us (admittedly, very few) see invisible mobile antennas as the holy Grail. We engage in a decades-long search for an antenna that our significant other won't scorn. Or sabotage.
> 
> My own search just got an unexpected boost when I realized that a 4 foot loaded whip would fit fully inside the plastic cartop carrier on our Honda CRV. As we speak the whip is resting on a pile of nonconductive pillows and towels. I have yet to measure their dielectric effects. Six feet of coax snakes through the sunroof and is then retained by the passenger-side visor. 
> 
> The KX2 fits snugly in a dashboard compartment that until this morning held my YL's Bonnie Rait CDs. More on that later if necessary.  
> 
> I've been listening to the NA QSO party on 20 meters as we drive. Not the best Mobile antenna available, but one step closer to nirvana. 
> 
> Wayne
> N6KR
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