[Elecraft] Mobile antenna breakthrough?

[Mike Furrey]

 A friend bought a HiQ to put on his own car. His wife took one look at it and said, "OH HELL NO!" It now resides on my pickup. 

Stealth and mobile are two words that don't go together.
73, Mike WA5POK
 

    On Saturday, August 19, 2017 7:49 PM, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
 

 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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