[Icom] [Re] High Sierra and Suburban Again

[Dave Jeffries]

And another major point is the cross guy to insure that when
you're traveling in a cross wind from your left your whip
isn't
going to spear the windshield or the Thermo King of a
tractor-trailer
rig you're meeting (or the front end of somebody's RV).
(they get SO upset when you take out their front
window.............)

Actually I use something different to insure this.  A PVC
stand off.

Since my antenna is mounted on the rear/side of my explorer, I
have a
short piece of 1/2" PVC (painted black) with a hole in one end
for the
whip and a piece of old leather belt fastened to the other
end.
The belt is inserted in the back (upward opening) door of the
explorer.
A short piece of PVC wrapped up in the end of the belt keeps
it from
popping out with the door closed.  This allows some antenna
flex
forward and back without allowing the antenna to flex to the
sides.

My forward guy string (nylon) runs to a 3" magnet  with an
eyebolt
in it.  The magnet usually sits one the left side of the cowl
between
the windshield and the hood. That way I can just reach out and
grab
the string to pull the whip down for drive-through tellers,
ATMs,
MacDonald's, Carports, etc.
It's also easy to re-position the magnet if I anticipate
extended use at an
increased angle (NVIS, etc.)

Dave J
sd0044@enetis.net
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----- Original Message -----
Subject: [Icom] [Re] High Sierra and Suburban Again
>
> >>>Does anyone besides CBers guy these things??
Unnecessary, I hope?
> ;-)<<<  ---(((((((speaking of forward guy lines, we
think)))))))--(drj)---
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> I dunno about the High Sierra,, but take it from a guy who
runs homebrew
> 160 mobile whips.
> Eventually, you NEED to guy. And worse.
> A heavy loading coil on a skinny whip not only needs guys to
deal with
> acceleration, but often it needs a stand-off arm to keep it
from slamming
> forward on DEcelleration.
> A big loading coil slamming into the body IS an ugly
situation...   not to
> mention a whip that nails the guy behind you when ya leave a
light.
> I've wrecked MORE loading coils that way...    <<smile>>
> It ain't pretty,  but it gets necessary sometimes.
> Right now, I'm trying to figger out how to cope with a
bumper mount for a
> Ford F-150 that won't block the tailgate, and allows me to
add a base
> matching coil box.
> Mr. T., W9LBB