[Mobile-Portable] Mobile antenna tuner questions

[JV]

    Sorry, I am going to disagree with you on your statement that a 20 M
mobile antenna 
only radiates 30 watts. I county hunt with a modified Hustler and at the
base of the antenna I have 
100 watts from my IC-706MKIIG. The antenna is mounted on the roof in the
center of my Cherokee.
JV
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Hello,
 
In answer to your question, you would be better off
buying used Hustler mobile antenna's, they work as
well as any. It is essential that mobile antenna's are
self resonant at the chosen frequency,using a
stainless steel whip and a tuner would be an induced
resonancy, and would be a very poor antenna on every
band. Even the best mobile antenna's are so
inefficient that a 100 watts from the rig means that
on 20 metres only about 30 watts or less is being
radiated, and on 80 metres it amounts to about 1 watt
!
 
G0GQK