[Mobile-Portable] Mobile antenna tuner questions

[w8okn at charter.net]

100 watts may be sent to an antenna, but there is resistance in the wire, the coils, and there are ground losses.  The end result can be that you have an antenna that is as efficient as a wet noodle.  You may send 100 watts there and only 25 watts actually makes it in to the atmosphere.

Sean
W8OKN

---- JV <kt4u at adelphia.net> wrote: 
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>     Sorry, I am going to disagree with you on your statement that a 20 M
> mobile antenna 
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> only radiates 30 watts. I county hunt with a modified Hustler and at the
> base of the antenna I have 
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> 100 watts from my IC-706MKIIG. The antenna is mounted on the roof in the
> center of my Cherokee.
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> JV
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> Hello,
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> In answer to your question, you would be better off
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> buying used Hustler mobile antenna's, they work as
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> well as any. It is essential that mobile antenna's are
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> self resonant at the chosen frequency,using a
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> stainless steel whip and a tuner would be an induced
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> resonancy, and would be a very poor antenna on every
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> band. Even the best mobile antenna's are so
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> inefficient that a 100 watts from the rig means that
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> on 20 metres only about 30 watts or less is being
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> radiated, and on 80 metres it amounts to about 1 watt
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> !
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> G0GQK
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