[450] 10 meter mobile installation.

[Thomas Moore]

I've got an Antron 10/11 meter mobile antenna ....bottom loaded, the "stinger" is about 30" long and adjustable over the entire bands. The thing is about 5' all toll. Needs a good magnet (s). It's yours if ya want it.
 

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try grounding the radio to the frame




On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:15 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ <kc1wj at kc1wj.com> wrote:

Possibly.
>I moved the antenna to different spots on the roof but it didn't make any difference. Her car *is* pretty small, but I ran a crappy radio shack cb mag mount cut to 10m on my old VW Rabbit and it worked fine. Her car is that much smaller.
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>Quoting David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>:
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>insufficient ground for the antenna maybe
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>>On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:42 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ <kc1wj at kc1wj.com>wrote:
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>>I tried a few different "known good" jumpers. The antenna is brand new.
>>>You'd think the feedline would be okay. Bob came over last week-end with
>>>his antenna analyzer, but we just ended up sitting out on the deck shootin'
>>>the shit.
>>>Priorities, priorities.
>>>
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>>>
>>>Quoting chris <cralt at comcast.net>:
>>>
>>> Sounds like you have a bad connection in the feedline or the jumper.
>>>
>>>
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>>>>On Jul 10, 2013, at 5:14 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ wrote:
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>>>> Trying to get things set up in Christine's car.
>>>>
>>>>Cannot tune antenna to under 2/1, made a 5 inch 5 turn choke from
>>>>>coax...no difference. I move my hand close to the rig and the swr goes down
>>>>>and then back up again. Moving the power cord or mic cable wildly effects
>>>>>the swr. I've installed bunches of rigs in cars, but I've never seen this
>>>>>kind of behavior with an antenna.
>>>>>
>>>>>Frustrated.
>>>>>
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