[450] 10 meter mobile installation.

[William Knapp / KC1WJ]

That's cool - but this has to go on the roof of her car, she has a hatchback.
6 feet might be a bit of a stretch.



Quoting Thomas Moore <piper925 at att.net>:

> It's closer to 6' long.
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> Bill, it has the 3/8" threaded end on it.
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> Hey Tom -
> How does it mount? I have 3 pad and 4 pad magnet mounts. your  
> antenna might be the solution. Chris - K1MAL is letting me borrow a  
> known good Wilson mag mount antenna this week-end to determine if  
> it's a problem with my antenna or something with the vehicle or  
> grounding. Thanks Chris!
> And thanks Tom for the offer.
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> Quoting Thomas Moore <piper925 at att.net>:
>
>> 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
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> Quoting David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>> insufficient ground for the antenna maybe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:42 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ  
>>>> <kc1wj at kc1wj.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Quoting chris <cralt at comcast.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Sounds like you have a bad connection in the feedline or the jumper.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 5:14 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  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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