[450] 10 meter mobile installation.

[William Knapp / KC1WJ]

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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