From: "Rob Schonk" To: Subject: Re: UL: RE: Re: Antennas Date: Saturday, July 15, 2000 4:39 AM Larry: My Challenger I came with a center loaded CB antenna mounted on the root tube just behind the wind screen. I bought a stainless steel replacement whip from Radio Shack for about $7.00, trimed it to 22" and then fine tuned it with a SWR meter. Works great. Rob http://geocities.com/robschonk ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Larry Davis" Reply-To: fly-ul@majordomo.hughes.net To: Subject: Re: UL: RE: Re: Antennas Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:02:38 -0500 True, except many CB antennas have the loading coil in the middle or top of the antenna rod. If the loading coil can be removed (that gray bulge that's sometimes in the middle or top of the CB antenna, then it will work. Larry Davis http://www.bpsinet.com/ldavis/airplane.html Challenger1 CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rory Davis" To: Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:34 PM Subject: Re: UL: RE: Re: Antennas > > > I was in Radio Shack the other day and noticed > > a short whip style CB antenna with an RG58/BNC cable. > > This has a bracket for vehicle mounting (such as riveting > > to a truck mirror). > > > Could this be cut down to approx. 22 inch and used > > for an Icom A3 or other handheld? It appears to use the > > bracket/vehicle as a ground plane. > > As I recall it was only about 12-15 dollars. > > Not unless you remove the loading coil from the base of the antenna. The > reason the antenna is so short is because of that coil. Good luck. > > Rory ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com