> If I'd gone to that much trouble to generate power, I wouldn't want it
> wasted heating a loading coil and the ground under my vehicle. So I'd use
> an antenna that was more efficient than the usual short mobile whip. Like,
> maybe, a balloon-supported 1/2- or 5/8ths-wave vertical. What do you do?
>
> -Chuck W1HIS
The pictures that I have seen on the "Shoot-out" web site indicate that
large diameter 108 inch whips are used. This is 1/4 wave length on 11 meters.
No loading coil is needed, but robust corona balls are.
(((73)))
Phil, K5PC
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