[TenTec] Mobile Power Wiring and Plastic Bodies

[Paul Plasters]

I am not sure if it will work yet, but the group I ride with has been
discussing placing a "J" pole on a plastic "flag" stick for our bycycles.
We just haven't tried it yet, so if you do, let us know how it workes.
73 Paul
At 09:57 AM 4/23/99 -0400, Shawn Upton wrote:
>
>I don't know how mobile antennas are created these days, but for plastic
>bodies/bicycles, would some sort of helical-wound dipole work?  That way
>a ground plane wouldn't be needed.  It'd take some work to build,
>winding your own helical.  Or maybe going to some place that sells cheap
>CB antennas (short ones), and figuring out how to connect the two bases
>together to make a dipole, and then using a balanced line tuner.  
>
>Speaking of that, maybe I ought to try that out on my bike.  I have the
>1340 already, just haven't used it for anything.  (No balun yet to make
>a decent antenna, and my cw skills, well, skills are not the word for
>it.)  I plan on building a rollup J-pole for 2m and encasing it in pcv
>for the bike, and that way, when I do public service events in the
>future, I can move around a bit.
>
>Who else has built the 1340?  Has anyone modified them?  I've heard of
>putting a multiturn pot on the frequency control.  
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