[TowerTalk] Mobile antenna

[George T. Daughters]

On 30 May 00, at 6:50, Bill Hawkins wrote:

> The guy next door gave me a new (almost) marine antenna complete
> with the factory coax, about 15 feet long.
> The antenna is an 8 foot fiberglass whip and is exellent quallity.
> I want to put a rig in the motor home. Wouldn't this whip do a decent 
> job with a tuner rather than having a tapped loading coil?
> Would I have to have a coil also?
> I mostly want to run PSK31 on 10, 15 and 20meters.

Most marine antennas are vertical dipoles or collinear arrays 
designed for VHF use.  It's probably not a simple (marinized) whip.  
I don't think it would do very well on any HF bands, but... TRY IT!

73,
 
George T. Daughters, K6GT

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