11 meter dipole for an S-10?
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violator_
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11 meter dipole for an S-10?
I was just wondering if anyone has tried this. CB antennas in the area where I live get extra attention from LE. I would like to be discreet.
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the_junkie
the law enforcement may see them, but what do they do? I would reccomend a wilson 5k...violator_ wrote:I was just wondering if anyone has tried this. CB antennas in the area where I live get extra attention from LE. I would like to be discreet.
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Night Crawler
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A dipole for 11 meters is around 17 feet long. How would you mount it on a S-10 horizontal or vertical not very practical. As suggested get the wilson.
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If the cop was an #$%, he might whine about the hieght of the antenna if it was close to being over legal limit. But unless your breaking the law or doing something stupid, it shouldn't be a problem. My 102" measures 13' 6" from ground to tip and sticks out like a sore thumb, and the cops don't do squat!
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It's not the cops having a problem w/ the antenna itself. They just seem to be extra alert for speeding, lightbulbs above the rear license plate, and other crap like that if they see an antenna. I take it there must have been some real punks running around here w/ cb antennas before I moved here. I wasn't thinking of using a full-wave dipole either...lol. I was going to center-feed a 1/4 wave if anything. I could just see going down the road pulling a trailer w/ an interted V 20 ft in the air...lol 
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Heck tonight I installed my new Tram 3 mag mount base with a 102 whip atop my S-10.....this thing now sits atop of my cab and it's 14 feet in the air. And I had a cop following me and I though for sure he was going to pull me over but he didn't. Even better I found my antenna doesn't hit the stop lights in our local town.Mikey B wrote:If the cop was an #$%, he might whine about the hieght of the antenna if it was close to being over legal limit. But unless your breaking the law or doing something stupid, it shouldn't be a problem. My 102" measures 13' 6" from ground to tip and sticks out like a sore thumb, and the cops don't do squat!
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Night Crawler
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How's it getting out setup like that?Turbo-T wrote: Heck tonight I installed my new Tram 3 mag mount base with a 102 whip atop my S-10.....this thing now sits atop of my cab and it's 14 feet in the air.
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Turbo-T
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I don't know how much better it gets out. I tried doing some radio checks and no one was around. Then when skip rolled in I tried making a few DX contacts but to no avail.Night Crawler wrote: How's it getting out setup like that?
I do believe it "hears' a little better now, as I seemed to be getting in a few extra signals. Then again the radio is a Cobra 148 GTL which I believe has some ears on it already....it picks up signals up to 20 miles away.
Before I had my antenna mounted to the truck's bulkhead with about a foot obscured by the cab/rear glass.
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