Go Full Wave or Go Home!

grinthock · Post by **grinthock** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:28 pm

Sometimes the only way to transport an antenna home is on the car.

Ouch.

(large pic warning)

http://www.grinthock.com/2MFullWave.jpg

ESDA20 · Post by **ESDA20** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:37 am

That poor Impala. I would never do anything like that to my baby.

jedi_saber · Post by **jedi_saber** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:29 am

omg...parking garages and such must not be a place this dude frequents a lot...
Is this an official vehicle? Anyways, I think VA state police uses pretty long antennae too (I am sure ppl will correct me with the exact specs on VASP)

apco25 · Post by **apco25** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:05 pm

That's really not that bad - at least it looks like it was done professionally.

ESDA20 · Post by **ESDA20** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:32 pm

I wouldn't want to be in that car during a lightning storm.

007 · Post by **007** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:53 pm

VSP uses Antenna Specialist NMO mount based loaded antennas, nothing fancy...only reason I know is I did something very similar on mine, based on the the below pic:

And this pic is just because I think this car looks good:

jedi_saber wrote:omg...parking garages and such must not be a place this dude frequents a lot...
Is this an official vehicle? Anyways, I think VA state police uses pretty long antennae too (I am sure ppl will correct me with the exact specs on VASP)

Anyway, I'm surprised that the decklid hasn't started to peel back like a sardine can....I wouldn't even consider that on anyting less than a ball mount.

VE7NGR · Post by **VE7NGR** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:02 pm

It didn't strike me as being that big - but then I've got a 10.5 foot antenna on my Dakota, with the lower 4.5 feet being 2.5 inches in diameter... (it's an HF antenna for my ham radio).

What did catch my eye was the way it's laying back in the wind - that must really mess up the radiation pattern.

BTW, the file name calls it a full wave - not likely. While adding length does add gain, anything beyond 5/8 wave has a rather high angle of radiation. If you want more gain from a vertical, you need a collinear (got one of those on my Dakota too

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KitN1MCC · Post by **KitN1MCC** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:49 am

that VA car is one nice lookin car

kydeputy1463 · Post by **kydeputy1463** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:17 am

Not on subject, but I think the Kentucky State Police has the nicest looking car scheme of any state police in the country. I have noticed this by looking at the complete hotwheel car set in the shop.

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/westsid ... rs/ksp.htm

grinthock · Post by **grinthock** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:13 am

I was simply transporting the antenna for a fellow amateur back to his place, it happened to be an NMO... I was actually worried it would rip the trunk.

gws · Post by **gws** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:20 pm

You need a real whip to stand out.

nc5p · Post by **nc5p** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:24 pm

I had a 16 ft. collapsable antenna (old military) on my old '82 S-10 for HF, mounted on the top of the tool box. I would open it up all the way when parked for better performance. Once I was over in East Texas and forgot to run it down. I ended up going down the road dragging a few hundred feet of phone drop wire that it "caught" between the poles. Heard this funny sound after a few miles and stopped to my horror finding the "trailing wires". Actually, the antenna survived without any damage.

Doug

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:13 pm

HAHAHAHA. Now, did you un-hook it and high tail it out of town or politely wait for the telephone company?

x1sspic · Post by **x1sspic** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:48 pm

that's not an antenna! That's an electric powered Chevy

nc5p · Post by **nc5p** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:55 am

that's not an antenna! That's an electric powered Chevy

No, the only electricity it "caught" was static during lightning storms. The bnc connector when unplugged from the radio would "pop-pop-pop" across the end. Interestingly enough, a truck that looks just like the one I had is electric powered. A local ham drives it around town. The cab is full of Motorola radios, too!
http://www.qsl.net/k5lxp/mobile/QSTarti ... ticle.html