I've run HF mobile since the 1950's and over the years I found out what works and what dosn't. The worst mobile ant I ever used was the type with bottom loading coil. It was the next best thing to a dummy load. Later I tried the top loaded Hustlers and they were a little better but not by much.
Then when the Lakeview Ham Sticks came on the market, the increased efficiency of that design was amazing. I used them 40 to 10M with excellent results. Worked a lot of DX on 20M while in motion using the Ham Stick. The 80M ham stick is mostly loading coil but it did work better than any other 80M mobile ant I had tried. On the motor home I finally settled on using a 40M ham stick on one side and a 20M ham stick on the other side of the roof. That way I could switch bands on the road. When spending the night on the road I always tried to stop where there was a tree nearby to throw up a 35 ft wire Simply unscrewed the ham stick and used that wire with a long wire tuner in the vehicle on all bands. That of course was much better than a 7 ft long Ham Stick. Its no wonder these hams who are using the center loaded screwdriver ant's need to have a 500w amp in the vehicle to be heard :-) Frank W7is ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
