A couple of thoughts, derived from a million miles of HF mobling. Remember, most of the usable radiation ... by far ... from any center-loaded antenna is from the portion -below- the coil, and the "Q" of the loading coil is -extremely- important.
Read Alan, K0BG's mobiling website ... a must-read- for any serious mobiler. Hustler's mobile antennas are always at or near the bottom of listed results at mobile antenna "shoot-outs". Their coil forms are very lossy and the white shrink tubing used to cover the coils fits so poorly that "standing" water will collect under the cover. I once literally had steaming water dripping out of one after running 100W while driving in the rain on 75M. (;-( 73! Ken - K0PP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Matt Zilmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh... probably not. I've seen a couple Civics with Hi-Qs. Both had ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
