Another CB radio story.
If you remember, the big game was best distance. One operator out in
Ohio had attached a linear, a roof antenna with rotor and was talking at
quite a distance to someone down in the river valley. With the rotor he
could simulate fading and such. He claimed he was mobile using the
classic fender mounted whip antenna and said one day he had come from
the hardware store with one of the copper float balls for a toilet
valve. He was standing beside the antenna listening to the radio and
when he touched the float to the whip and it boosted his reception. He
claimed to mount it on the end of the whip and the capacitive loading
greatly improved performance. CB operators were a pretty naive and
gullible group. Shortly the hardware stores were out of toilet floats as
they started appearing on the ends of whip antennas. The exercise ended
after someone turning a corner took out the windshield of a passing car.
Bob
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