[skeeter]

When you calculate your length do you measure the length of the wire strait or after it was wound?
Also, on semi's it's best to run co-phased antennas since we can't mount in the center of the roof for a good ground plane, I assume the same would be true for the Jeep, when we were tuning Amy's new cb we got some odd swr readings. and her signal is much stronger to the front than the rear or sides.
Can you run co-phased 2 meter antennas? think it would make much difference?

 

[skeeter]

Lol yep, nice avatar, I've got a pic of a short bus I've been meaning to make into an avatar or siggy.

On the antenna, The one you made, Did you measure the length of the mast? or the length of the wire all stretched out before wrapping it?

I've got a pair of antennas off my big truck that the masts weren't strong enough to handle the vibration at cb antenna length, I'm thinking I could cut them down to 2 meter length and see how they hold up but I don't know if I should measure the total length of the wire or the hight of the mast.

 

[skeeter]

ok, thank you.

 

[skeeter]

Excellent, that's the info I needed and it makes sense, thank you.