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for those who dream of big mobile antennas this one is available for top band as a screwdriver antenna
for the uninitiated top band is 1.8 Mhz or 160m
I shall be telliing G7WIH about this. He's my dad. Teaches "fist" so he tells me, got no idea what "fist" is but he was a bare knuckle fighter in his twenties so could be connected!!!!
Looks good Mark. I wouldn't want to drive more that a couple of yards with it though.
I have a homebrew screwdriver nearly built for Top Band to 10M. I just need to sort out the control switching and turns counter. I scrounged a piece of 4" OD copper tube off the guys who were putting the linear fire detectors and automatic firefighting equipment on one of the stations.
I ought to get my expensive (£15.00) PMR radio in my truck. 25W NBFM, 16 programmable channels and direct frequency entry on the keypad. I got it from a radio rally. Me, "How much?" Vendor, "As it's an unknown quantity - £30.00." Me, "As we don't know what it is, how about £10.00?" Him, "£15.00." Me, "Done." Grinned all the way home because I knew what it was all the time. It's a little Icom IC-V200T. If it ever got nicked I wouldn' be losing too much.
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