Re: CB attena mounting question for the experts

["Jerry Whitteridge" <jrwhitt@domain.elided>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:34:49 -0500, Eppinger.Michael wrote:

>Will this work well, or does this affect the infamous
>"ground plane" effect that you want?  Anyone have some input on this.
>Is this worrying over a gnat's @ss? or is this a poor performing idea?

As long as the plate is connected to the metal bed you will still get
your ground plane. It will probably work slightly better than it does
today as you are raising the antenna. Antenna's love hight. Once you do
it put a SWR meter in the circuit and tune for lowest you can.



Jerry Whitteridge
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