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Old 09-25-2014, 09:37 PM   #6
Mr. Ham
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If I had a all metallic vehicle and I wanted to operate HF, the very first thing I would do is call DX Engineering and buy about 100' of 3 inch copper strap and bond all the surfaces together to make the vehicle appear to the RF as being one solid object.

Unfortunately in today's world, everyone wants to be a CB'r and just stick a mag mount antenna on the roof and transmit.
The art of installing radios has been lost somewhere in the transition between the older generation and the newer.
40 years ago, vehicles were mostly steel, with very little plastic, today vehicles are plastic and exotic materials, and yet we still want our radios to work the same way.

There is very little that we can do about it except try to use Hamsticks or Tarheel antenna's and a antenna tuner...

If you are going to run 1KW on 40 or 80 meters and you do not have sufficient surface area, you are going to need one heck of a antenna tuner.
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