[Antennas] Antennas Digest, Vol 88, Issue 7

[Bill]

Will it load across the whole band of 160?

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>     1. CB Intenna ? (Hue Miller)
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> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 22:00:29 -0700
> From: "Hue Miller"<kargo_cult at msn.com>
> Subject: [Antennas] CB Intenna ?
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> While working on my midlife cleanup, I recently rediscovered a CB curiosity
> I obtained long ago.
> I bought this at some kind of store closeout.
> It is "the Original CB Intenna". "Stop CB Rip Offs with the Intenna. It's
> Completely Inside - The
> Car Skin Is The Antenna!"
>
> Here's what it consists of: a small one inch metal cube box with 2 holes in
> it topside for screwdriver
> adjustment of what's inside. One side has a coax female. The other side has
> a single insulated wire
> about 20 inches long coming out.
> Unfortunately I don't know where the instruction sheet is right now, but I
> think it's set up like this.
> You mount the metal coupling box on your dashboard, plug the CB jumper coax
> into the coupler and the
> other end to the CB. The single wire you run up to the rear view mirror and
> screw fasten it there so
> that it actually makes contact with the car chassis. I think it must work by
> having the RF path from
> the rear view mirror spot, around the two halves of the windshield, and back
> to the CB radio ground.
>
> I wonder what your comments might be. I don't think I would want to use this
> with other than QRP,
> that's for sure.  Maybe I will even try it out. What do you think is in the
> metal box? I'm almost
> curious enuff to unsolder the bottom, but as the set package is whole, I
> prefer to keep it together
> as an unusual collectible. Holding the thing up near strong light, I can see
> inside the adjustment
> holes and see there, 2 small mica compression trimmers. So do you think this
> is just a capacitive
> voltage divider (impedance divider), or do you think there's a small coil in
> there too, a pi network
> ( with low power components ).  Anyway, an odd item. I would think it would
> be pretty noisy
> receive, while the engine was running. -Hue Miller K7HUE
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