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echo: scanners
to: JONATHAN GUY
from: TROY H. CHEEK
date: 1996-10-22 09:02:00
subject: Re: Antenna

Concerning _Antenna_, Jonathan Guy said to Troy H. Cheek in SCANRADIO:
 JG> wire from the power distribution box run into the cab by a local car
 JG> stereo shop, they put the gold connectors in and used enough fuses to
 JG> protect everything. Cost me about $90 in parts and labor, but that
 JG> was almost 5 years ago, never have had the first problem and they had
 JG> all the right tools to do it in
I'd probably have trouble justifying that to myself.  I don't really intend 
to have this car 5 years from now, so anything I do to it has to be something 
can (or, at least, tell myself I can) unbolt and move into another vehicle 
some time down the road.
 JG> I had a mag mount on the roof, coax run through the bottom of the door
 JG>  behind the seat and up to the ham radio....antenna got knocked off
 JG> the truck one day and ripped the antenna off...broke the coax...but
 JG> the radio came out just fine...
I lost a walkie talkie once by sticking the antenna out the window while dad 
was driving on a country road.  Snagged in a branch or something and pulled 
it right out of my hand.  Had to buy another set of two...
 JG> "A moment of silence for the Larsen Dual Band Antenna"
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... "Bother," said Pooh, as he realized his scanner was fried.
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