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to: BEN RITCHEY
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2005-07-09 07:23:00
subject: Re: Antenna

BR>| TW> soem are agast at the fact that for outside Recieve only antennas I
BR>| TW> perfer Quad Shielded 75 Ohm Coaxial Cable. And that is for the

BR>Stripped I assume? I use coax to *feed* my CB Base and TV Antenna ... the CB
BR>antenna is still down from hurricane Lili, got to remount that one .

I was speaking of using it for a Feed Line in this case. BUT i nthe
Early years of CB, in the days you had to get a "Licence", I did build
an 11 meter Coaxial Antenna out of RG-58. Worked very well. And was
quite a bit cheaper then the base antennas of the day. My first Citizens
Band Mobile was a Ratheon Unit with a Vibrator and Vacuum tubes. Has a
108 Inch Fiberglass whip for a while but I got tired of it hitting
things and later aquired a shorter Helical Wound Fiberglass antenna. The
antennas were built by the Shakespere Fishing Pole people.

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