cmplres@ucbvax.ARPA (Andrew Purshottam) (04/25/85)
I needed to set up a temporary CB base station in an office on the 6th floor of a building, so remembering that my 2M HT uses a 1/4 wave vertical antenna which doesn't require any loading or tuning, I ran some RG58 coax from the CB tranceiver over to the window, grounded the coax braid to the radiator (heat radiator, that is; not RF), and soldered the center conductor to a 1/4 wavelength long piece of wire which was dropped out the window with a rock tied to the other end. It works better than the mobile magmount that we'd been using on top of the desk but not much, and seems to have a lousy SWR. Can anyone suggest a better way to make a wire antenna? Did I cut the wire to the wrong length? We have no test equipment to speak of, cannot nail things to the side of the building or bring stuff up to the roof, etc. etc. Please reply by mail, not to the net. If interest warrants I'll post a summary. Thanks much! Paul Rubin (WA2QYN/6 but that license exam was sooo long ago...) Please reply to phr@ucbernie if possible.