wilson q?

[squirrellsgnwild]

does wilson sell any small fiberglass antennas? IE 1ft or so.

[thetez]

i know they have 2 foot...
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[ee_john]

I just wanted to chime in to make sure you understand how much more difficult it is to tune electrically short antennas.

1/4 wave for 27MHz CB is about 9 feet... thus the classic 9 foot steel whip on pickup trucks with the tennis ball to prevent it from smacking the metal body.

Anything shorter begins to compromise bandwidth and there is nothing any antenna manufacturer can do to bypass this tendency without introducing lossy resistive components.

5 foot CB antennas with base loading, continuous helical loading or whatever are about the minimum length you can have before difficulties surface.

4 feet is starting to push it, but certainly doable.

Once, long ago, I met with the worst SWR challenge of my CB installation career. The owner of a long RV wanted an 18 inch CB antenna on the ladder on the back of the RV. The cabling was something like 40 feet dressed. That ladder combined with the electrically short antenna made tuning a bloody nightmare. We tried to talk the RV owner into something more sensible, but the customer is always right so we did the best we could with the limitations.

Do what you need to do, but remember bigger is better with CB antennas.

[squirrellsgnwild]

im not looking for a bunch of miles on my cb antenna. Just want something that will do the job.