HF Antenna Mounting Considerations on the Freightliner Century

What type trailer are you going to be pulling?? If it is a flatbed, you can mount the antenna on the headache rack. If you go to mirror mount, be sure to ground it to the frame with a seperate ground wire..

 

:smt026

While you are looking at screwdrivers, look at www.qsl.net/k4kwh *He* makes some nice screwdrivers as well ! Priced about the same as the DK3 except the materials are better quality. I think the DK and POZ antennas still use the PVC coils. That "Carolina Cyclone" uses nylon thru out and will accept up to full legal limit SSB. PVC will MELT if you put too much juice in it....or shrink, in which case you now have an expensive slinky toy! He doesn't advertise much, but makes a pretty darned good antenna in two versions--so far resisting the urge to fool with the 'mini' screwdrivers. The smaller one is 2 1/4" coil with #14 wire wound at 8 TPI; the DK and clones are about 1 1/2", #16 wire at 10 TPI. The bigger one, similar to the Predator, is 3" dia with #14 wire and 8 TPI! Both antenna are a real "stomper" down on 40 and 80. And, again, if you are adventurous, you can mount the thing up inside the sleeper across the back with the whip nearby on a ball mount (?). Check out the Carolina Cyclone--I "know" the guy! With screwdriver prices sky high--and I don't really understand that (much of that is pure profit!), IMHO most SD units are a holdup pricewise.:smt026 Now don't get me wrong; they are FINE antennas, but one doesn't HAVE to pay $350+ to get a good signal on HF!

73

Gadfly