Cascadia Antenna Solutions

beefier means a thicker gauge wire capable of handling the wattage output of your amplifier if that's what you plan on using

 

you can't run an 800 watt amplifier into an antenna that was only designed to handle 150 watts

 

So effing lost now..One thing works but it doesnt,gotta do it but not..jesus h christ to many changes and to much info miscommunication..

 

Negative half must be resonant. By including the extension in the negative half, the bottom element won't be resonant. By isolating the extension from the feedpoint the bottom element will be resonant if tuned first.

 

I'm running a antenna that handles 10,000 watts and from what I've seen the dip-pole is not connected to anything .............

 

so your the expert what antenna do you recommend ?????

 

Wow, it is confusing.

Most of it is wrong, won't say what because I don't want to stop Craig from finding a solution but Rabbi is right, the ground or other half of the antenna system has to be tuned - not resonant but tuned <<< there is a little bit of a difference.

However as I read through this and other threads, I realized a couple things I have to speak up about.

There are two words that are interchangeable to you guys but in real terms they are two different things. The first one has nothing to do with a mobile set up because of the issues I brought up (and ignored) before about capacitance and how it interacts with mobile set-ups - that word is counterpoise. NO MATTER what others say, it doesn't apply to mobile antenna systems the way you guys are looking at it.

The other is ground plane, which is one issue for a few in trying to creat artificially a ground system on these trucks and is part of the ... problem of ... an effective antenna systems ... has a lot to do with the capacitance between the vehicle and the ground which can wipe out any ground plane you create with the truck.

I think a few of you missed a lot of points that need to be addressed, ground loops are one ... that said ... isolation of the antenna system isn't always helpful because of the problems of a reflection of the signal against a second or tertiary ground.

 

Depends on the truck.

 

Isolation from the truck is the whole point

 

a key down antenna that can't handle 800 watts your funny man