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Craigsez mentioned once that he's using a 102 inch whip antenna. I thought that explains why he gets out so good. He's using the best mobile antenna ever made, especially if he's living in an airstream travel trailer with the antenna mounted in the middle of the roof. Kind of like mounting an Antenna Specialist Big Momma antenna in the middle of the roof of your suburban back in the good ol days. Amp?? The jury still out on that one, not sure if the 10k means watts or $$$$ he paid for it. I heard he's using a Uniden radio that he bought from and was tuned by Mikes Radio Repair. Not sure which model. I believe he had Mike install the Loud Mouth board that uses the Uniden electret mic, hence the good sounding audio. I own two of those boards, too bad the company quit making them. That's all the info I got for now. Hope it puts some rumors to rest.

 

Those 102's are killers. I ran one on my Jeep Wrangler and one a F150 I owned. They just get the job done.

 

That's a picture of one of the first 50KW transmitters. I have a picture (not scanned) of the one I was maintaining when I was in school, the entire studio looked like it came out of a horror movie from the Victorian Age, the place was made in 1850 and it had brass rails all over the place, spiral staircases and enameled cages for safety around the transmitter. Just after I left, they sadly gutted the entire facility to put in modern equipment which they remodeled the entire place, now that makes it look like a hospital.

 

Yes they do, and they are super tough too. Years ago when I was 19, I bought a 1974 4 wheel drive Chevy pickup and installed a 102" antenna about a foot away from the back of the cab on the driver's side. It worked great and it had great SWR too, no tuning needed.
The fun part was using a Johnson 130 CB radio that had a telephone handset for a microphone. Got some interesting looks talking on it at a red light. Later I installed a Hy-gain II, another great CB radio. The only thing I didn't like about the Hy-gain I and II, was the little sr/f meter. But I liked their banana shaped microphones.

 

I bet when you walked by it you could feel the hair on you arms stand up. The technology back then was kind of crude, but amazingly it got the job done.

 

I had a 102" on a 70 Buick Skylark. Mounted on the rear bumper with one of those bumper mounts that used chain from the bracket at the top of the bumper and ran down to the bottom of the bumper where you tightened it up with a turn buckle type deal. Worked great!

 

Oh ya, the Buick Skylark, another great car from yesteryear. In the mid 70's my dad managed to buy a 1968 Buick Electra 225 with a wildcat 445 motor in it. It was a big boat of a car, but that 445 motor didn't care. When you stepped down on the gas pedal and said jump, that motor would respond with how high as it set you back in the seat...insert Tim the tool mans grunt here. Ha. Unfortunately my dad had to replace a broken motor mount once and I thought oh oh, surely that wasn't my fault. After all 16 year old boys are angels, right?? I installed an Antenna Specialist 48" antenna in the middle of that big trunk lid (yes my dad actually let me drill a hole in his car, what a great dad) and it worked great.

 

I love the late 60s GM cars, my first one was a 1968 Chevy Impala SS 427/4sp. it was a production check model, ordered by an engineer I bought it from. He was the guy who set up the orders to see what problems they could have installing them and this one had everything you could think of from power seats to export lights to 1969 items that were not even in production. It even had the very rare Reverse light indicator and fiber light checking system. He put a 109" antenna right in the middle of the roof, which I left when I sold it. When I bought it back, the hole was filled in with bondo (leaked) and painted over. I took it to MACO and had it filled in with metal, which cost me $400 (1978). The car is still fun when I can get it on the road.

 

That Antenna Specialist antenna was a popular one back in the day. My folks bought a Olds 98 that had the AM/FM/CB option and it had what appeared to be that A.S. antenna on it as well. It was a few years old when they bought it so I don't know if it came with that antenna or not. But the radio was factory.

 

You must be new in the radio world or you haven't been listening.

Unless of course if you happen to drill a hole through it and feed a cable through the tiny hole.

You're not teaching me anything I didn't already know about when I was a child and studied The Life and times of Royal Raymond Rife and his Faraday cage.
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