tilted antennas

Well I would disagree with a few on this subject.. It depends on the truck if tilting will help performance.. if you drive a century with a condo tilting a coil antenna will help and your swr will not bounce as much.. (I also should say your equipment also depends if it would help)

If you drive a Pete then tilting would have little effect..

Ideal set up would be to have the Antenna far as possible from the cab as possible. this way there is no reflection/deflection.

many sites on the web explain antennas and how they work.. They simply are not supposed to be next to sheet metal (cab) should be in the open air. So, any way to help move that coil away from the cab will help.

Of coarse this would all depend on your equipment and the equipment you use to calibrate your system. Most CB shops just ball park it with junk meters and could care less..

 

That post was right on. Antennas are the tools that get your radio signal out to the rest of the world. Like one guy said about the tilted antennas - "Who in heaven and hell are you trying to communicate with?" Because a tilted antenna sends signal radiating down and up, as much as forward and back. I'm not trying to communicate with planes and alien spaceships, and I can't remember the last time I saw a worm with a CB radio!

For best transmission and reception distance, your antenna needs to align with everyone else. The closer you get your antenna to vertical, the better you will interact with the others out in radio land. Anything less than vertical and you're wasting radio signal.

 

well i drive a century class and i run a k40 with a cobra 29 and the whip on the k40 bows backwards a lot when going down the road so i tilt mine forward my swr is very low so i think it may help.

 

Mines tilted forward, at road speed they are straight up. Gets out good, don't do much talkin while it's sitting still. Connex 3300hp./Wilson 5000's.

 

I have a wilson mounted on the back of my sleeper dead center. THis is the best place I have found to mount my antenna unless I am pulling my reefer. I know that back in the day they used to do it to keep them straight up when they were running a hundred miles per hour out thru the desert.

 

I'm a actual Ham operator. I will give my call sign as t the end. You can look it up on ARRL.com. See I'm not bs ing.
Diapole and Yagi antennas are a non directional. And are not straight antennas. And swr in fact are lower if y'all wanna play with the big boys get your #### license KN4TFD














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Guys with tilted antennas usually also have tall shifters, wear fingerless gloves, and walk around with their Bluetooth headsets on wherever the go.