Re: VHF-FM Antennas

Bill Blohm (bblohm@hpbs1686.boi.hp.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:04:05 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Fixed or free? If fixed, a toothed friction setup such as that used
for the ball on CB 8' antennae plus a service loop of coax might work.
If free, you'll have to gymball it somehow, and make the gymball weight
heavy enough to stand highway speeds.

That's two possibilities. Me, I've been thinking more along the lines
of a mount that I screw the antenna into prior to raising, then unscrew
and stow prior to trailering.

Bill B.
P-19 #454, Dream Catcher
Nampa, ID

"Dennis W. Farrell" wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> Now that we've got this discussion on coax and connectors going, let me
> raise a question on antenna mounts. I'm interested in a way of mounting my
> masthead antenna in a way that allows me to swivel it 90 degrees so that
> it's perpendicular (vertical) to the mast when I've got the mast down for
> trailering. I'd like to do this *without* breaking the coax connection to
> the mast. I want to do this to avoid having the antenna sticking out 3' or
> so past the mast when trailering (would require a red flag/light) and when
> parking the boat and trailer.