If you go with an antenna that uses a 3/8" threaded mount, there are
"quick connect" adapters that would allow you to remove the antenna with a
quick twist instead of pivoting it.
Rich Gort
WWP19 #202 SAYOKO (Oct, 83)
Lake Stevens, WA
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Bill Blohm wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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.
>