Wednesday, Nov 02, 2016 at 16:26
Seems my comment about bull-bar mounting ruffled a few feathers -so to clarify the situation spoke to technical
services dept of transport in WA (welshpool branch)
In short WA having a autotune antenna fitted to bullbar would be illegal as its deemed to have rough edges limits visibility and
hazard for pedestrians, this would be enforced inside the metro area, and they would hope that bit of leniency would occur out in bush areas - search for UNECC (UNEC ?) Regulation R28 dangerous projections
WA has a maximum dia of 40mm which allows for mounting of tradesmen racks on utes vans etc -this also allows for mounting of UHF CB antennas to a certain extent the very large 12dB 2 metre units (fishing sticks as i call them) would be a borderline mounting in eye of Transport inspectors and WAPOL.
I would
hazard a guess that a tapped HF antenna may possibly get away for time being.
I was also made aware that soon (next week possibly) a meeting will be held in regards to ADR and R28 regulations and a more stringent approach may be followed, this is all to prevent the "interpretation" of rulings
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