UHF Antenna

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Robin, not too shaw what a 1/4 whip is exactly, please explain.

Steve

Steve

A 1/4 wave whip is the simplest antenna you can get. it is a piece of rod or stiff wire that is one fourth of a wave length at the working frequency. A wave length at UHF CB frequencies is around 630mm so the whip will be around 150mm long (the whips are slightly shorter than an exact 1/4 wave length - the fatter they are then the longer will be the reduction in length.) The whip is mounted on a base that sits on the roof of your vehicle of in a bracket or the end of a piece of pipe around the same length as the whip and the coax is fed up through the pipe.

PeterD

The penultimate line of FollowUp 3 should read:

on the roof of your vehicle or in a bracket - or the end of a piece of pipe around the same length as the whip

Hi Steve

Peter has said what a 1/4 wave whip is - I tend to assume to much.

They are only about $13 from dick smith and best mounted with hole in centre of roof (provided you don't have it next to metal roof rack, inwhich case its best mounted in a corner of roof rack on a plate not less than 200mm across ). This high position makes them work better than most and keeps RF radiation away from your head , as it would be using an aerial mounted on a bull bar in your line of sight.
The level of radiation is tolerable using bull bar mount for low powered UHF
radios but the roof installation wins all round.

Robin Miller

I think I have just figured out who you are, and if correct I'll tell you all about such things which you can see for yourself - when I see you on Saturday.

I am pretty quick off the mark (not) aren't I {LOL)

Shut up BONZ and Roachie

Yep that is i Ken, i think i will hold back on the aerial purchase until i find out a little more got a good price on the radio $375.
See you Saturday

Be aware the mounting brackets are extra...and they come with a front cover...to make it din size...