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667@lemmy.radio 2 months agoIt seems to perform pretty well, though my most distant contacts have, quite unexpectedly, come from a mobile CB whip borrowed from my mom’s garage and tuned down using the IC-7300. Just yesterday I finally got a good DX contact on the OCF to Japan from DM72cu, just over 5500 miles.
It certainly will give you the flexibility to work multiple bands and find the good propagation, but it’s an adventure to setup every time.
Lucien@hexbear.net 2 months ago
I’ve been contemplating doing a CB whip for 40 meter CW portable, but wasn’t sure if it would have enough juice to warrant attaching it to my RAV4. I’d want to play with it at home first and see how it does. I also considered taking the same whip and mounting it horizontally on the luggage rack to get that ~1/10th wavelength ground effect (even though it would be more like 1/20th or so).
667@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
If it’s sitting in the garage, it might just be worth the effort. I hit Namibia from 65’MSL on my CB whip and truck.