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Best way to mount a HAM radio antenna

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Re: Best way to mount a HAM radio antenna

Post by OLLIE » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:28 am

Nadir_E wrote:A question arose as I was thinking about this - if I were to install a piece of sheet metal on the roof rack deck and ground that to the truck's chassis, would that be a way of creating the ground plane that a hard top vehicle's roof offers?

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I would think so.... The bigger the plate the better. ;)
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