[OZAPRS] Slightly OT: antennas on a station wagon?

[Shaun Pitcher]

With the addition of Bluetooth hands free to the work vehicle I now have a 
on glass mobile phone antenna doing nothing.  I had planned to fabricate a 
1/4 wave for 2m to run the APRS.

I need to find another base so I can reverse engineer it (Pull apart) to 
see what mods will be needed to 2m.

Off to Wallsend today, from Sydney,  so I will fire up the aprs and see 
how coverage goes.

Regards, 
Shaun Pitcher   VK2XPP-9






Ron Perry <ronk at ncable.com.au> 
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17/06/2008 08:10 PM
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The roof is the go.  Best position, best results. If you're keeping the
Holden as long as the Hilux, it will not drop any value, and you can
replace the dualbander with a mobile phone antenna when it's due to be
sold.
Ron
vk3ecv (about to drill another hole in next to the centre light)

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 08:05 +1000, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> Howdy Folks,
> 
> So the trusty old hilux is going this weekend, and being replaced by a 
new commode wagon (the carpal tunnel just wasn't tolerating the 
non-power-steering 4wd..), so my radios are already out, and ready to go 
in the new car..  the head for the 8100 is going to be niice, as there's a 
nice little storage box with an open-down lid to cover it in the centre 
console!.  But I'm having trouble figuring where/how to do the antennas 
(I'll have a 2/70 for the ft8100, and a 2 for a tinytrack on an old tait 
(that i still have to figure out how to get onto the aprs freq's ;) ).. 
> 
> If it was a sedan I'd put em on the boot lid, if it wasn't a commodore 
I'd put em on the bonnet, but my VR never liked having anything remotely 
RF passing through the cab.  I'd really refer not to shove em on the roof 
of the wagon, because that'll put its total height up a bit, plus look 
kinda wierd..  But other than maybe trying to find some of these elusive 
glass-mount antennas I've heard folks talk about (and which I'm sure must 
be pretty lossy??), I'm a bit stumped as to how you 'cleanly' put antennas 
on a wagon!!  Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> DG
> 
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