It is very easy to cut a square hole in the fiberglass sufficiently large
to plug a magnet mount down there on the metal. That's how I did it, and I
had no problems with SWR.

At 02:29 PM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Has anyone had luck mounting a ham or cb antenna to the
>steel roof under the luggage carrier up front on a
>westy?  Is there enough ground plane to achieve good
>SWR?  I do not want to do a side mount...unless the
>performance would be significantly better.  I also do
>not want to spend money on a good radio if i am never
>going to be able to transmit well due to the poor
>ground plane.
>
>Thanks for any info.  And I'd love to hear any other
>good mounting locations that have been tested on a
>meter.
>steve
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