Then I was mistaken. Mounting at the rear hatch is good enough for VHF?

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 06/10/2013 07:26 PM, Mike S wrote:
> On 6/10/2013 10:13 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> I have heard that with a fiberglass pop-top there isn't a sufficient
>> ground plane to make a vehicle-mounted antenna work well. But perhaps I
>> am mistaken.
>
> If you mount at the front, it's just a matter of inches to connect to
> the ground plane.
>
> He was talking about mounting at the rear, grounding to the hatch -
> there's a lot of local plane there.
>
> There are also antennas which don't require a ground plane, of course.
> At HF, no vehicle (less than a full size semi-trailer) can provide an
> adequate ground plane.
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