I met a gentleman that had a later model Westy, with a Wilson 2000 magnetic base loaded antenna on his roof rack. I asked him about the ground plane thing, and his response was, that he had riveted a steel plate under the roof rack, and the riveted a smaller plate to the top of the rack, to stick the antenna on. I guess the plate under the rack served as a sort of ground plane, and he told me there is enough metal under the pop-top to serve as a ground plane also. He said it worked well. I know the Wilson antenna is excellent, but if in fact it worked good in this situation, I am sceptical. ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-| Terry-- 74 Campmobile- (Clementine) 85 GL- (Delilah) 86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva) |
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