>Antenna length, Antenna height. I've used a marine antenna mounted on the >side of the luggage rack with great success. They are self grounding (1/2 >wave design) so they don't require a big magnet or drilling of metal, >mounting on the luggage rack gives you the height, and they are long enough
Chris - what about needing a "ground plane"? I notice a HUGE difference in reception (with the same k40 radio) between a magnetic-mounted antenna on the steel roof of our Cherokee vs. a glass-mounted antenna on the Westy. I always thought that you needed a big flat area of metal underneath the antenna to form a ground plane in order to achieve good performance... Brent Christensen '89 GL Syncro Westy Santa Barbara, CA
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