Cb anntennas

Bumpyroad wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
One of the worst examples of a no ground plane antenna is the through the glass antenna mounts.

I have used through the glass antennas on my various vehicles and the range is reduced but usable. I learned to NOT do this on dual pain windows however. :)
bumpy

CB range is questionable at best on it's "good" days a couple of miles when mobile.. Intentionally making the antenna underperform even better isn't going to help things even for receive only.

And yeah, dual pane windows are a buzz kill if one is trying to capacitive couple signals.

If one is wishing to go to the hassle of hard installing a CB (why I don't know) then you may as well go for the fences on making the best attempt of squeezing out as much performance in the antenna as one can.

The use of no ground plane CB antennas (or any other band) handicaps you right out of the gate.

The best mobile CB antenna I used was a coil base loaded antenna from Antenna Specialists (AS) with a 3ft stainless whip.. The worst was a 2ft shorty wire coiled fiberglass stick (may as well just used a coat hanger instead). Never tried the full 1/4 wave stainless whip as I didn't wish to drill a big hole in the bumper or side of vehicles.