Lowband antennas on vehicles

[phillmobile]

As title maybe a thread showing lowband equipment in vehciles, in the uk its called paging band and is hardly use or lowband is 68-88, but would like to see all those big whips please

[mrweather]

On this side of the pond it's called mid-band but there's not much going on in terms of land mobile stuff. Mostly radio control and telemetry.

Low-band in North America is traditionally 30-50 MHz.

[nzoliver]

Howdy from New Zealand!

Low band (66-88) here is used by Fire and Police and a few contractors. There are loads of antennae here on police cars for the 75mHz radios (that they are phasing out in favour of 141mHz P25 encrypted). The country cops have an antenna about 10' long whereas the city cars' antenna is about 3'.

Will try and get a snap to put up

Oliver

[haleve]

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[LowbandGuy]

This picture was taken just a little over a year ago, installed on a 2011 Ford F150 extended cab truck.

[phillmobile]

Hi what i meant was lowband antennas in the usa 30 to 50mhz

Originally Posted by mrweather

On this side of the pond it's called mid-band but there's not much going on in terms of land mobile stuff. Mostly radio control and telemetry.

Low-band in North America is traditionally 30-50 MHz.

[EC-7]

This is the only pic I can find of my old vehicle with a 27Mhz 102" whip on it.
I used to be able to talk all over the US with that antenna.

[jim202]

Originally Posted by mrweather

On this side of the pond it's called mid-band but there's not much going on in terms of land mobile stuff. Mostly radio control and telemetry.

Low-band in North America is traditionally 30-50 MHz.

Where have you been living with your head in the sand. There is still a good amount of the so called "LOW BAND" activity going on. Sure it's not like it was 20 years ago.

The radio vendors have been pulling all the stops out and blowing smoke into the eyes of any users still there. They are trying anything they can to sell the users new radios on higher frequencies. They have even used the excuse that narrow banding is a requirement that they have to abandoned the low band channels.

[radiouser_magazine]

Here's the two whips on my vehicle in the UK for CB use - both 1m in length. Also got a 1.5m which I can stick on as well. As you can see I am all about the symmetry lol!

[KB7MIB]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-US) Gecko/20081217 Vision-Browser/8.1 301x200 LG VN530)

Jim, the OP (in the UK) referenced 66-88MHz as their Low-Band. The USA Mid-Band is 72-76MHz, which is what mrweather was referring to as not having much going on. He then stated that the USA Low-Band is 30-50MHz.