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Base Antenna Basics...

slowmover

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Base is always less noticeable.

SIRIO less noticeable than a WILSON (Stryker).

Put an NMO34 with 640 whip on a mag mount.
Steer them easiest direction.

These big antennas get left at home sooner or later for the majority of men.


Should always be smooth in shifts (good job as shown). But cut down on the excess gear changes / brake use to get done the same work. (Could have stayed out of O/D past 1:20).


The Big Boy Antenna barely has to work.

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jcrmadden

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“. . a mobile-to-mobile contact that was 12-miles ahead of me in the other direction and held him til he was 8-miles behind me.

He was running a Stryker 955 and a permanent-mount Stryker antenna on top of a bobtail Pete.”



Here’s the chrome shop version of the back-of-sleeper Pete mount.

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Fairly rare I’ve see anyone put one on the actual roof as it’s hard to reach for service & repair.

Is this what was meant?

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Not entirely sure. Knew who I was looking for before we met, but we were moving pretty swift in opposite directions. Looked like it was in the roof of the sleeper. Could have been on the back but didn't look like it.
 
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