Glass mount CB antenna that had a braided ground wire and terminal

[FPR1981]

In my days of playing CB radio, probably 1998 if I recall directly, I bought a cellular-style glass mount antenna. Traditionally, these are mostly crap. Occasionally you can have decent luck with one, but the majority of them suck.

This one, as I recall, had the coax coming out of the interior side of the mount, but also had a braided ground wire that was made to attach to a chassis ground of some sort. This antenna, although not amazing by any stretch, did a satisfactory job at local talk. I had a Ranger RCI-2970 at the time and it handed that radio just fine and achieved a good SWR (about 1.3, as I recall).

Since that time, I've not come across one glass mount antenna like it, and by that I mean with the braided ground wire. I've often wondered why that was, and if that braided ground wire had a lot to do with why that particular glass mount antenna performed like it did. It was at least as good as a standard entry-level magnet mount antenna, or slightly better.

Does anyone ever remember seeing one of these that had a braided ground wire?

 

[KK6ZTE]

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[prcguy]

I seem to remember something like this but the brand escapes me. The first glass mount antennas on the market in the late 70s were from Avanti and I believe that sold out to Antenna Specialists. The CB version had a thin black whip about 20" long with an open coil in the middle. Whatever brand had the ground wire was a PIA to install without F'ing up the customers window seal or headliner trying to get a screw in. They seemed to work about as good as a similar length mag mount.

In my days of playing CB radio, probably 1998 if I recall directly, I bought a cellular-style glass mount antenna. Traditionally, these are mostly crap. Occasionally you can have decent luck with one, but the majority of them suck.

This one, as I recall, had the coax coming out of the interior side of the mount, but also had a braided ground wire that was made to attach to a chassis ground of some sort. This antenna, although not amazing by any stretch, did a satisfactory job at local talk. I had a Ranger RCI-2970 at the time and it handed that radio just fine and achieved a good SWR (about 1.3, as I recall).

Since that time, I've not come across one glass mount antenna like it, and by that I mean with the braided ground wire. I've often wondered why that was, and if that braided ground wire had a lot to do with why that particular glass mount antenna performed like it did. It was at least as good as a standard entry-level magnet mount antenna, or slightly better.

Does anyone ever remember seeing one of these that had a braided ground wire?

 

[FPR1981]

Turns out, I wasn't imagining the braided ground wire. This was the same glass mount antenna I had back in 1998. I don't know if it was the grounding of the antenna that made the difference, but this antenna worked at least as well as any low-profile magnet mount available.