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Do You Have This CB Antenna Book?

Chicago Savage

Chicago Savage

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Okay, I know this is going to be a stretch. Literally a needle in a haystack.
30 years ago I had this book. I don't remember the title. It was a smaller hardcover book. Maybe 8 x 10, green or blue cover with black lettering I think, and only 25 or so pages. It featured several different descriptions/designs/drawings of homemade CB antennas. It showed how to make a diploe, a 1/4 wave ground plane, a beam antenna, a weird antenna that looked like a traditional ground plane, but had a folded radiating element. It also had some other weird things like "Using your home's electrical wiring as a CB antenna", and a "Mobile 4 element beam antenna".
I would pay anything to have this book again. If you've got it, I'd like to buy it. I'll pay a great price for it. It is mostly for sentimental reasons, for it was my dad's book first.
 

Always liked Tom Kneitel. He was a total smart-a$$.

Had a column in an electronics magazine where he answered questions mailed in by readers.

My favorite was from around 1970 or so. The reader asked if there was a way to explore psychedelic experiences with electronics.

Best I can remember he answered something like: "Start with LSD (large silicon diode). Connect a wire with gator clip to each end of the diode. Clip one to each ear and stand next to the antenna tower of an AM broadcast transmitter. If you can find a way to tune in, you'll certainly turn on. "

73
 
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Yeah this is a great book, I have I think 3 copies. Left them in the mud, blood. beer, and rain too many times. I liked to read Tom Kneitel and Wayne Green from 73 magazine. And William Orr had many antenna books out. He also wrote the Radio Handbook or Engineering (I think) with all kinds of linear Amp projects in it. Good stuff.

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
 
This is a smaller hardcover green or blue book 25 or so pages. Let's see..... Other designs were a "Fishing Rod Mobile Antenna", I think an 11m j pole design, and now that I think about it, the most memorable antenna was called the "Full Wave Antenna", which I know is not possible, but the design looked like a 1/4 wave ground plane, with four nine foot ground radials, set at 90°, and a 9' vertical radiating element, a gamma match, and the twist was, the 9' radiating element had a parallel element running down the side of it, spaced a couple of inches apart, and went all the way down to about 3" above the ground plane radials. Kind of like what I think is called a Trombone Antenna. Anyways.......
 
9' radiating element had a parallel element running down the side of it, spaced a couple of inches apart, and went all the way down to about 3" above the ground plane radials


That's a folded monopole ground plane. Used a lot for low band commercial base stations (30-50 MHz) and has a little wider bandwidth than a traditional ground plane. It is DC grounded for lower noise and lightning protection.

An example: http://www.krecoantennas.com/fgplane.htm
 
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Rob_MA said:
9' radiating element had a parallel element running down the side of it, spaced a couple of inches apart, and went all the way down to about 3" above the ground plane radials


That's a folded monopole ground plane. Used a lot for low band commercial base stations (30-50 MHz) and has a little wider bandwidth than a traditional ground plane. It is DC grounded for lower noise and lightning protection.

An example: http://www.krecoantennas.com/fgplane.htm
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Hey, that's cool. Their low band version only shows 40mHz. I wonder if this design has ever been used on lower frequencies. According to that book you can do it. In 40 years I've never seen one for CB.
 
I've seen them for 25 MHz... rare but they were once commercially available. You can make an HF version as well with either elevated or ground level radials. There are quite a few variations that can be found online.

Also common on UHF. Here is a home brew one for the 440 MHz ham band: http://f5ad.free.fr/Liens_coupes_ANT/G/KC4FWC Folded GPA 400.htm
 
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nomadradio said:
Always liked Tom Kneitel. He was a total smart-a$$.

Had a column in an electronics magazine where he answered questions mailed in by readers.

My favorite was from around 1970 or so. The reader asked if there was a way to explore psychedelic experiences with electronics.

Best I can remember he answered something like: "Start with LSD (large silicon diode). Connect a wire with gator clip to each end of the diode. Clip one to each ear and stand next to the antenna tower of an AM broadcast transmitter. If you can find a way to tune in, you'll certainly turn on. "

73
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I’m dying. Have several friends will love that one.

Now, can we record it for Quadraphonic playback.
 
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