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Oil Filled Antenna

secret squirrel

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Anybody still do, or anyone ever run the oil filled antennas. I believe Workman or Barjan still makes one. I see it every so often at a TA. Everything I ever red was a nice gimmick antenna. Anyone ever keydown on the old Robyn long enough to heat the oil up back in the days of big bell bottoms.
If anyone ever tries to heat the coils of one up please post results.
 
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Are you talking about the RoadPro's or the Trams.

Home Depot has the Trams for $20.00
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Oil-Filled-Coil-CB-Antenna-717/300026087


or you can get this killer dual coil antenna thats good for 37,000 watts
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Back in the day (1980), Van Ordt marketed a center-load oil-filled antenna called the AUDIO KING. They made some pretty outrageous claims about gain and low receive noise, but the reality was that if you hit a low hanging branch, the load would break and you could kiss the antenna good-bye. TRUCK SPEC makes a clone of the A-King, but the dimensions of the load (diameter, load wire size, & # of turns in the coil) is different than the Van Ordt original. Supposedly, replacing the whip on the top of an Antron99 with an Audio King was the big speed secret way back when.

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Kale Cavel is 82 years old, and still to this day hand turns every single coil that go's on the Predator 10K antennas...I talked to him on the phone earlier in the week for about a hour, and all I can say is, I hope i'm in as good a health at 82 as he is...heck, for as that go's, I just hope to make it to 82!

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Got off IH635 onto Military Parkway a couple days ago and heard somebody a'hollerin’ for “JJD”.

Musta needed a Predator.

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I know the oil is a gimmick but a coworker bought one for $19.00. We put it on his Pete. I matched it to 1.1 and the thing worked perfect. He then broke the whip off and somewhere got another whip and is still running it. It has been a year and a half.
 
audio king somewhere back in the 1980s i guessing,,,, the idea was oil would keep the coil cooler from high wattage,, but claims about getting out better was involved too,,,, seen some on trunklids,, especially after they were shown in the secret cb books,,,,
 
The only reason for the oil is to dissipate heat and that's not a good thing because it means your RF power is being turned into heat by the dummy load of an antenna instead of being radiated as a usable signal. Every watt that is heating up that oil is a watt not being radiated.
 

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