Ground plane on a trailer

[cphilip]

Wanting to stick an antenna on a 6 X 10 foot V nosed Aluminum skinned box Motorcyle hauler trailer of mine. It's basicaly a steel framework with an Aluminum skin. I think it's Aluminum anyway. Some sort of metalic skin at least. I am wondering if I am going to get enough ground plain, or is it plane? well... whatever... you know what I mean. if I do this or should I be thinking about a NGP type antenna?

Has anyone ever stuck one up on one of these box trailer things?


It's going about as slap dab in the middle as I can get. Probably 3 foot fiberglass stick up on top of that. Any ideas about what I might run into as far as getting a good plain?

 

[FL Native]

well you want to make sure the skin is grounded to the frame real good. other than that any mobil antenna should work up there. i would recomend a wilson 1000 or 5000.

 

[cphilip]

Well each couple of inches of that skin is riveted to the frame. I would suspect it is but I don't know of any other way to test it other than perhaps continuity with a Ohm meter?

 

[FL Native]

yes that would be a great way to test it out.

 

[cphilip]

Super... I will give it a test out. I will be somewhat suprised NOT to get a good field of ground plane though over that large an expanse of surface... but seem to find it mentioned on trailer applications. However I suspected those applications had Aluminum struts as well as skins. And this is not the case I have here.... And to day... Never ran into it... but there is always a first time for everything I suppose.