help with antenna choice

[Mr Clean]

Moleculo could you grund the ladder to the frame? Just use a good type coax? If you dont tow a car you could run small pipe coming off a reese hitch. Slide on a towing hitch to the conector and run the pipe from there.

 

[QRO]

I DO tow a car...


And no, I cant put antenna on the car.

 

[Moleculo]

Yeah, ground the ladder to the tow hitch or the frame somehow. That should work.

 

[QRO]

I always thought a ground plane was more than just running a ground wire to chassis?


I know antenna benefits from a good ground. Dont ground plane antennas need more than a wire tied to a chassis so they work correctly???

 

[Moleculo]

What you're doing is turning the whole frame into your groundplane. On a motor home, it's a little too far from the antenna, but everything is a compromise in this situation. Also, the ladder will give it some counterpoise.

 

[Rockytherotty]

I would opt for the mirror mount, that way you could run a larger and better antenna, like a Wilson 2000 trucker. A 1' or 2' fiberglass antenna ain't gonna do squat for you.