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What is the best antenna for a cb?

What is a good base station cb antenna?

  • I need a lower profile type base station cb antenna (not a ham radio antenna) that works good. Due to HOA regulations I can't have anything real big. Does anyone know of any smaller type antennas that works good?

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    There are no "lower profile" CB base station antennas that wouldn't be at least somewhat noticeable. Since CB is in the 11-meter band, a quarter wavelength is about 2.75m (or 108 inches, or 9 feet). The smallest CB base station antenna would be a quarter-wave vertical, with quarter-wave radials at the bottom. Such antennas are very obvious from some distance away. A plain fiberglass vertical without radials is a lot less noticeable than anything with radials, but most or all of these are half-wave, rather than quarter-wave, so they are about twice as tall. One possible option is a top-grade mobile magnet-mount base-loaded whip on as large a sheet of steel as can be accommodated where the antenna is placed. K40 and Wilson are the two best; they are almost equal in performance, but subject to very strong one-but-not-the-other opinions, as in a feud. If your ceiling is high enough, you can use a magnet-mount antenna on top of a refrigerator. [Keep in mind that any antenna will work much better outdoors than indoors.] One or two very good base station antennas for CB actually are also amateur antennas. Universal Radio (www.universal-radio.com, or call 800 431 3939) offers the Solarcon A99 (order # 1001, $79.95) 10 - to - 17 meter half wave over quarter wave vertical (17.75 feet tall) and the optional GPK1 (order # 2490, $58.95) ground plane radial kit. > I've been a customer of Universal Radio since 1993. Good company to deal with. They don't have everything, but they know what's what with the things they do have.

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I've used a wire "poor-man's beam" called a half-square, as a very efficient and stealthy antenna. This site: http://www.ku4ay.net/halfsquare.html has quick instructions for the design and connections. With a little ingenuity the thing is almost entirely invisible and since you put it up and take it down only when you operate, no one can say a word. The radiation pattern will be broadside to the vertical elements.

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