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From: hleaves@ruby.vcu.edu (EAVES,HUGH)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Car ground for mobile CB antenna
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Date: 11 Jan 91 20:33:31 GMT
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I always seem to get great standing wave ratio's for my car's CB antenna
(1.2-1.7 range). How does the car act as such a good ground for the antenna?
From what I've been reading here, the ground plane has to be tuned or very
large. My car certainly isn't 38 feet across!

Hugh

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