Re: Is this a loading coil?

art wrote:

>> ...
yep, and this is where you get the amps to melt them down:http://www.davemade.com/mobile.htm

You may be looking at the spring between the antenna and the bumper
which allows a long whip style antenna
to bend with the wind while mobile
Art


Ohh that's a loading coil alright, seen plenty of 'em at cb-swap/meets/shows in the midwest. The shows used to be a lot more open, now you have to know someone or be invited.

He should be warned, those BIG mobile amps draw a lot of amps and you'll be into adding extra batteries in the trunk and alternators under the hood! (think ambulance/swat-team/military vehicle industrial alternators.)

Also, those BIG base amps can cause you to drop a new box into yer house/shack to supply the power--above 5KW just gets too crazy, IMHO ... and don't even think about it unless you have a place out in the boonies.

Anything above the smallest base amp with the big tubes is kinda crazy--IMHO.

You want to run more power than that, think about starting up a real am/fm broadcast station!

Regards,
JS
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