Truck Antenna With Tennis Balls

When this was first printed in the 1960s within a few days you could not walk out of a grocery store without at least every other vehicle having a tennis ball on its antenna. Subaru car truck antenna ball get more g s tennis ball style thick antenna ebay skip to main content.

102 Whip Installation On My Car Page 5 Truckersreport Com Trucking Forum 1 Cdl Truck Driver Message Board

You can also find toppers for the nfl fan in your life as we now carry a cool topper for each of the nfl teams such as team helmets team foam fingers team mascots and more.

Truck antenna with tennis balls. Get a tennis ball. The adapter plate bottom view showing the cutout and the antenna base mounted. This will fit any thick style car truck or suv antenna.

The longtime heloise hint is to do something similar using a bright colored tennis ball. The tennis ball keeps the antenna from hitting the truck as it whips around. Sometimes telescoping squid poles are just too bulky to carry around.

And as the tennis ball is moved up or down the antenna the effect will change the swr. The antenna ball store now features such a large variety of them including mickey mouse minnie mouse donald duck and more. A tennis ball added to a transmitting antenna will add capacitance which on a previously tuned antenna will cause a resonant frequency shift and a change in the standing wave ratio swr at that frequency.

See if there s any new communication problems that crop up. Buy tennis ball antenna ball topper. But if you re going somewhere where there s trees a tennis ball and fishing line can do.

Go for a drive through progressively denser trees and brush. Https amzn to 2u12c2l i will be adding items to my store all the time and all proceeds go right back i. Have you considered putting the antenna on the front bumper.

Watch this video to find out. Also see if the tennis ball will provide adequate protection for the vehicle. Hardware to mount to a car or truck bumper which you will discard.

Can tennis ball chuckers sold by pet accessory suppliers help. I have since replace the tennis balls with some rubber fuel hose pulled over the antenna. One of the problems portable amateur radio operators have is getting wire into high trees.

Put it on the antenna. Be sure to check out my amazon influencer page here. On a top loaded antenna such as the firestik.

This antenna comes with ss.

She S Tooted