Rain Gutter Cb Antenna

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Rain gutter cb antenna.

It is the rain gutter along the front of a house. Gutter mounted the rtg 27l hustler antenna offers the advantages of a roof mounted cb antenna in an easily installed package. Black 4 4 out of 5 stars 3 816. Anl switch and pa cb switch.

Mine was a mfj travel tuner. It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner. Very simple and the system worked for me. The hustler rtg 27l gutter mount cb antenna offers a no drill install that mounts securely to any size shape or angle of vehicle rain gutter.

Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic. My goods will pay for shipping exchanges back to the customer. I got this idea about writing about my antenna because i had one once in the condo that worked very well down to about 40 meters. I ve always fed gutter antennas from the bottom of a downspout using a coax pigtail one end with an so 239 uhf connector same as what s on the back of most ham cb radios center of the coax going to the gutter and braid going to a nearby grounding point of some kind either a ground rod worst case scenario radials better or groundrod with radials best option.

Sirio performer 2000 pl 10m cb mobile antenna with gutter mount kit 1 offer from 79 50. So i just ran an appropriate length of 18 awg speaker wire inside the plastic downspout and horizontal section sealing the ends with waterproof silicone caulk and attached the antenna segment to the main wire of some rg 8 coax while i connected the coax ground braid to buried counterpoise wires. Uniden pro520xl pro series 40 channel cb radio. Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna.

The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35. A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna. Second article on the rain gutter antenna. Rtg27l for sale rtg27l hustler 25 rain gutter cb antenna kit 12 coax cable.

First you have to use a tuner.