NR wants to buy a stealth aerial for his CB

[Prepper1]

(4 November 2012, 12:54)NorthernRaider Wrote:

(4 November 2012, 12:30)Prepper1 Wrote: Have you tried connecting it to the water pipes in your house? whenever I cant get a decent radio signal I do just that.
It is however used as an electrical earth also for your household electrics in case of some item short circuiting but I'm sure you could fit some sort of isolator or blow out fuse between your rig and the pipes so if a surge happened it'd just blow the fuse and not your rig.
I'm not sure if it would work for c.b's but it works as a huge Ariel for a normal radio....Might be worth a play...

I believe that if I have learned from what our radio experts tell me that if you just add length of wire to the aerial of a two way radio it screw up the standing wave ration and buggers the thing in the process. From what I understand antenna must be cut to a precisde length to match the frequency band the radio broadcasts on.

that'd be me buggered them "precise" takes me 4 or 5 goes to measure a bit of wood for cutting....