can anyone tell me what this is and how it works because it all looks very weird to me but probably looks great to the guy who made it and to the educated eye.
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What is he trying for???
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doesnt it look like something that belongs on a boat??? with the angled antennas on the back and all
I remember seeing pics of this van a while back.... pretty wild looking machine.
If I were to guess as to his setup.... its looks like he is running 2 cophased fullwave folded dipoles on each side... he has 4 radials, 2 on the front and 2 on the back of the vehicle. He put them on an upward angle to try to keep his angle off radiation (takeoff angle) aimed right at the ground for. He is trying to get as much power as he can to stay close to the ground.
I'm not even sure those are folded dipoles... it could be full wave antennas bent around to keep the hight down.
Basically, it looks like he tried to make 2 cophased ground plane antennas work on a moble. The 4 antennas coming up on an angle on each corner of the vehicle are radials... they are angled up to try and keep the signal down on the ground.
But the 2 main antennas are on each side of the mirror... they are either cophased full wave antennas that are folded.... or 2 cophase full wave folded dipoles.
He is just trying to keep his signal low to the ground and get more gain by running longer antennas and co phasing them.
The guy had to be pretty smart to engineer that monstrocity... never mind get the thing to work good with a low match. The fact that he is actually using the thing at a keydown makes me believe he got the thing tuned with a good match.
I would like to hear what that thing sounded like and how he did using it. Maybey someone on here knows.
Impressive to say the least
If I were to guess as to his setup.... its looks like he is running 2 cophased fullwave folded dipoles on each side... he has 4 radials, 2 on the front and 2 on the back of the vehicle. He put them on an upward angle to try to keep his angle off radiation (takeoff angle) aimed right at the ground for. He is trying to get as much power as he can to stay close to the ground.
I'm not even sure those are folded dipoles... it could be full wave antennas bent around to keep the hight down.
Basically, it looks like he tried to make 2 cophased ground plane antennas work on a moble. The 4 antennas coming up on an angle on each corner of the vehicle are radials... they are angled up to try and keep the signal down on the ground.
But the 2 main antennas are on each side of the mirror... they are either cophased full wave antennas that are folded.... or 2 cophase full wave folded dipoles.
He is just trying to keep his signal low to the ground and get more gain by running longer antennas and co phasing them.
The guy had to be pretty smart to engineer that monstrocity... never mind get the thing to work good with a low match. The fact that he is actually using the thing at a keydown makes me believe he got the thing tuned with a good match.
I would like to hear what that thing sounded like and how he did using it. Maybey someone on here knows.
Impressive to say the least
Now that I look at it again... it looks like it is 2 full wave antennas and not folded dipoles.
He tried to make 2 cophased fullwave groundplane antennas work on a mobile.
Wild.
He tried to make 2 cophased fullwave groundplane antennas work on a mobile.
Wild.
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I just hope he wraps his nads in foil before keying, ir he'll glow when he watches tv at night.
I just hope he wraps his nads in foil before keying, ir he'll glow when he watches tv at night.
How did he do using that setup?
I can't believe the amount of work some guys put into a keydown truck.... just to load it on a trailer... take it to one spot and key for a half a minute.
I can't imagine the hours this guy put in getting the antenna set up. The ac stuff inside alone must have took a bit to do.
Alot of man hours in that truck.
Did he at least do well ?
I can't believe the amount of work some guys put into a keydown truck.... just to load it on a trailer... take it to one spot and key for a half a minute.
I can't imagine the hours this guy put in getting the antenna set up. The ac stuff inside alone must have took a bit to do.
Alot of man hours in that truck.
Did he at least do well ?
when i made this post i was thinking, its gonna take someone like fl_Native Switch kit or bushwacker to to figure this out, because it looks like alot more than just some thrown together crap.
Props to sha-sha for one rad looking keydown van.
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ONLY 17 days to jacksonville ladys. hope yall got your shtuff ready
the anticipation is so great i can hardly contain my self even though i still need a way to get there :x
Props to sha-sha for one rad looking keydown van.
:-D BIGRED AND IM STANDIN BY
ONLY 17 days to jacksonville ladys. hope yall got your shtuff ready
the anticipation is so great i can hardly contain my self
even though i still need a way to get there :x- No one is chatting at the moment.
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