bicycle antennas

[Icom 706 King Cobra]

hello all...



any ideas on good antennas to put on a bike..

have a friend without computer so i am looking for him(kc2mmc)..



HF frequency's as well as 2 meter 222 mhx & 70 cm bands..



if it looks interesting...maybe i will set up a bike station as well...



maybe one of those high siera type antennas for HF...

maybe a triband mobile antenna..

maybe using say a yausu 817 alond with a HT for 222 band..



maybe some bikes are more suitible then others in doing this?



i look foward to some intereting information..



Later all...

KC2MLZ ...


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[Moleculo]

102" whip with an AGC autotuner for HF. Just key it up and talk. The screwdriver antennas are going to be just too heavy for a bicycle, and then you have the problem of tuning them while cycling....

There's a few tribander 2m/220/440 antennas out there.....that would work with a Kenwood TH-F6a prety good. How is he going to power this stuff?



Moleculo


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[Captain Kilowatt]

The Lakeview Hamsticks should work well on a bike.The biggest problem with any antenna is getting enough ground plane for the thing to work.Some guys I have heard of run a counterpoise wire from the bike frame and trail it out behind them as a ground as they are in motion.Not sure if I would want to be dragging a wire behind me if it suddenly snagged something<img src=http://users.joplin.com/dutch64804/posticon1.gif ALT=":1"> or took the feet out from under a pedestrian<img src=http://users.joplin.com/dutch64804/posticon34.gif ALT=":34"> .half wave antennas work well on VHF and UHF as they do not need much of a ground to work well.

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at: 10/7/04 12:14 pm