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You use a 6-8 inch long aluminum bar that add's length and moves the antenna horizontally away from the vehicle. Assuming it is being mounted to a metal bumber on a truck this keeps it out of the way of the tail gate, gives you the extra length and keeps the SWR flat from 26-28 and still really good from 29 to 32Mhz . I think I was using 18 feet of LMR 240 or 400. This was used from 1991 to 1998 on 1986 Toyota 4Runner. It is hard to find a spring that is worth a darn most of them have cheap wire, cheap still and cheap other bits that rust.

[QUOTE="Onelasttime, post: 551502, member: 21190"] You use a 6-8 inch long aluminum bar that add's length and moves the antenna horizontally away from the vehicle. Assuming it is being mounted to a metal bumber on a truck this keeps it out of the way of the tail gate, gives you the extra length and keeps the SWR flat from 26-28 and still really good from 29 to 32Mhz . I think I was using 18 feet of LMR 240 or 400. This was used from 1991 to 1998 on 1986 Toyota 4Runner. It is hard to find a spring that is worth a darn most of them have cheap wire, cheap still and cheap other bits that rust. [/QUOTE]

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