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Back around 1982, I used to work for Jim Kern of Fix-It Man CB -aka- Kern's CB Sales and Service, who claimed he invented the Spread Eagle Antenna. He started out with a shop just south of Toledo Ohio, and opened a 2nd shop on I-40 in central Tennessee (when I was age 18), before he sold both places and moved to Monteagle Tenn. Spread Eagle was later sold to Barjan (who manufactured them for him), who later mothballed the idea.
I still have the bottom element of one of these in storage, which has a large static ball on the tip end, under the cap. Each element was isolated from the bracket by double insulators, and using eyelets on the end of the coax, the "hot" went to the top, and the shield went to the bottom element (with the static ball described above). It was designed as a "No Ground Antenna", and we installed them on ground problem trucks, and even used them in some places as "no ground" low profile base antennas.

<blockquote data-quote="NZ8N" data-source="post: 753189" data-attributes="member: 51368"><a href="http://www.cbtricks.com/pub/secret_cb/vol_12/graphics/secret_cb_vol_12_pg54_55.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cbtricks.com/pub/secret_cb/vol_12/graphics/secret_cb_vol_12_pg54_55.pdf</a>Back around 1982, I used to work for Jim Kern of Fix-It Man CB -aka- Kern&#039;s CB Sales and Service, who claimed he invented the Spread Eagle Antenna.&nbsp; He started out with a shop just south of Toledo Ohio, and opened a 2nd shop on I-40 in central Tennessee (when I was age 18), before he sold both places and moved to Monteagle Tenn.&nbsp; Spread Eagle was later sold to Barjan (who manufactured them for him), who later mothballed the idea.I still have the bottom element of one of these in storage, which has a large static ball on the tip end, under the cap.&nbsp; Each element was isolated from the bracket by double insulators, and using eyelets on the end of the coax, the &quot;hot&quot; went to the top, and the shield went to the bottom element (with the static ball described above).&nbsp; It was designed as a &quot;No Ground Antenna&quot;, and we installed them on ground problem trucks, and even used them in some places as &quot;no ground&quot; low profile base antennas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NZ8N, post: 753189, member: 51368"] [URL]http://www.cbtricks.com/pub/secret_cb/vol_12/graphics/secret_cb_vol_12_pg54_55.pdf[/URL] Back around 1982, I used to work for Jim Kern of Fix-It Man CB -aka- Kern's CB Sales and Service, who claimed he invented the Spread Eagle Antenna. He started out with a shop just south of Toledo Ohio, and opened a 2nd shop on I-40 in central Tennessee (when I was age 18), before he sold both places and moved to Monteagle Tenn. Spread Eagle was later sold to Barjan (who manufactured them for him), who later mothballed the idea. I still have the bottom element of one of these in storage, which has a large static ball on the tip end, under the cap. Each element was isolated from the bracket by double insulators, and using eyelets on the end of the coax, the "hot" went to the top, and the shield went to the bottom element (with the static ball described above). It was designed as a "No Ground Antenna", and we installed them on ground problem trucks, and even used them in some places as "no ground" low profile base antennas. [/QUOTE]

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