nostatic
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I'm not Cooltech, but for UHF, shorter is better. Actually most of the time shorter is better as you have cable loss that accumulates with length, but loss at 460MHz is much greater than at 27MHz so with CB the length is less of an issue.Cooltech, regards your kits.
I have your CB tailgate bracket and the Firestik antenna I bought from you but have yet to install.
I've decided I'll install GMRS before we head west again but the 17' coax that seems to come with every antenna would be almost twice what you'd likely need for a hood/fender or cowl mount antenna base. Any reason the cable can't be shorter?
One area this changes is with certain HF antennas where the coax ends up functioning as a counterpoise. In that case you need the full length but that is typically for a base installation.
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