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Mobile Car Antenna: 25 items found

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NEW BLACK Viper 25,000 watt CB Ham Radio Mobile 3/8 x 24 Stud Antenna Car truck $54.95 19d 17h 44m
Wilson 801212 Cellular Mobile Car Vehicle Amplifier 301103 + 2 antenna incl. $319.99 6d 10h 33m
NEW Silver Viper 25,000 watt CB Ham Radio Mobile 3/8 x 24 Stud Antenna Car truck $54.95 19d 17h 23m
NAGOYA NL-77BL mobile dual band 144/430 Mhz car antenna Yaesu NL77BL 100W 670mm $33.38 12d 21h 45m
Carcomm Power Cradle for Motorola Atrix Mobile Car Charger Kit + Antenna Coupler $138.34 23d 0h 42m
Car Mobile ATSC-M/H Digital TV Tuner Receiver Box for USA US /S1 Active Antenna $119.00 22d 20h 51m
Carcomm Power Cradle for Nokia C5-00 Mobile Car Charger Kit with Antenna Coupler $138.34 14d 2h 11m
Carcomm Power Cradle for Nokia N8 Mobile Car Charger Kit with Antenna Coupler $138.34 14d 2h 17m
Carcomm Power Cradle for HTC EVO 3D Mobile Car Charger Kit with Antenna Coupler $138.34 23d 0h 9m

Articles

Tapping mobile DTV viewers

May 24, 2011 | (Broadcast Engineering Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Is your station planning to tap into the 77 million household audience by providing mobile television programming? In a press release, Anne Schelle, executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) said, “OMVC continues to track the progress made by broadcasters who are turning on mobile DTV. The numbers of broadcasters on-the-air with mobile continues to rise, with 76 stations now on the air in 32 markets ... Between those stations already on-air and those who are coming soon, we project that mobile DTV will reach more than 77 million households or more than two-thirds of all viewers in America – in the next twelve months.” The coalition released the report at the January CES conclave in Las Vegas. The report reviewed the results of a 2010 Washington, D.C., area test of digital mobile television delivered by OTA broadcasters. The test involved approximately 345 viewers in the D.C. area. Almost 200 participants watched Read more »

Chirhart shares results of New Orleans Jazz Fest multiband pilot

May 19, 2011 |

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate launched a 30-day pilot in New Orleans in partnership with law-enforcement and emergency-management agencies. The pilot tested the latest multiband radio technology, which lets disparate agencies communicate across jurisdictions regardless of radio band. Specifically, Harris’s Unity XG-100P multiband radio’s interoperability was tested by state, local and regional fire and police departments during the city’s Jazz and Heritage Festival, which ended May 8. The pilot has been extended so that Louisiana agencies can test this system further in preparation for hurricane season, said Thomas Chirhart, program manager of the multiband radio program.

We wanted to test, based upon the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, primarily, the need for an alkaline or disposal battery pack. I have a picture of a New Orleans police car underwater and the only thing showing is the emergency lights. And when you have a complete system failure with your power-grid and assets are underwater, submerged with patrol cars and fire apparatus, there’s no chance to seek a solution to recharge batteries. So we’ve identified that an alkaline or disposable radio battery pack was essential.

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Feb 08, 2012 | This is the wire replacement antenna for mobile scanners. It's a reasonable option for those who don't want to mount an outside antenna on their car. Read more »

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Nov 27, 2010 | HTC TouchFLO?; 4-Way Navigation Wheel with Enter button; HTC Footprints? button; Internal GPS antenna; Bluetooth® 2 A2DP, Wi-Fi; 3.2 MP camera,

And Another Thing: I'm Still Not Watching Mobile TV

Nov 23, 2010 | For months I kept with me the first Verizon VCast 3G phones back when they had an antenna. I did the same with the first iterations of Sprint TV on 3G Food deserts | Closed grocery stores leave a void in rural areas

Food deserts | Closed grocery stores leave a void in rural areas

Nov 25, 2010 | The elderly Tom Skidmore of Osage City rides his motorized scooter, an American flag flapping from an antenna. Thornton Wells of Osage City walks through,

Winegard Readies Mobile DTV For Cars

Nov 19, 2010 | Iowa - Antenna company Winegard plans first-quarter availability of an ATSC-Mobile/Handheld video system for the car at a suggested $799,

Airport IT Trends 2010: Sharing the experience

Nov 25, 2010 | Atlanta now hosts all its car rental companies at one central off-airport complex equipped with common-use self-service kiosks, CCTV, a mobile phone

Questions & Answers

Can existing car phone antenna wire (thru the glass type) be used to connect a mobile CB/Scanner?

Jan 26, 2007 by c0ff3ytime
Wireless antenna similar to cable TV.
A car phone antenna is tuned for car phone frequencies (800/900/1800/1900MHz depending where you are and what bands it covers). You could use a scanner with it on higher UHF frequencies quite well, however performance would suffer on VHF. Still, it could be a step better than using a tuned rubber duck inside the car. CB is even further off frequency, being around 27MHz. The reception would be shoddy and if you transmitted into it your SWR would be very high and you could ruin your radio. If you replaced the whip with something tunable at the frequencies of interest you could probably use the rest of it.The need for a car I believe is a phone or TNC connector Mini UHF, which differ from the scanner (usually BNC) or CB (also BNC for SO-239/PL-259, mobile phone) to you. 'd have to use adapters to plug in the cable.
  • A car phone antenna is tuned for car phone frequencies (800/900/1800/1900MHz depending where you are and what bands it covers). You could use a scanner with it on higher UHF frequencies quite well, however performance would suffer on VHF. Still, it could be a step better than using a tuned rubber duck inside the car. CB is even further off frequency, being around 27MHz. The reception would be shoddy and if you transmitted into it your SWR would be very high and you could ruin your radio. If you replaced the whip with something tunable at the frequencies of interest you could probably use the rest of it.The need for a car I believe is a phone or TNC connector Mini UHF, which differ from the scanner (usually BNC) or CB (also BNC for SO-239/PL-259, mobile phone) to you. 'd have to use adapters to plug in the cable.

Can I use a mobile style CB antenna that is meant for a car, as a base-station CB antenna on my home?

Sep 22, 2008 by drwebster93
I have a mobile style antenna that is meant for a car and uses a magnet to attach to the roof of a car. I want to know if I could use it as an antenna for my base station CB radio. My plan was to solder and/or screw four steel backing sheets together and then mount them on my roof, to make a flat surface and to use as a ground plane. Then I could take advantage of the magnetic base of the antenna and just stick it in the middle of the four baking sheets. Will this work?
Again, as metioned above, the results may not be optimal.
But, given a little consideration, I think it is do-able as follows:

- You can use a square iron or steel base-plate that the antenna magnet will stick to.
- Drill a hole in each of 4 corners of the plate for attaching radial copper wires. The copper wires needs a firm clean connection to the base-plate.
- Each copper wire radial arm needs to be about 18 feet long. 18 ft is ~ 1/4 wavelength at 27 Mhz CB band. With the 4 radials extended full length from each of the 4 corners of the base plate, this will create a ground plane for the antenna system.

The weakest link in this scenario may be the vertical antenna component itself. As mentioned, antenna elements generally need to be around 1/4 wavelenght for best effeciency. The vertical elements of Mobile Antennnas are generally far less than 1/4 wave (~18 ft.) and thus will never be as effecient as a full 1/4 wave vertical element.

Go ahead and try it. Experimenting with antennas is half the fun of radio communications. It may not be optimal, but it may be a cheap "functional" option, if implemented with care. You can decide afterwards if investing in a commercially manufactured, full size, base antenna is a better solution.
  • it will work, but not very well! you will not be happy.

    The bigger the antenna, the better the antenna. Mobile antennas are marginal at best.

    The metal base needs to be 18 feet in diameter for proper match.

Other Stores

Image Item Price Store Description
EMStick 3G Antenna for Rogers Rocket Mobile Hotspot $49.99 Newegg.com Antenna can be attached to the back of the laptop display, on a car or home window, etc. It comes with about eight feet of cable. The adapter is easily replaceable so that if you change your device you can simply buy the new connection. This antenna employs powerful 3MTM adhesive if permanent installation is desired, and includes the direct-connection adapter for the Rogers Rocket Mobile Hotspot.
EMStick 3G Antenna for T-Mobile Jet 2.0 $39.99 Newegg.com Antenna can be attached to the back of the laptop display, on a car or home window, etc. The adapter is easily replaceable so that if you change your device you can simply buy the new connection. It comes with about eight feet of cable. This antenna employs powerful 3MTM adhesive if permanent installation is desired, and includes the direct-connection adapter for the T-Mobile Jet 2.0.
EMStick 3G Antenna for Virgin Mobile BroadBand2Go MC760 $49.99 Newegg.com It comes with about eight feet of cable. The adapter is easily replaceable so that if you change your device you can simply buy the new connection. Antenna can be attached to the back of the laptop display, on a car or home window, etc. This antenna employs powerful 3MTM adhesive if permanent installation is desired, and includes the direct-connection adapter for the Virgin Mobile BroadBand2Go MC760.
EMStick 3G Antenna for Virgin Mobile BroadBand260 $49.99 Newegg.com Antenna can be attached to the back of the laptop display, on a car or home window, etc. The adapter is easily replaceable so that if you change your device you can simply buy the new connection. This antenna employs powerful 3MTM adhesive if permanent installation is desired, and includes the direct-connection adapter for the Virgin Mobile BroadBand260. It comes with about eight feet of cable.