Best Kit to buy with internal Aerial UK

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Best Kit to buy with internal Aerial UK

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Hi all,

Just bought a CB - Fm/UK+EU with Excaliber internal aerial as cannot have external aerial, so can anyone advise best options for indoor aerial (No loft available) and no chance of using an external pole, so I'm trying to find best kit options. Don't know much about SSB or Ham as used to use CB AM/FM back in the days but have been out of the game for so long.

Looking for advice please :)

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Re: Best Kit to buy with internal Aerial UK

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radio TX and RX works best with an outdoor antenna, so few people using the radio these days so at best no real compromise can be gained for performance.

you can do so much with a bit wire and be extremely discrete. for example using the plastic down pipe from the gutter to hide 18ft or wire using some cable ties and then an antenna matcher. Or even a simple dipole

Hide an antenna in a tree and so forth

try you tube for discrete antennas
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If you can only have an indoor antenna, this is possible by using loop antennas. You can make a half wave circular dipole from 10mm copper pipe on a 40mm plastic waste pipe from hardware shop. It has the advantage of being able to turn it to peak signal reception and null out noise. You can feed it directly at the bottom, or use a 1/5th size loop to inductively feed it. It can be tuned by adjusting the gap at the top of the loop. The diameter required is approx 1.6m, calculate the lengths needed using a standard dipole calculator say for 28Mhz. The half wave loop is a compact, efficient and noise resistant antenna, and it is surprisingly effective low down, use highest room in house and position at largest window. You will need to borrow a SWR analyser to help tune and trim it, do this outside first in the clear before trying to get it right inside.

Then as suggested above hide it outside high up in a leafy tree :lol:

You can make a stealth half wave vertical antenna with a piece of black wire and a matching transformer wound on a piece of plastic pipe. If you take the bottom off a junked silver rod, you can see exactly how it's done. 1:8 turn air cored transformer. Instead of RG58 - use thin coax instead, RG-178. Super thin, easily hidden.
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