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Post by doctor on Nov 9, 2015 9:58:58 GMT -5
DOES anyone remember the triplexer, where you could use the am/fm antenna on your car for cb???, and who made them.
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Post by MonkeyMan on Nov 9, 2015 10:43:36 GMT -5
I remember the "Secret Sam"...  |
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Post by Sandbagger on Nov 9, 2015 11:24:01 GMT -5
I remember the "Secret Sam"... Yea, I remember those diplexers/matchers that allowed you to run a CB on a car radio antenna. It did work....... although not very well. But it did allow you to run around in "stealth" mode. |
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Post by cbrown on Nov 10, 2015 9:26:54 GMT -5
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Post by 2600 on Nov 20, 2015 22:58:28 GMT -5
The only one of these I remember that worked at all was sold by Antenna Specialists back in the 70s. It was the whole antenna, and the combiner was also a tuner for the CB side. Only way to make a 3-foot whip tune to CB without a loading coil on it.
There were some others that claimed to work on CB with a standard factory auto antenna, but my experience with those was that you had a receive-only antenna for CB. Transmit performance was disappointing.
Even the one that worked would limit you to 'barefoot' power, as in 4 Watt carrier. Had one customer who blew up the linear and the combiner box trying to run power on a stealth antenna.
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