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[A/S] Good bumper mount ideas?



Attention Airstream hams (and you know who you are, and Hunter, forgive me).

With Field Day around the corner, and, for me, CQP in the future (October),
I've been thinking of how to do some antenna mounting on the trailer.

Namely, I've got an old Hy-Gain 18VS which ought to work very well from
portable locations. For those of you unfamiliar with them, it's essentially
a quarter-wave whip with a loading coil at the bottom with a variable tap.

Ideally, I'd like to mount it on the back bumper (far enough away to prevent
RF feedback); but I haven't seen anything that will allow me to temporarily
mount and unmount it to that big back bumper without drilling some holes in
it (which I'm loathe to do).

Anyone come up with anything clever for this yet?

Thanks, and feel free to e-mail me directly (and keep the list open for
other discussions).

warren