[CRAPRS] mounting suggestions

[bsmccoy at rockwellcollins.com]

I did a couple APRS  installs this week, and found out that from the trunk 
of both cars, you can slide the GPS antenna up through the back deck metal 
and under the back deck cardboard near the base of the rear window.  This 
affords an invisible inside GPS antenna installation.  The antenna 
apparently sees the sky just fine, as they were working well inside the 
garage.  Both antennas were mag mount patches, but wouldn't need to be 
magnetically attached, as the deck material holds the antennas quite 
firmly. 

Just thought  you would like to know.  I was half tempted to drive the 2 
meter 1/4 wave whip up through that material, and keep it just  inside the 
back window as well, but it is still an external mag mount antenna.  The 
TX antenna is in need of a real mount, probably off the trunk hinge. 

Bryan
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