Hood material?
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Land Rovers have always used a lot of aluminum. Land Rover started after WW2 and there wasn't much steel in England, so they made much of their vehicles out of aluminum and have continued the tradition to today.
It wasn't the lack of steel, but the surplus of MoD aluminum and the fact that LR didn't have the funds to do steel.
Worked out for them though, aluminum is the way to go.
Or I should be saying...birmabright
Worked out for them though, aluminum is the way to go.
Or I should be saying...birmabright
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I have no quams with it, other then the **** swr I'm getting for lack of ground plane on my antenna mounted on the hood lol. time to run some radials lines under the hood channel.
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Aluminum won't give a ground plane? I thought some antennas were made from Aluminium... Not enough density?
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Its less then idealness comes from its non-ferrous more then its density I think... ham books say the conductivity that matters, and alum. also scores less then ideal there compared to other metals, and the arrl books big and expensive so im goin with thier view lol
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No, seriously, that all makes sense. It's been a LONG time since I've been doing radios, so I know I'm way out of the loop.
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