Setting up an outdoor directional antenna
A directional antenna must be free to rotate 360 degrees around its vertical
axis; you can probably imagine some of the difficulties in fabricating a mount-
ing system. Most directional antennas include hardware (usually U-bolts, bar
clamps, and nuts) designed to allow the mounting of the antenna to a pole.
By using the included pole-mounting hardware to attach the antenna to a
short piece of pipe, you've created half of the mount.
The second half of this high-tech (yeah, right) mount consists of another short
piece of pipe with an inside diameter that's equal to -- or ever so slightly
larger than -- the outside diameter of the pipe to which you've mounted your
antenna. This second piece of pipe is what you affix, by whatever method you
deem appropriate, to the body of your vehicle. The first pipe cleverly slides
into the second pipe, leaving the directional antenna free to rotate in any
direction, as shown in Figure 4-10.
Figure 4-10: This is how the mount I describe might look in its finished form.
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