Rodholder mounted antenna

摘要

A portable transceiver antenna is provided with a base suitable for retention by a fishing rodholder or for hand held use and is pretuned to facilitate its use without a ground plane. The antenna includes an electrically conductive rod which may be covered by a dielectric and segmented, and would then include couplings fabricated from ferrules closely fitted over nipples to produce reliable electrical contact through the coupling. The antenna may be used with citizens band, very high frequency - frequency modulated, and similar applications.