I PUT A MASSIVE ANTENNA ON MY CAR AND SPOKE TO THE USA!!! 

If that antenna gets much longer, you'll be able to exploit the electrical differential between earth and upper atmosphere and power your car for free 🤔😂😂💥

In Andy Kirby's next video.... How I survived a lightning strike!! That'd be a cool antenna for my camper van!! Ideal due to "limited" storage space!

That mike in the USA has the deepest voice iv ever heard. Great contact ,and fabulous antenna!

Bought one of those telescopic anteannas a few months ago from Knights. Best antenna I've had for quick portable use on my lunch breaks at work. So easy to drop a few sections and switch between bands too. Pushes out a great signal.. I use mine on my BMW Mini roof so at full stretch on 20m just imagine how that thing looks! Haha. Try attaching some light wire the same length as the anteanna to the top using a little crocodile clip. It will give you 40m too.

That is the most ridiculous antenna I've ever seen on a car, but I love it!! Haha

Andy I use the tape measure as a counterpoise on the atu same length as the whip is set too

Maybe you can put a spring in there would help protect the whip.

I don't have a cb at all but I caught a vid a few weeks ago and here I am again, happy Thanksgiving from the Orlando area.

That sounded as my Friend W4RN Michael's Voice right at the Beginning of the Video... happy thx giving Andy...👍👍👍

I have the storm500 the first one was faulty, Moonraker sent a replacement FOC and it works brilliant especially for its size and very easy to tune for a low SWR 👍

I used to run a 20m quarter wave on my Mini, made from Larkspur tank whip sections. When I was driving! Worked ZL from the middle of town once.

Enjoying your work & music....

Great demonstration! Bought one of these direct from a Chinese supplier - comes with an M10 thread so needed re-tapping with a 3/8 dye to fit my adapters - a simple job. Cut a 1m length of aluminium support pole hammered into ground as earth spike, 3/8 to pl259 adapter /clamp and works a treat! I use a VNA at base of antenna and telescope antenna for best SWR. Simple and efficient Ground Plane! Would be great for camping and motorhomes portable setup.

The Harrie1 antenna. Same telescopic whip Take 4 measuring tape's 5 meter long. Drill a hole in the beginning of the metal. Use as 4 x radials .

Good going Andy and good fun! I'm surprised no-one has marketed a giant stainless whip before. Keep up the good work.

Happy Thanksgiving from Texas❗️👍. 73. KV5P

15m is always a great band to work (almost as exciting as when 12m is open). Nice one Andy!

Just be careful not to drive under the trolleybus network :)

That was amazing Andy. The car look sick with the whip.

Wow that was amazing great antenna with so many clear signals brilliant. Loving the end audio track keep up the great work.

Great DX. It is nice the higher bands are opening up.

I already had use similar antenna in mid 80's along with long bottom rod that were tied into 108 inch 11 meter CB mobile antenna whip on top of parked car's rooftop. I really had notice 20 meter activity were very so hot.

Add a few gigawatts ,a flux capacitor and a clock tower and you could time travel with that thing. Really cool contact. I mostly use dual band 2m/70cm hooked to a jpole and have made some really good contacts here in the USA. I also enjoy using SSB on cb radio using a magnetic mounted Stryker A10 antenna , my longest contact has been little over 1900 miles without a linear just well tuned radio. It’s really cool to see you be able to contact other countries from your mobile set up. Thanks for sharing

That’s an excellent portable set up. Can easily drive to a scenic outlook on a Saturday morning, pick up your favorite cup of brew, set yourself up in a nice parking spot, and within a half an hour you’ll probably have at least a half a dozen contacts.

What a good idea. Thanks for the info on this Antenna. By the way keep those tunes coming 👍👍

I've used the MFJ version of this (1979) for parks on the air. Does a great job all the time. I've even put it fully extended on the car a few time... Quite a site! BTW, it will work on 7mhz with the MFJ coil.

Fantastic! And what a toon to end on, absolute banger! 👌

Nice contacts Andy the antenna is definitely working for you. Now the music at the end got me going too ... 73's.

Brilliant stuff Andy. Thanks for sharing

Makes your car look like a R/C car! I have ran 102" whips the longer the better. I'm amazed you reached Michigan! I'm in Michigan. Good video Sir!

Antenna worked well and really looked good in the TT 😁

That's probably big enough to make an End Fed Half Wave on 10/11 metres. Now if I made a small box which screwed between the mount and antenna and the box contained a 49.1 transformer..................... Hmm

Really funny ,brought back a memory of a old ham friend that had this huge colinear antenna on his car.decades ago it broke out some flouresant tubes at gas station canopy.lol.

This is really cool, I'll have to look into getting one of these antennas for my car. Cheers!

Cracking video Andy, well done from the mobile 73s from Dublin.

Always great to watch your content. I always opt for mag mount fixings but see you have a fixed system. Any chance of a review on this some time in the future. Cheers

Another great video, I would love to see how that icom tuner does. Looking forward to that video.

I love the telescopic antenna, it's insane!!

Love the telescopic - especially if the come with free tape measures (lol I am so cheap !).

Thanks for sharing your story and QSO, Especially enjoyed you using the magnetic mount on your car ! Thinking I should try it sometime in near future. Appreciate you sharing the video. I enjoyed watching. 73 Steve AA4SH

Good music at the end too 👍

Great Video Andy and what a banging tune 👌

Andy you have done it again, well done.

I have a 213" telescopic antenna from Wolf River Coil. I plan to order a second one and try making a dipole. I'm glad to see from your video that they are strong enough to extend horizontally, should work nice on 40m, no loading coils! 73 - KC1OCA

Nice antenna. Nice radio. Good video.

For dx you dont need hills, unless you use the side as a reflector. On rocky ground is rubbish signal straight up. Best ground is wet ground, farmland or the sea, great video ordered one.

How cool is that, perfect for every band👍🇨🇭

It's easy to figure the length of a straight, tubular 1/4 wavelength vertical antenna (which Andy is using). This NEVER changes. The length is feet is equal to 234 divided by the frequency (in MHz). MHz is the abbreviation for Megahertz. Andy was speaking on 21.385 MHz. So, take 234 and divide it by 21.385. Your answer is expressed in feet. 73 to all Mike Amateur Radio W4RN Round Hill, Virginia USA

Loved that Andy, might get meself one of them Whips! Do you know I had a feeling the was Uncle Mike again, lol. Take care buddy.

Thanks Andy for a nice video. Subscribed and clicked the "All Bell".

That's crazy mate! USA on 10 Watts! Oh by the way I passed this morning woohooo 🥳 waiting for certificate

Nice electronic music in background mate, nice mobile static set up, 73

Great antenna Andy. I will buy me one! The best from LB1NH. The music is also very good!

great job .nice moonraker has them. in the US they are common hear. MFJ has one. even coils for 40/80 meters and with 2 -80 meter coils will tune 160 meters. when adding coil the Q goes up and tunning can be tricky. should work great 6 meters. maybe even 4 meters but in the US we don't have 4 meter ham. bring a laptop and you can work some digital with that 7100 . you can do parks on the air from the UK . becoming big in the US. I do POTA with IC 7300 and battery with a wire antenna . even 6 meters FT8 contacts. 73's

Superb as usual Andy :-)

Lovin the tunes great video as all ways 73s😁

Look like a RC Race Car, The Telescopic Antenna can be use with a MFJ Antenna Tuner,

Hi Andy great video. I always enjoy experimenting with antennas too. About 4 hours ago M0SZT posted a new video about a loop antenna. Not sure what part of the UK he lives in.

My copy of "The Foundation Licence Manual for Radio Amateurs" arrived today.................... And it's all your fault.

Nice video, interesting antenna.

We are reviewing you Andy, NANOO NANOO 👾

Nice and easy setup I like it. why do you feel the need to run the whip with a tuner? unless you are going for a lower frequency antenna. 1/4 wave is a very good antenna and hard to beat. you will just degrade the antenna with the tuner. unless you are just trying to get away from getting out of the car.

oh i like the warning at 1:10 "Please note this is NOT designed for mobile use" which is exactly what you did 😆

Reminds me of a cb'er 46 years ago who mounted a half wave ringo antenna to his car and parked outside my place and called me on air. My cb jumped it was so strong! Later we became radio amateurs and he became a radio inspector.

Can you please post a link to the adapter and mounting kit you were using. Thanks for another fun video.

Great music at the end

Nice music at the end of your vidéo Andy, i like your channel, share with us how you make these sounds, remind me good electronic memories, best 73

Amazing Andy how far you can get.

Nice review Andy,great incoming signals you were getting too!! What power was you running ? 73

Can you use the telescopic on 11 meters Andy? It looks nice piece of kit. Thanks for great videos.73s

Impressive!! I speak to the USA regularly, but I'm in California so that's not impressive at all. It's also unimpressive when they speak back.

That thing is massive. lol great video

HI andy , that telescopic antenna looks fantastic got to have one! What mount do you use on your car? Did you have any problems with earthing? im looking at getting a couple . Cheers and 73s

Andy .. any chance of doing a review on the Sharmen antenna .. ive got a Diamond X50 in my loft. The Sharmen looks very similar and would sit nicely in my loft for 27mhz

look like it's taken off a massive great boombox

Hi Andy will buy the antenna telescopic on my scanner but I have a BNC do you know what adapter I need to get look forward to hearing from you paul In Orpington

Perhaps someone needs to create a GPS smart enough to know when to raise and lower an antenna like this while driving down a highway.

What about the other antenna we saw at the beginning?

Hi Andy great video what's the radio that you are using thanks Stu

That’s amazing

Ah now I see what your were talking about😃. That is definitely one mad arse whip just don't forget you have it on the car 🤔😁

Cool channel 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Do you think you could use this telescopic antenna with your Wonder Wand widebander ? I'm just getting back into cb after 30 odd years and am trying to catch up on the latest equipment and scrape together a cheap, portable rig to get out on for a bit of fun. I've seen off-brand versions of these large telescopics for around 20quid, and then a 30w HF full band 5-55mhz QRP antenna for around 45 quid. I'm just wondering if they could be used together, and if that would give me a decent portable option for relatively cheap. What do you think?

Spoke to you last night on 350, got to New Zealand on one of those, they don't like the wind tho 73's

Nice going into the U.S.

that was very cool

Nicely done Andy! I do wonder if the socket on the icom tuner is strong enough for that whip? What’s your view?

love it

They're roody expensive though those telescopic antennas.

6:20 it sounds like the robot that says the emergency alerts in the usa

Want to put a 3 disk magnet mount on the roof of my Ram Truck so i can do the same thing with the same antenna, I also have Hamsticks 10m-40m I will use also

That was cool 😎

Would be great in a limited space environment.

jejejej fantastic antenna wooow terrific congratulations 73 from kb2uew

Youre nuts mate! Love it. Thats why im subbed. 7100 is a bad@$$ radio and I have one too. 73 from USA kk4ydr

What mount did you use on your card trunk?

Lol, now I've got to go put one on my Mk I. :)

Hi Andy. We have an accessible Motorhome and want a good AM/FM or a side band CB. What would you recommend and anyone who could possibly fit?

where’s the adapter from

Just goes to show, you need propagation...and any compromise antenna will work... Roll on big openings on 28MHz

thats bonkers