ORIGINAL: dant-RCU
NO.
You cut the antenna to leave a length of 4 to 10 inches. It is not for mounting purposes per se - has to do with how the base loaded antenna plus the remaining antenna wire length is "seen" by the receiver. Normally I cut mine to 6 inches.
Dan
I've been doing a bunch of reading past posts on this subject.
It appears to me that I might need to "tune" the length of my antenna wire to get the maximum range out of the Deans base loaded antenna.
Seams some guys hate them and can't make them work. Poor range checks.
Other guys love them, great range checks and reception.
But, noone is elaborating on whether or not they had to cut the antenna off a little at a time to get it all "tuned".
I guess I'll start off with my antenna wire 10" long and keep range checking and cutting the wire off untill I get the max range check.