Something kind of odd

It is a 379, it has metal doors etc. The mirror brackets are grounded from the factory but I had added another ground from the brackets to the door and another ground from the door to the cab (across the hinge). I did this a few years ago. I also grounded the hood (metal) and I had run extra ground straping from the frame to the cab and from the motor to the frame and cab.

 

It pisses me off, I tried to get our shop to check the bats out yesterday. All he did was hook up a meter with the truck running to see what the voltage was. And he made it seem like that was an unneeded chore. I am going to try and swing by my brothers and grab my load tester this morning and go in early and load test the bats myself.

I have a feeling that one of the bats might have gone south because my voltage will drop quickly down to a tad over 12 volts. I mean it only takes a couple minutes at most.

I want to fine tune the antennas but I need to make sure this issue is fixed first. I am sure both whips need to be trimmed a little because swr is a little higher on 20 and 40 then it is on 1. But when the truck is running it is high across the board.

I thought I had another stock cobra here but I had forgotten that I had "borrowed" it to another driver over a year ago and never got it back and now that driver is gone. I am done borrowing #### to other people.