More Cascadia woes

Very interesting. I will look into the wx band and see. I took the truck to a cb shop on Saturday, and they went through the antenna system and didn't find any issues. SWR's are 1.3, and receive is fine. It was also doing the same thing on the stock system. I really don't think it's an antenna or ground issue, but rather a truck and/or radio issue...most likely a truck issue. I am going thru Wildwood today, so I'll stop at the cb shop there and see if they can see anything.

On another note, Stryker radios did call me back yesterday. The tech found my problem quite odd and hadn't heard of anything like that. But he also didn't think it was the radio...rather something within the truck causing interference.

 

The alternator on the apu went out, and they replaced it. I checked the cables and word running off of the battery and nothing is loose or broken. On top of that if it indeed was a truck electrical problem, the ecu would have thrown a check engine light.

 

No, but it will throw a code and start load shedding if it senses an electrical issue anywhere in the system. Also if there was a loose battery cable, other electrical systems would be affected as well...but yes, I checked them all with a wrench.

They said it sounded like an antenna issue. When I told him that the antenna system has already been tested twice before, he said that doesn't matter...so they checked it and said swr was at a 2 (most likely because they checked it in their garage instead of outside.) He said that was the cause of the feedback, and wanted to put my antenna on a bird perch on the mirror...but he refused to reuse the coax that I bought last week and wanted to charge me $100+ to do it. On top of that, they don't work on Stryker radios.

 

I will get it done, but I'm going to take it back to place that originally did it. I already paid them $150, and by God, they can make it right. I will run power from the battery as soon as I get a little free time. Thanks for the advice.