Cascadia dipole?

The 5 foot top loaded whip should work decently.

 

I would have stuck with a 5ft but I drop down below ch. 1 often, or use to, and a 5ft wasn't broad banded enough. Leaving the SWR meter in all the time will most likely hurt your performance somewhat according to what I've always been told.

Ref. Hood's. Jim is a pretty good tech. He has been doing it his whole life, His Dad took care of all the business radios in the Springfield area years ago (including MHP) and Jim got started in radio early in life. Russ was impressed with his diagnostic abilities. He worked in Jim's shop there at Hood's for awhile until his shop in Arkansas became available again.

 

I've spent many an hour in Jim's shop before Russ came to town.

All I know about the "in-line" stuff is what those more knowledgeable have told me. You could always do your own test if you had somebody reliable on the other end and see for yourself. I did cable TV work for a while. You lose a little signal every time you cut the coax and install a splitter or something....makes sense when you think about it.

 

First the radio being peaked and tuned has no effect on the swr , swr is the antenna and coax only it will be the same reading no matter what radio you hook to it. In fact most cb shops use a meter to test the swr without the radio even being hooked up.
And second a peaked and tuned cobra 29 should be pushing alot more than 4 watts hell most of them are hitting 6 or seven right out of the box

 

Pas-pm2000a_xl by hayseed posted Mar 21, 2016 at 7:49 PM[/GALLERY I'm running this PalStar 2000 in line to keep an eye on the SWR and watts. I had it tested against a high dollar antenna analyzer and it was spot on.

 

No matter what antenna you use, you're not going to see much more than 3-4 miles of range running mobile on flat terrain on CB frequencies, unless the band is open. I guarantee it. Save your time and money.