Cascadia Antenna Solutions

your a good man but I already knew that

 

your as young as you feel that makes me about 150 years old. my last bike was the old school Suzuki gsxr 1100. they say life begins at 170 mph

 

170 + certainly make you wake up for sure..

 

Im as only as good as my radio and ant..Right now i suck..3-4 miles..Only thing i changed was my coax and radios physical placement..Mfj ahows all my basic ant req have been met but im missing something..Lol worse thing is,it gets me so mad i wanna wreck it but also more determined to digure out whats wrong...Most of you all here know soooooo much more than me and you all talk over my head..One day all this info will click..I just gotta find the effing switch..To tired to be mad now..polished my truck to vent till i find a new thing to try..

 

I just take that metal plate off the dash. and mount my bracket right there on the dash. both my radios are big so I run the big black brack they sell $15 In west Memphis at rays shop.Effingham cb has them. have you thought about putting a ground strap on your radio.they sell a small one works perfect on a cb.I run it radio to the quall com metal bracket. the quall com naturally is grounded.I run a phar rite on the quall com cable. to suppress rf. I just put a towel over the radio to keep the sun off. and thieves seeing what I've got !!!

 

I had my radio on top of the dash but i used part of the qualcomm mount (on dash next to weight gauge)and a plastic cutting board for radio bracket so it sits on the top of the dash....As i was reading im sure i saw someting saying a ground strap wouldnt do anything and my qualcomm sits on the floor...Never used ferrites before and based on the statement tells me that your power wire and coax should not be near one another..

 

yeah I just changed trucks to another crapcadia. and no my power cord and coax are not right next to each other.I've got some changes to make. but I've got a 1.1 match on channels 1-40 the ground strap it's small and works for me. but I'm also running a 375 watt radio. I doubt I'm even going to hook up my 8 pill ...

 

Didnt think the pwr should be next to it..Not to many ways to run power and coax..

 

yeah I run my coax up the left side door thru the slot. over the top of the plastic air cleaner crap down thru the firewall slot up into my radio. it's not touching metal or where it can get too hott. how are you making out getting your settlement from the postal service by the way ???

 

Well thats alot of coax to be routeing..More than the 15 ft piece that rabbi and hard drive formula suggests..