Until that stock radio gets its duck lips cut off. 4 watts ain’t getting it done for long.
A lack of cb radio owners.
Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by TehBeardedTrucker, Aug 20, 2018.
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The most frequent use I find for my cb is to tell the ungoverned trucks behind me on a two lane hwy that I'll get off the throttle anytime they want to get around me. They don't have to guess whether I know what's what and i wont leave them hanging in the left lane longer than they need to be. Seems to be well received.
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Two to three miles? On 4 watts? How? I can't get more than a mile and I have a little "helper" hooked up. My antenna is brand new, 1:1 swr, mounted high up on the top of the door, not on the mirror. It's a NGP antenna meaning I know it won't get as good as a great ground plane antenna, but dang.
I got about 5 miles one time talking to that CB shop in West Memphis. I held onto them out until I got on 240 in Tennessee. I think that was about 5 miles. -
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My problem is the grounding. These #### plastic trucks offer no ground. My SWR with a nice 6' antenna before was 3:1. It would go up from there if I adjusted it. I still have the nice 6' antenna, collecting dust at the house.
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1.2 to 1. With power on less than one percent reflect. I talk 70 miles some days to local base stations.
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Off subject slightly, but I just moved into my new home that we own, and not rent. Wife wont let me have radios in the house, so I'm gonna build a new ham shack outside, next summer. Golly, I cant wait! And of course itll have probably every CB I own in there! I'm almost wetting the bed typing this!
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