Stryker SR A10 CB antenna?

Thought those were mandatory for non-English-speaking Fed Ex contract drivers.

White Vulva with oil cans.

 

After waiting for the SR A10 to be out for forever. I decided to try one on my company truck. It's a pick up by the way. The cost was $99 shipped to my door. Didn't own it a week before the pl259 slid right off the end of the coax. It appears to be some kind of compression fitting. Pretty disappointed.

 

Know how you feel. I bought a sir 5000. It came with the plastic piece that holds the coil broken and the PL 239 shorted. Found out it was shorted by blowing the finals in my new Stryker 447.

 

A antenna you have to change the oil in? I don't even like changing the oil in my truck! Think I would figure out a way to put Mobil 1 in that sucka!

 

Just because it is DC shorted doesn't mean it is RF shorted. That inductor is there for a reason. If the SWR was perfect and the load was only 39 ohms then that would probably be enough to blow the finals in your radio.

 

Now you have me confused. Down on the AWI thread , you should a picture indicating the ohms between the center pin and the outer ring should be infinity on the meter. I got a reading of 0 ohms, but that was ok?

 

Don’t let rabbis silly technical jargon confuse you. with your PL 259 shorted, it’s just as hard on your radio as if you left the coax disconnected. Shorted or open coax connection isn’t good.

 

Usually a dc short would be a bad thing. Your Sirio antenna with so239 on the bottom is a rare exception. I hope you didn't throw it away. Try removing the antenna and measuring again. If you disassemble the antenna and discover a shunt matching coil in the base, then this picture doesn't apply.

1476540202611_zps9kkgfdxe by rabbiporkchop posted Feb 6, 2018 at 12:52 PM

 

Usually true but not always.
This dc short is perfectly fine.

 

Yeah all of that technical silliness gets in the way of what appears to be a common sense thing.