Very cool stuff, thank you for clarifying! Google really wasn't helping me find answers, it kept coming up with how to tune antennas. There's no...
So I'm able to pick up skip from other states even though I'm using a 4w radio, it's the antenna that will receive this signal? If I'm wrong here,...
Hey all, Trying for a simple answer here. I have a mobile 4w radio in a jeep. I had read that 4w and 12w can not communicate. I'm in Colorado...
It's a midland 75 822 with squelch only. A lot less skip currently, I had been able to hear a good amount of random conversation.
I definitely hear a lot less chatter over the radio now that it's been tuned, almost nothing at all unless it comes in clear. I had been able to...
well thats good to see, being a bit ignorant I wasnt sure if these folks were just blowing me off or if it was a lack of what I did not know (...
Ok, the radio does not have a built in swr meter, I'm not sure if that's what was thought as written above. Ide always read the radio is used to...
hey all, just finished with installing my antenna and took it back to the local shop to have it tuned. They trimmed it before it was ever...
lol im no cop, funny movie though. just a dude with a jeep trying to learn what ive gotten myself into, if theres anything at all to connect to....
Yes the noise largely follows RPMs, I'll look into this rf choke. I wouldn't mind cutting off the cigarette lighter power and running directly to...
I'm in Colorado, channel 6 crazys jabber almost non stop
Bummer to hear the trucking community isn't sounding so helpful driver to driver. Does anyone use HAM much? Is accessing others easy by this route?
Directly across the antenna of the stereo. Mounted driver side 12"+ frtom the A pillar on a mounting tab that mounts to the inner fender.
Hi all, I am just a regular (non trucker) on the road. I just got a CB, but I wanted to reach out to you all and ask what communication devices...
its a jeep cherokee. with the recommendations of a local CB supplier, I opted to go with a Hustler FG-27 fixed mount antenna. It seems ok, not to...
so i might go for a wilson 1000 antenna just for a little more range. Now i know tuning will be giving me best performance so i have two...
sorry for the newb ?s but im kinda surprised we couldn't hear one another that close when normal 2 way radios would have worked, why is that? we...
hey all, i recently got a midland 75-822, i could hardly hear my buddy a car length away that had a hand held cobra., i was plug into the 12v,...
