I believe your right and that is what I thought when I was working with that Radio Shack crap. I can't believe they would even peddle that stuff....
Just to let you all know I went back to my old Scosche antenna with the 10' coax shoved thru the passenger door and got a SWR of 1-1.1 on channel...
Sorry my first post may have been miss leading. I did not splice two pieces of coax together because I know that is asking for trouble. The...
Thanks for the input and I will do some checking with my multimeter but I don't believe I can remove the spring because it is part of the mounting...
I recently rewired a mobile antenna so I could reroute the wire without adding to it with a splice. I added about 5' to the coax to get it to...
I would tend to agree with you that your antenna and a low SWR is always my first priority. No sense in having the power if your losing it thru...
I bought a homeowner grade Watt meter to test my 5 mobile CB radios and 3 Base station radios just to see how may watts they were putting out....
That is a interesting question and a lot of that depends on you as a person and where you want to go with a CB. Men say women like to talk but...
There is tolerances in all manufacturing processes and it is known that radio manufactures have to comply with FCC regulations so they have to...
My Uniden 980 SSB acts the same way. I can only adjust the local RF gain. I guess the distant RF is a constant factor. I think the 980 needs a...
Just tried a new Astatic Road Devil power mic. on my 1999 Cobra 29 NW ST this morning and got a good radio check report on it. Everything is still...
