102" whip on 2020+ freightliner cascadia

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  1. Powder Joints

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    3:1 looks like something in the cable, check make sure the mount is not shorted to ground, make sure your connectors are properly soldered, also make sure the ground for the mount is a good solid ground. If you have too much of it running to close to metal pieces (such as body parts) it can raise your SWR/.
     
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  3. dltdamien

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    Yes
     
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    I have a bunch of coax shoved in the dash maybe that's the problem. Gonna run the multimeter tomorrow and see if I can find the problem maybe run a shorter coax so I don't have so much extra cord.
     
  5. dltdamien

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    So fair warning I'm not good with electrical. Tested the mount, ground straps and coax. Mount and ground read 66 ohms don't know if that's good or bad. Disconnected coax from radio and tested at 0 ohms. Does that mean the coax is bad? Let me know your thoughts as at this point I have little knowledge of what I'm actually doing lol.
     
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  7. Night Stalker10

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    The ohm readings depends on the ohm meter. If it's a digital meter, touch the 2 probes together and see what the reading is. Sometimes the meter will show zero, other meters may show around 3 or 5. This gives you a base number to go by. Then check the ground straps to the antenna mount. You should get basically the same reading as touching the probes together. If the reading is a lot higher than the base reading, then you need to address that issue.
     
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    So if meter reads 0 then when I test strap and mount it should read 0?
     
  9. Night Stalker10

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    Yes, or very close to it. If the ohm reading is high, then there's not a good ground connection to the metal. That could be due to paint or corrosion, etc
     
  10. dltdamien

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    Okay tested the mount and straps correctly this time and all reading 0.00 same as multimeter.
     
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    Tuning the nail does nothing, still reads 3 on 1 and 20 and 3 and a quarter on 40. To my untrained eye grounding looks good. Possibly bad coax?
     
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