Cascadia Antenna Solutions

Hard drive suggested to get rid of that mount and get a 27" shaft on my predator...Tryin to understand why though..
Lowering the coil hurts performance does it not

 

The BR 29 has a16 in. shaft which gets the 2 in. flat coils high enough to clear the glass and fiberglass. I also used one of those coil mounting springs which gains appx 4 more inches of height.
Also, it needs to be slanted forward about 45 degrees.

 

Here is everything (I can think of) I think. All in one place.

Cascadia 2015
This set up solved my CB problem. I'M now getting swr's of .25 :1 on channels 1 through 40 consistently.
I'm using Cobra 29LX peaked and tuned. Browning BR29 Antenna on a 2 bolt mirror mount polished not coated for a solid ground. 18 ft. Heavy duty coax cable. Lift hood and run coax thru the fire wall at the passenger side floor. There is a rubber plug that pops out. Cut an x in the center of the plug. Run coax thru that.
The BR 29 has a16 in. shaft which gets the 2 in. flat coils high enough to clear the glass and fiberglass. I also used one of those coil mounting springs which gains appx 4 more inches of height.
Also, it needs to be slanted forward about 45 degrees.
I'M getting swr's of .25:1 on channels 1 through 40 consistently. My only check on range put it at about 5 miles.
Using Road King 54 Telex mic.

 

All of that for 5 miles. You should get more than that.

 

That's my first check. I'm just happy to have my swr's below 2.25 with only 1 mile. Maybe I can save someone with a 2015 Cascadia the trouble I went through. I don't know if you saw that my swr's are no .25 all channels. I don't see that anywhere here.

 

Swr cannot go to .25..swr is not really important anyways..

 

Ok so in totally freaked out here...Im in an open area and did some tweeking with my set up..
With my coax my pics will show the results,with some coax from hard drive everything is sky rocket high..So ticked off and lost as to figureing this ant stuff out..

 

Kinda on the ant learning fast track..My cancer is back for the 3rd time and ill not be truckin much past a yr from now..
Wanna get this figured out before usps goes good on my damage claim so i can get my fine tuned 955..

 

If swr's is over 3 I get a warning. Can't that do damage to your radio? Why is that not important?

All I know is what I'm reading on the meter. I hope it helps.

 

I just covered the shaft and coil on my coil antenna, but for the 102" I covered the whole 102"