How can I get better reception on my CB radio?

As you know the gp being the bigggest issue for these plastic trucks that are company owned..

 

I get your point and agree some but in my eyes they just make more room in your pocket for lint...
Cheap meters and the cheap coax can also lead you down a never ending trail of spending $ on an issue that doesnt exsist,just as easy as factory meter..

Personally i set mine up as best i cant,set swr protect and voltage protections on my radio..Compare with analyzer and call it a day..I pay attention to the system as well during rain,slush of winter and listen..

 

Craig, while you are right, you are using the wrong term, don't be mad at me for pointing this out.

A ground plane only exists in a fixed location - base - antenna system.

What you are talking about is an RF ground, it takes two parts to make it work right.

 

Naw not mad..Dont know any other way to put it..

 

The problem with most of those antenna "experts" it's that they think it is perfectly acceptable for you to have a 20Ω load with 30Ω of impedance transformation to trick your radio into seeing a perfect SWR, and if they can't hear you from a great distance, they are the ones that tell you that you need to put more fire in the wire, when a resonant 50Ω antenna would be capable of hearing weaker signals from a greater distance.
Unfortunately, they can't seem to wrap their brains around that concept.

 

It’s Chris’s shop that does it. You member him, don’t ya ? He “was” your guy to go to when you lived out here……

 

He was never my preferred choice for anything. People I know recommended his work from a repair perspective. None of those radios performed very well, although they did function to a lesser degree than they did from the factory.

 

Sux to go backwards..