4:13 am
May 4, 2004
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I know that Cal4Wheel and others require that your cb antenna length be no longer than about 4 feet. Has anyone heard about any restrictions with how high above your vehicle the antenna can be?
I just put in a new cb and had to relocate my antenna to get good SWR measurements. I've now got a 4' tall antenna mounted to the top of my trail rack. It sticks up about 3.5' above my Jeep. It looks a little tall, but it gets 1.3 on the SWR on every channel.
4:43 am
February 5, 2003
Offline I think you'll be fine.
I worked trek staging for 4 years and we would only take issue with metal antennas that could fly all over the place. We had a few show up with 9 foot whip antennas that we made duct tape to the roll cage or remove entirely. fiberglass antenna's were not a problem no matter how high they were, and even 5 footers were overlooked.
Is it on a spring mount? Up that high it might get torn off in the trees if its not.
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5:00 am
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline "FAM" wrote: I know that Cal4Wheel and others require that your cb antenna length be no longer than about 4 feet. Has anyone heard about any restrictions with how high above your vehicle the antenna can be?
I just put in a new cb and had to relocate my antenna to get good SWR measurements. I've now got a 4' tall antenna mounted to the top of my trail rack. It sticks up about 3.5' above my Jeep. It looks a little tall, but it gets 1.3 on the SWR on every channel.
Thread semi-hijack. I tried to tune my CB, but have no clue what I'm doing-even after reading the directions. Could I run by some time and get a check up?
5:02 am
February 5, 2003
Offline I might have an SWR meter. I'll go check. back in 5 mins
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5:03 am
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April 2, 2003
Offline "Dan-H" wrote: I might have an SWR meter. I'll go check. back in 5 mins
George lent me his and its in my garage. Still no clue... 
5:06 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline If it works...don't mes with it 
I used to wheel a lot. . .
5:07 am
February 5, 2003
Offline I can go put an antenna on my jeep and try to talk to you.
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5:08 am
February 5, 2003
Offline "Dan-H" wrote: I can go put an antenna on my jeep and try to talk to you.
and I did find my meter, but I couldn't find the patch cable
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5:42 am
February 5, 2003
Offline "BKGM Jeepers" wrote: [quote="Dan-H"]I might have an SWR meter. I'll go check. back in 5 mins
George lent me his and its in my garage. Still no clue...
I can show you how, but I'm heading to bed. I'll be around tomorrow evening if you still need some help.
Does the meter have instructions?
If its like mine you plug it in inline. Flip the switch to fwd, key the mike adjust a knob to get the max power then flip the switch to rev and read the SWR.
check on 1, 20 and 40.
If high on 1, lower on 20 and lower still on 40 the antenna needs to be lenghened slightly with the tuning screw.
If high on 40, lower on 20 and lowest on 1, try shortening antenna by screwing in the tuning screw slightly.
Make small changes.
- Dan
caveat: this is from memory and I haven't done this in 10 years and can't find the instructions and haven't read the instructions in probably 25 years so I might have this mixed up.
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5:46 am
February 5, 2003
Offline OK, last one. I think my instructions are pretty close but here is a writeup.
http://www.offroaders.com/info/tech-cor ... ng/swr.htm
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7:29 am
July 15, 2005
Offline I have never tuned a CB antenna...Never had a problem and I get all the distance and clarity of a tuned antenna...
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1:25 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "BKGM Jeepers" wrote: Thread semi-hijack. I tried to tune my CB, but have no clue what I'm doing-even after reading the directions. Could I run by some time and get a check up?
If you'd like to come by Saturday we could check it out.
1:28 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "Dan-H" wrote: Is it on a spring mount? Up that high it might get torn off in the trees if its not.
No spring, but it's a Wilson Flex antenna. Its bendable like a fishing rod. I think it'll be ok, but I've got it on a quick disconnect so I can remove it if needed.
1:30 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "RobD" wrote: I have never tuned a CB antenna...Never had a problem and I get all the distance and clarity of a tuned antenna...
Sometimes you get lucky. Once I got this antenna into a good location the tuning was great and I didn't have to make any adjustments.
5:00 pm
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline "FAM" wrote: [quote="BKGM Jeepers"]Thread semi-hijack. I tried to tune my CB, but have no clue what I'm doing-even after reading the directions. Could I run by some time and get a check up?
If you'd like to come by Saturday we could check it out.
Can I get a raincheck? I'm out of town.
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