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Yea it’s a pain in the butt. I’ve got the N2 in my house and always just turn off the power supply and don’t use the power knob on the radio so it should never have an issue. I’ve heard of people rigging up a toggle switch for power and still bae the original switch for just the volume. Idk but...

The red switch basically does nothing, mine is used for a hi cut filter.The rf power knob does everything you need as far as dead key the red switch was pointless. I bought one of these about 6 months ago and it’s been in a 2020 Peterbilt we don’t put 10,000 miles a year on and probably has less...

I sledge hammered down an 8ft copper ground rod and ran a copper wire to the antenna mast. The steel mast itself is also drove into the ground a foot or so , then right before the coax goes into the house I’ve got a lightning surge protector with a copper wire going to another copper ground rod...

Well the imax 2000 is up ended up with a 1.4 swr all the way from channel 1 to 40 on 11 meters with that little 12” optimizer in there. I can already tell the reception is quieter , bad part about that is I can hear that idiot on channel 19 too clear now lol. I’m about to take a ride and see how...

I went ahead and bought a Solarcon imax2000 . It says 24’, it comes with the 12” piece to get it back where it needs to be for 11 meters. Height was apparently my main issue we were talking this morning as I was coming to work headed south and it was the same as when I went north last night. I’m...

Since I raised it I’m probably gonna end up moving it to the end of the house so I can get a strap across it at the highest point possible at the peak of the roof. Right now it’s middle of the back of the house so the straps are down low at the bottom of the roof and I can tell if a big wind...

I wondered about that and the thing about the 1/4 wave, I’ve got a 102” whip I stick on my truck in the yard sometimes and it always talks and receives a little better than what’s on it normally and I’ve always thought it was a 1/4 wave. So I raised this base antenna up another 4 feet still have...

I’ve got a piece of steel pipe stuck in the bottom of the antenna and the coax runs down through it, it’s about 5 ft long then the steel mast is attached to that pipe with about 5 clamps so it is metal to metal. Should I have used a piece of electrical conduit pipe into the base of the antenna...

Yes in the first post I said steel rca antenna mast. To the base of the antenna where the coax screws on it’s about 23 feet to the ground.

Mines probably about 23’ to where the coax screws on , an 18ft coax is at least 5 feet above the ground where it comes down the mast.

Well what’s a good 5/8 wave 11 meter antenna to get? I saw a Sirio GPE 27 that says it’s 5/8 and it’s only about $95. Anybody have any experience with those? If it would get out about 20 miles just for local talking is all I really care about.

It’s actually 2 18’ Wilson mini 8s so 36ft and they’re both a week old same as the antenna and mast. Best I can figure it’s about 32-33’ to the tip top of the antenna. Strange that the same radio in my truck with a Hustler hq27 55” antenna sitting in my driveway would talk at least 16 miles...

I guess this is the right place to post this question. I recently bought a Sirio M-400 and got it put up, the mast is around 18’ and it’s strapped to the side of my house, idk the exact overall height but it’s well above the peak of the roof. I’ve got a Stryker 955 hooked to it on 14.8 volts...

In my last post where I said I just hooked the meter to my work truck I was saying I hooked an external swr meter to it. I’m not tuning my antenna now that’s done and over. I just read an article on one of these cb shops website about antenna tuning and they said set the radios power to low that...

Idk I had read on some website that you should set the power to low when your tuning an antenna and I was always doing it with it set as high as it would go thinking if I set it that way it would always be right no matter what power setting. I just hooked the meter to my work truck , the Ford...