Recent content by biz

Id much rather have a 1600V, not the sweet sixteen. but for the right price i might settle for it.

wow i fixed it. somehow in my internet explorer setting it was set to never refresh web pages every time i visit. real weird. I dont remember ever messing with it. oh well. Its fine now and i can see my posts now without having to get on my blackberry.

A few months back I manually deleted everything in my temporary internet folder and it seems to have effected browsing this forum. I'm using internet explorer.

and now i can see your reply after my post posted... ghey.

this forum is so weird for me.... i see that you replied.... but when i click on the thread I only see my post. When I looked at this post on my blackberry i could see your reply. I tried logging out and it didnt help.

toss me a PM. thx.

but i can post everywhere else... whats wrong?

theres a cb shop about 40 minutes away from here.... i think monday i will take a ride and see what they say.

yea i kept the mic gain all the way down.... the power on the other hand.... as i go up the swr goes up... when the power is all the way down... i have very low swr reading.. 1.0 on the radio and on the external meter... as i turn it up though.. the swr starts going up. i have sent...

the built in swr meter on the radio showed me 1.5-1.6 across the board, that was while i had the external meter in-line with a 2 foot jumper. when i removed the external meter and connected the antenna directly to the radio, the built in swr meter jumped up to 2.0 ish all across. i didnt...

i triple checked my numbers before i started trimming.... i started the whip somewhere half-way and my initial numbers told me i was long... so i started lowering... and the swr went down. thats when i started trimming and it was getting better and better.. my tri-mag mount came with 17...

no.... in fact i saw someone drive by with a predator on their truck and i was tempted to flag em down... is cutting 6 inches off a 5 foot whip out of the ordinary? I really didnt want to trim it at all if i didnt have to but they swr was getting better and better every inch i trimmed so...

what i dont get is why the swr jumped up a lil over 2 when i went direct to the antenna...

i just went out and double checked to be sure.... you had me second guessing myself.

i was on 11 meter.