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Dmans that’s interesting. I’ll put my president richard in-line and recheck it in awhile. It puts out 50 watts on a variable knob. This problem I just complained about a few minutes ago went away mysteriously. I just rechecked everything and they are low again even with my amplifier turned off...

Now here’s what’s weird. With my Texas Star 500V turned off, my swr is sky high. Like a little over 3 on channel 40. And 1.2 on channel 1. Because I keep my amp in-line but only use it when skip rolls. But when I turn it on, they drop. To 1.5 on channel 40 and 1.2 on channel 1. At this point...

Great advice, thanks mike

No. I actually have this big MFJ 868B meter, and when I try to calibrate it to check my SWR the needle doesn’t even swing high enough to the set position. That’s what’s strange about that meter. Now if I power up my little 100 watt kicker, then it swings high enough to calibrate. It goes to...

What should I do? Taking it back down,,,, at least right now,,,, is out of the question. It takes about 8 people and I can’t muster that many people right now.

When I put my Maco v58 up I tried tuning it on the ground to the best of my ability, got it 1.1 on 1 but it was 1.7 on 40. No matter what I did I couldn’t seem to get it to drop any further. Everything I did made it worse. Now it’s 60 feet up, it has pretty much stayed the same. Is this too...

I’m glad you posted this. I was one of those eager followers who were waiting for the results. It was in my mind also, to see if the hole could be enlarged. Guess that answers that. I thought you would have posted it under the old thread that I was following, I’m fortunate that I looked and saw...

Instead of making another post, I’ll try and resurrect this one to save from spamming. I installed an rm Italy stinger board today in a bearcat 880. It was a straightforward install. Swings to almost 100 watts when powered on. I put the radio all back together after I verified it walked and...

Oh joy. Eagerly waiting

I reread this entire thread and this was a eureka moment for me. The way you worded it I understand better now

Ok I’m gonna dig this back out this evening and try again. This radio is not really worth me sending out to have somebody else do it. I don’t have to admit that I’m very much an amateur at this I drive a truck for a living not work on electronics but I’m trying to learn. I sure that shows in...

Thanks for that, I actually did look on CB tricks. I just can’t make sense of it I don’t have the skills to figure out which wires on the actual radio

i was gifted this radio without a mic plug. The person I got it from says the plug he put in there is good, but he took it apart a long time ago and said he couldn’t figure out how to get it wired back together and guess what, neither can I. After messing with this all morning I have gotten...

Well the one along time ago it was one of those small ones to get from the truckstop, probably about 6 W. The one I’m using now is a 60 amp that I used to power my Texas star

Nomadradio said “Mobile radios only have this problem when running indoors from a DC power supply. “ What makes the indoor dc power supply any different to make it a problem verses being in a vehicle? I hope you can see my question. The way I read his post, there is something leading me to...

Well the first cobra that I’ve burned up the power supply on didn’t have any power running to it I didn’t have a stinger board connected to it. It just didn’t like being hooked up in the house

I’m curious as to why this happens? I had a new cobra 29 that smoked a power supply when I tried using it as a base. The cobra 29 in this conversation I’m using now the power supply started getting hot and smoking but I shut it down quick enough. What significance does having it on a power...

It’s a 30 amp

So that must be the reason why my power supply was cobra heated up the other day when I was turning the radio up with the stinger board inside the house. Why is that? What significance does the DC power have to do with heating up a mobile radio ? I have already replaced the power supply in...

That’s about what the radio dead keys at