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good graces of the singular source of my love life are definitely important...... I'll work it out eventually.... but on the side, I did more playing around with my SWR meter after work and tested through the range of channels. MY SWR is 1.1 to 1 on channel 1, 1.3 to 1 on channel 20, and 1.5...

LOL I understand the logistics of physically getting it higher, the part I am having trouble with is how to do it without ticking the wife off. I really want it on the roof of the house since, my garage is one story and my house is two, two stories with a 10-15 foot mast would be awesome.

OK hooked up SWR meter, ran without the amp hooked up. SWR reading was 1.3 to 1. From what I have read that's not bad. so I did a mic check and first reply was that my modulation blew chunks, turned up the output on my mic and cleared it right up. first broadcast/reply was from about 7-10 miles...

I have now. I got tired of waiting 24 hours for my replies to go up, so I skipped out of that forum and came over here. this one seems a little more active on the CB side the other one has so many subforums you can't find anything. any how off to the garage to check out the SWR meter and...

I'm pretty sure I don't have a clue what you are referring to in this post. Me? some one else? I don't get it.

thanks for the info guys. I just picked up a "CB/High-Frequency Ham Power SWR Meter Model: 21-534" and a brand new length of coax since it was pretty cheap. less risk to the radio that way too. both from radio shack. found out they have a decent selection of electronic soldering supplies too...

where would be the best place do dig up stats on ohm ratings for all my devices (the radio, coax and antenna)?

also arent amps or boosters illeagle? unless licensed? if so I probably shouldn't run the silver streak at all right? untill I get my ham license.

thanks, I will. what does 73S de JW mean? I still don't understand that part of the post.

too much what? it only has a couple swuitches on/off lo/high and one other I cant think of off the top of my head, no knobs to adjust anything.

all that helps A boatload. I will probably install the "safety" ground on the antenna just because I value my garage and the motorcycles and thousands of dollars worth or tools inside it, makes me nervous having a lightening rod attached to the side of my shop. might as well have it since I...

found the parts I need to splice my cable 2 pl259's and a pl258. that should be straight forward.

Also, when I was googling around for info about setting up my antenna I heard something about a recommended length of coax for a given antenna, where do I find that, if its true? I can't seem to google it up. nor an equation to figure out optimal length for an antenna.

First off, hello. I am new to the world of cbs, totally new. I had a bunch of gear given to me. A whole bunch, I wont list it all just the stuff I intent to use in my setup, there is also a ham radio (states license requirements right on the case, and bandwidth? presets, that I may use later...