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New antenna, I cut off 2" from the top trying to get swr down, I am plan to to get a tech ham license so I would be plum swell at 28,300 ssb. I have a cheap 30 year old swr meter that reads 10-100 watts that may not be right,I had an old Motorola cb that has Built in meter that shows...

Antenna is hose clamped to deck 4x4 at 8 ft high so I could work the rings,I tried it at 18 ft but swr was still high,the swr is lower without to ground plain kit.i read some were to mount the antenna on plastic so the mast isn't acting like antenna also . My wife doesn't like that duck taped...

I have been trying to get the swr below 1.8 on my :blush::blush: install on the side of my deck ,I made a choke balun out of about 20 wraps of my to long rg8 coax . But the antenna is super low at 28,300--28,500 swr there is 1.1 It about 8 ft high so I could play with the rings I tried...

Same problem on new 2970-n2 I had this problem on a new radio out of the box that was working when sent out from Bells cb, they sent me a replacement radio, great service.