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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.

is the jumper length the problem? i ohmed the jumper also and it checked out.

ok so heres the deal... I lowered the output power so my swr meter would be readable and i determined that my antenna was tall... so I started trimming untill my numbers were closer together and now the best i can get it to is this point.... i had to hack off a total of 6 inches. I...

the tri-mag mount had the coax and the connector already on there when it came... seemed like i was recieving ok.... you said "You don't have your finger on the Signal Strength antenna stud, or have the antenna mounted when you do these tests, do you?" how would you test swr without it...

its all new equipment.... readings on all channels are in the red.... the needle is pinned.

Im running an Galaxy 95T2 with a predator 10k on a tri-mag mount on the roof of my F-350. im measuring with a radio shack swr meter. after calibrating im getting a real high reading on the swr meter..... well in the red. but i know this radio has a built in swr circuit and swr meter...