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Offline Kral4me

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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2008, 03:06:11 AM »
*Blinks* wow.

Now I know why I just bat my eyelashes at Scott and say "baby my CB isn't working...can you fix it pluuueeeze?"

LOL  ;)
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2008, 05:43:26 AM »
comon now you was a wire rate that should be easy to understand

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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2008, 12:20:47 PM »
kool, anyone have a good meter?
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2008, 01:42:31 PM »
ayone wanna split up the cost of a meter for club use? I'll pitch $20 if someone who likes elctronics will help me tune mine .
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2008, 10:39:00 PM »
Quote from: rocket on February 19, 2008, 12:20:47 PM
kool, anyone have a good meter?

nope sorry
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2008, 02:35:44 AM »
Quote from: mallcrawl on February 19, 2008, 01:42:31 PM
ayone wanna split up the cost of a meter for club use? I'll pitch $20 if someone who likes elctronics will help me tune mine .

I would if i had problems.  for trail rides and convoys, i think mine is ok.
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2008, 04:04:18 AM »
ditto, new antenna is cheaper
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2008, 03:35:11 PM »
I found this on EBAY for $19.99... It is an in-line tuner that goes between the antenna and the CB

Paradynamics PDC30 MATCHER SWR TUNER CB RADIO ANTENNAS
Item number: 140207651764

Hope this helps
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Offline mallcrawl

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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2008, 04:50:23 PM »
here is an even more in depth explanation for those intereseted
http://www.firestik.com/Tech_Docs/Setting_SWR.htm

tuning is easy enough just kinda time consuming but this is the cheapest meter I can find
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2036239 and I'm not sure if I would trust it
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2008, 04:53:42 PM »
cool
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2008, 05:09:56 PM »
Quote from: Jeeper on February 20, 2008, 03:35:11 PM
I found this on EBAY for $19.99... It is an in-line tuner that goes between the antenna and the CB

Paradynamics PDC30 MATCHER SWR TUNER CB RADIO ANTENNAS
Item number: 140207651764

Hope this helps

This really isn't what they are looking for.  It needs to be "permanently" installed.
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2008, 05:11:18 PM »
ohh and on jeep not having a decent roof to make a ground plane we will be lucky to see swr's under 3
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #27 on: February 20, 2008, 05:21:55 PM »
i never thougt of that sort of thing.
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2008, 05:22:38 PM »
i know, i know,

it's a jeep thing........
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Re: new CB and antenna
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2008, 05:49:53 PM »
There are plenty of places on Jeeps that offer a good ground plane.  It may not be as omni-directional as possible, but there is plenty of metal to mount the antenna to.

Wranglers have the stopper for the spare tire on the right side, there is a company that makes a mount that goes in it.

Hood, bumpers, fenders.
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