You are getting old and forgetful before your time, Charlie!!! Old-timers setting in! LOL Must be mileage, rather than time!

 

I agree with you there. A short path, but I took the long way around, lol

 

lol sorry ive been working and sleeping. but im working with a set of wilson antennas. and i have 3 radios a radioshack, a realistic and a midland. and bud ill let u know when i can come up.

 

I just got a Wilson 1000 for my Cobra 29LX LE. Need to put it on, I have a 41" Radio Shack antenna at max height and my transmitting SWR goes too high on the lower channels...

I really don't know much about CBs. Can't wait to learn though.

 

What is SWR at Channel 20 ?

 

Tune for Ch 20 (with a 40 ch radio) and it'll be the best it can be. Or, tune it to the channel you use the most and live with whatever is at all the others. How old is that RS antenna? If i can't be tuned, the RS dealer SHOULD replace it.

 

The antenna is probably six months old or so.

I tuned on 1, 20, and 40. I'm at the work hotel right now, so I can't check anything out. But SWR is below 1 on channel 20, slightly higher on channels 1 and 40. But when I transmit on the first ten channels or so, the SWR shoots up above 2 and the radio starts flashing "CB Antenna Warning."

I haven't been able to get a radio check from anyone...so I'm not even sure if everything is working.

 

check your coax, and make sure it is not pinched, and shorting out, check also that the nylon washer is between the antenna, and the mount. sounds like a ground problem to me

 

The way you are checking SWR sounds like you are doing it wrong to me.....how can the SWR be below 1 to 1? Impossible.... and even IF it was 1 to 1, you HAVE to check it in transmit mode.... what you said doesn't make sense.

 

I'm sorry, I meant 1.5. That's the first tick on the built-in digital SWR meter. Doesn't give me an exact reading, but it's low between 1 and 1.5.

Seems to be okay tonight, but low channels still spike over 2 when I transmit at times.

 

2 isn't too bad..... again, it depends on lots of things....location of antenna, grounds and a good ground plane (which is really ant. location). And I'd tune it for the most used channel.

 

You can't use the meter on the radio to set the srw's on the antenna, only the radio. To set the antennas, you need a srw meeter IN THE COAX TO THE ANTENNA.

 

You can if the radio has an SWR meter as an option. Many did.

 

al of my cobras do, and a few of the unidens, but you really need to set the antennas first, then fine tune it with the radio.

 

Right - you use the SWR meter in the radio to tune the antenna. It tells you if you need to make the antenna longer or shorter......