Alabama thread!

I'd try a better antenna. I always had high swrs using them. The best I was under a 1.4 running a 225 watt linear was a Wilson antenna. K40 antennas are also a good one to use. Good antenna and good coax. Not to mention a trustworthy swr meter.

 

I'm pretty sure my radio is broken honestly, I think I fried my internals with the high swr

 

Finals might be shot.

Yeah that sucks. Have you tried a dummy load with swr meter?

 

Dummy load? I've tested it on 1 and 40 and on 1 it was 1.8 and 40 it is 2 now. Finally got around to making grounding better, ran a wire to the frame

 

Cheap piece of equipment to help troubleshoot radio swr readings etc.

 

Haven't tried it

 

Speaking of which, I need to tune my radio. Who has an SWR / tuning experience?

 

Well I do now lol, so does @stronghammer and @TacoAlaMode

 

@jmaack do you still have the lean?

 

And I just ordered a new cb

 

Were you transmitting with it untuned, or just listening?

 

Transmitting

 

Ah, there is your problem.

 

And it wasn't just untuned it had no ground

 

No ground for antenna?

Everything I've read on mine said the antenna was fine without being tuned. Granted mine is mounted to the hood.

 

It was mounted in a plastic bed

 

Gotcha.

 

Yeah. Been meaning to fix it just busy with 4th life selling house pleasing wife and generally just not wanting to work on a truck.

Planning on finishing g in. Week or so though..
Haha

 

Hasn't left garage since put front on. Don't know when I'll finish took wheels to parents basement leafs are there it feels like a wereck every day.

 

#lean

Now I bought another new Galaxy radio about to buy a 2 meter. Gonna be busy this fall.