Colorado B.S. Thread

is there a spring? try taking it out if so. people tend to forget that the spring adds to the overall height of an antenna

 

No spring. It's a pretty flexible whip.

 

Any bets on distance without a repeater?

 

I'm not sure that's it either. @ashrr213 took his fender down to bare metal where we grounded it.

 

Pics of set up will help troubleshooting.

 

We scraped it, but I'll send you some pics tonight. @Littles maybe how the mount is set up.

 

@Ag63i2 sounds like you need to listen to this too

 

I didn't get any pics with our creative mount job unfortunately. just some of the wiring.

Not sure if this could be part of it...I know you're not supposed to coil excess wire, but we did make a nice figure 8 with a good 8 or 9 feet of excess coax under the seat.

 

What antenna was it?

 

It was a wilson 4ft whip...don't know the model number, but the tip looked like the one here:

$40 Wilson 305-4FD Silver Load Series 4 Foot CB Antenna Flex Whip

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005ALD33K

Now that I think about it could be a grounding issue...there was another lead off the bottom of the antenna that the instructions said not to attach at first... we never tried attaching that and checking the readings

 

I was actually just looking at these! Good to hear from someone who's used one. Home Depot advertises some 3in foam that I'm gonna check out, but I'm leaning towards just biting the bullet and getting one of these. Thanks for the advice!

 

I'll get some pics for you all of the mount and ground when I get home.

 

I need to pull out my CB and reconfigure it. I stashed it when someone stole my antenna while I was in Houston

 

Never used a bidet before? It's awkward the first time, and I don't prefer to use them as opposed to TP but damn they are refreshing on the backside

 

Looking for a set of spidertrax 1.25

 

did you check your work bench... pretty sure Atlantis is in there somewhere... ;-)

 

@Ice Horse and Sam.



This was 2 yrs ago.

 

@InSainFab

 

how many toytec logos AND GO!!