Are you getting a bad SWR or a favorable one? If it is OK; then go with it - then check it again when the weather is dry. If it is bad - don't necessarily blame the weather on the poor SWR...say what???????
WX is not a reason for (major) VSWR changes.
are we supposed to have rainy day antennas,... dry day antennas,.... daytime antennas,... night time antennas,..... well, you get the idea.
theres something else wrong
coax-seal is your friend
To answer robb's question I asked in another thread that Ive been assigned a new truck at work 2005 379 pete and Im trying to figure this out Ive never had such a hard time with a truck.Truck is noisy through radio when I say noisy I mean sounding like a helicopter through radio.I here the noise in the backround of incoming signals but it is intermittent.Ive tried just about everything new coax,antennaS,stud,blah blah blah.Truck has afactory stero with amp that sits behind p/s seat,roadwatch(shows road and air temp)that is mounted on d/s mirror brkt which by the way goes nuts when i key up,and the regular electrics that peterbilt has.I would prefer to run one antenna on d/s which I have done in all my other installs with good luck but ....When the coax was in the overhead on the d/s the noise seemed to be worse.So after taking someones advice for giggles I tried a francis antenna mounted on p/s along with all my coax on the p/s and seemed to be ALOT better.So with that being said the only thing I could think of was maybe the coil section of the antenna being higher up was making a difference and in turn I purchased a top-loaded antenna (which was why I asked about the rain thing)in hopes of getting my magnum radio to work in this truck and shelfing my wilsonT5000 for another day.Sorry for the long post just wanted to vent I guess I really like my radios.
I can get god swr's with my wilson(1.3 flat across) and francis (1.3-1.7).Are u talking a noise filter?I unhooked my antenna while hearing the noise and it went away was told if it was entering through radio noise would still exist?Just seems a shame I cant run my wilson trucker Ive had better results with them over any fiberglass stick.
"WX is not a reason for (major) VSWR changes. "
say it aint so !!!!!
but folks say and suggest things in the CB world all the time .
i even saw a post once where a guy was asking why his swr jumped from 1.3 or less to over 2.0 and someone suggest strong skip was driving them up .
im with cap'n kilo on this one .