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I’ve been looking for an explanation all in one place of the differences between certain CB features that seem similar. I’ve had to hop around looking each one up individually. Two categories in particular are confusing, noise control functions and squelch vs RF gain. The noise control features...

I read it. Thats makes a lot of sense. But the biggest battle they will have to fight now will not be public reception, it’ll be “public perception.” I think in peoples’ minds they see AM as boring and they won’t listen to it. It would take a lot of work to turn that tide.

Well, right now I’m just exploring options. This is a 2023 Nissan Frontier and it has the utili-track on two sides and the front wall of the truck bed. It is just below the top of the bed rails. It works like uni-strut and is made to use Nissan’s proprietary clamp on tie downs but I can also buy...

A Firestik has the coil at the top. So do you think a 4’ Firestik will work mounted directly behind the cab, in the center? I believe 2’ of it including the coil would be above the roofline.

I read somewhere on here where someone had issues tuning the SWR on their mobile antenna because it was mounted behind the cab and they were getting reflection from the cab. Makes sense to me. Then I read on Right Channel Radios website that I can mount an antenna on a tool box behind the cab...

No, I don’t need to keep it. This question is just for my general knowledge. No current radio project going on. I just wanted to understand how it works.

It seems to me that tuning an antenna is just a function of cutting it to length to match the frequency desired, and generally the higher the frequency the shorter the antenna is. So based on that, I’d like to ask: can ANY and ALL 2m/70cm band antennas be shortened to perform well with GMRS on...

Wow. I don’t even have a radio yet and I’m already envisioning a half wave dipole up in the attic and connected to a radio in one of our spare rooms here for talking skip. Then a second radio connected to a vertical antenna for local chatter. LOL!

Thank you for the diagrams. This one in particular interests me a lot. I’ve read about dipole antennas some but I’m unclear when you would want to use this over a vertical antenna. Maybe just for convenience of size? I could see this up on the roof of a house and keeping it sort of low profile...

Thanks for so many answers so fast! So this confirms that I understood it correctly. I was getting the sense that the antenna length and frequency go hand in hand and once SWR is set then the antenna is good for that frequency regardless of the radio, so long as its the same kind of radio (set...

Hello! New guy here. Had a couple of CB’s back in the 90’s but not for very long. Looking to get back into it again but this time I want to learn the ins and outs of it instead of just connect a radio to an antenna and set SWR and then just talk. So I’ve been reading and watching videos a lot...