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I am curious how you have it attached to the tree. I have a couple BIG Douglas fir trees I have been thinking about using. Just not sure how to go about it.

Sometimes people mount antennas like that and although performance suffers, it doesn't matter much to them as they are only talking car to car (or jeep to jeep) at close proximity to each other. Not trying to "really get out" as they say. They do not have big demands on communications and don't...

That could be it. It could be giving you misleading readings that never get better as you trim so you keep trimming. At the point when you have trimmed a little and don't see any change in SWR it is time to stop and look at things to figure out why things are not working as they should. I agree...

There is some discussion about that antenna and trimming it here, a couple posts down. https://www.rubiconownersforum.com/forums/22-tj-communications-electronics/26239-everhardt-cb-antennas.html

6 inches would seem to be a lot to trim off from my experiences with CB antennas used on CB. What you want is an acceptable SWR curve when measured throughout the 40 channels.Not high at one end and low at the other. Sometimes in some settings it is not possible to get the SWR really low in the...

Even the most state of the art ham rig only does it that way. When you turn on RIT and /or Delta Transmit the main display stays the same and an additional display pops up that show how far off the main display that you are tuning. For myself it would be strange for it to work any other way. I...

Somehow I missed that post....oops!:confused:

He isn't an sk yet! He has been on QRZ.com as always in the last couple days. From QRZ.com just minutes ago; K0BG was last seen: Today at 11:06 AM

In that case you do what you can with what you have or, budget constraints. I don't think many people worry much about powering down an export radio to use on CB. Probably a big reason to get an export is to have the built in extra power that they will use on CB! Not legal to run high power but...

Okay I get what you are trying to do now. More portable on 10 meters than mobile. I still don't find it worth the effort for 10 meters but if I were going that route I would get an Antron A-99 or similar antenna and figure out an easy way of putting it up and down with a pole lashed to some part...

Also, everything you'd likely EVER need to know about operating mobile is covered here; https://k0bg.com/

I didn't real all the posts so may have missed something but... My thoughts are that 10 meter mobile is quite a waste of time these days. 10 meters is mostly crickets other than during a contest. CB radio is certainly much more useful. 40 meters is always good when mobile (or otherwise) but not...

What amplifier? What band? A little info would certainly help!! An Ameritron Al-811 on 80? Not uncommon. Just need more padding capacitor.

A Yagi, say a 3 element Yagi, Is going to be a whole new world of CB radio, or on any other band for that mater. Locally it could extend your range quite a ways.Hard to put numbers like miles to it however, too many variables. A horizontal beam is great for "shooting skip" as you can usually get...

You mean Bandit inspired. If it was Smokey inspired it would have any doors or roof!!:D:D

When did the export radios start showing up? Did they show up right when CB went to 40 channels from 23 or was it sometime later? Was there a company that is known as the first to come out with an "export" model?

It's not worth their time nor money. Enforcement goes primarily to the concerns on the broadcast bands where big money is concerned and they have more responsibility to look after those concerns. I would imagine that their policy is not to care about anything on CB as long as it stays on CB...

Back when bugs and straight keys were far more common I just got used to hearing them and could "interpret" more styles or vagaries in keying. Some locals that I heard a lot I could tell who it was by their fist and signal strength. It can be kinda distinctive.. I remember in a CW contest a...

$200 puts you in the used category of communications receivers. Around $400 gets you to some new things like this Alinco receiver. https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/commrxvr/0084.html Emergency stuff like police and fire requires a different animal, a scanner radio. A lot of it is digital...

I picked up an essentially new in the box Icom IC-R71 receiver and SP-3 speaker at a thrift shop a year ago that was left there to sell for the owner who put an ad on Craigslist for $100. The shop owner seemed real disappointed at the $100 price so I gave him $150. Still a heck of a deal and...