Just trying not to fry the finals
The current antenna puts the coil about 6 inches or so above the ladder.
I do appreciate that the sirio performer 5000 may be a better antenna than my current one. I just can't be that tall.
If I was going to add an antenna that tall, I'd just mount a 102" steel whip on the rear bumper or something.
Currently I'm over 9 ft tall. I hit every drive thru clearance marker I've been through(most of my meals are eaten behind the wheel). Now its starting to bend the shaft a little. The last drive-thru i went thru even bent the stinger a little where it connect above the coil.
Being able to drop the antenna 90 degrees for parking garages is great but still a hassle. Good thing that is not an everyday thing. I even hit a tree limb hanging over the road ever time I come home.
I did read that somewhere.
Where and what kind of 2-needle meter would you recommend for affordable (not cheap) entry level?
I did repurpose a ferrite split bead choke off a pinpad cable. Don't know the mix. The ID of the bead just allowed me to snap it around the coax. It was placed just below the coax connector at base of the mount.
Read that about 6 to 10 coils of coax would act as a common mode choke. Coiled as not to change the characteristics of the coax. Did I understand that correctly?
Coiling the coax cable causking problems....a myth or fact?
Was talking to a guy on the CB the other day about my Cobra 29LTD. He told me to crank VR4 and VR5 almost full counter clockwise.
Did a little research and seems VR4 would increase the modulation. From what I can find that adjusting VR4 a little would be OK. Not cranked blindly full CCW but can monitor with the talkback feature. Would this be OK to do?
Seems that VR5 just adjusted the meter on the front of the radio. Just cranking on VR5 would just throw the meter off, correct?
Also noticed the SWR is starting to creep up a bit and I think I know what that issue is, and the fix.
When I put the TruckSpec TS-2500S antenna. I removed all the paint or powdercoating from where the mount attached to the ladder rack. Also every contact point where one piece of the ladder rack attaches to another. Also where the bonding straps that I'm using on both sides of the rack to the door jam of the van.
I did't protect the bear metal to metal contact. Now I noticed that a little rust is starting to form.
I'm going to clean all those contact points again and put some dielectric grease there.
