I have been in and out just looking at the site.....Had some things to do and radio got put on the back of the shelf...
I am still up in the air on this antenna thing.The truck is bonded EVERY where top to bottom, inside and out...I have tried two new mounts, in 3 locations. New coax 3 times. Used a friends mfj, used my mfj, used the antenna pro.
Back story Everything worked great. Then got odd swr readings, found out coax connector, (male) at the out bound swr/power meter was lose at the center, so I just replaced the coax too (it was one year old in the mobile).....from this point crap swr's, R= junk, and X= junk, so it's come to the point I'm going to take it in to the radio shop and have them put in a new antenna system, all coax's radio to meter, to antenna....it's the craziest thing. I was up running the 108in. whip at swr 1.3 (with power 1.5) and an R=38, X=7. got some so.cal skip on lsb38, and a little action on .555 (usb) out of n. mexico but it was Short action, maybe 4 hours here in cent. oregon. Everyone had me at "59' 59++" you know how that can be....I had them at 37, 46, ...and so on.
Any way, the wife's transplant is acting up, and we have been tied up a the doc's, so when were up at the hospital the truck will be at the radio shop. 73
