notamechanic
NAXJA Forum User
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- Orange County, CA
Hey all,
looking for some advice from the electrical wizards that frequent here.
Not that this is at all technical, but over my head.
I have a midland 1001lwx that is wired directly to the battery.
I have my a firestik firefly mounted on the rockhard tire carrier antenna mount.
Using the K4R firestik mount, heavy duty spring. and a Wilson CB coax with fme connector and boot.
I cannot get my SWR below 2-2.3ish on channels 1 & 40. Went on a trail run and my transmits were received loud and clear, but I was getting terrible reception back. I could hardly hear the others and would loose reception in like 50 yards.
Wondering if I should just run the antenna on a tail light mount and if that would get me better reception or if i should drill a grounding mount on my tire carrier.
I made one out of 12gauge copper wire, but that did not help. Probably a little long and might need at least 10 gauge?
looking for some advice from the electrical wizards that frequent here.
Not that this is at all technical, but over my head.
I have a midland 1001lwx that is wired directly to the battery.
I have my a firestik firefly mounted on the rockhard tire carrier antenna mount.
Using the K4R firestik mount, heavy duty spring. and a Wilson CB coax with fme connector and boot.
I cannot get my SWR below 2-2.3ish on channels 1 & 40. Went on a trail run and my transmits were received loud and clear, but I was getting terrible reception back. I could hardly hear the others and would loose reception in like 50 yards.
Wondering if I should just run the antenna on a tail light mount and if that would get me better reception or if i should drill a grounding mount on my tire carrier.
I made one out of 12gauge copper wire, but that did not help. Probably a little long and might need at least 10 gauge?