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If i mount it on my roof i can't fit in any parking garages. Most of them have like an inch of clearance above my roof anyway. I ground some of the galvanized stuff off my mount and i am getting even less static and alot more power on the meter when i press the button.
mr. watson would sh!t. dont breath the galvanized stuff.
not welding it, just scraping it on the concrete:gigem:
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Originally Posted by TdmayfieldIV
thats how i roll:flipoff2:
holy **** man, just run a seperate ground wire to the frame. I learned this lesson a long time ago
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Originally Posted by RCcola55
See above. Newbs. :rolleyes:
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Take the ground off the frame and clean the undercoating/paint off the frame so that the bolt will make better contact.
did thatQuote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
First off, galvanization doesn't impede electrical flow, it's a conductor not an insulator.Quote:
Originally Posted by TdmayfieldIV
Why don't you borrow a magnet mount antenna and see what it does for you.
my bad, now just raise that bitch to wear its above the body. if hieght is a problem, then just take the antenna off when u arent wheeing
then how would he call the lot lizards and tell one of them to meet him at the house as he is leaving campus after class?
The package says 2 feet above the body of the truck. So i just have to move it up like 1 foot
So i have been looking up ground planes and there is not really a good solution to this problem except to buy a no ground plane antenna. This is designed for vehicles with fiberglass bodies or no good places to mount an antenna. So, i plan on selling my current setup and buying one of these.
http://www.rightchannelradios.com/fi...a-kit-300.html
did you ever wire the radio strait to the battery?
not yet, i haven't had time
quit being ****ing retarded!
... and wire it to the battery before you go and buy/sell anything.
Also, borrow a magnetic antennae and see what that does.
i got one.
Ok, so how does it behave vs. the other one?Quote:
Originally Posted by TdmayfieldIV
he didn't say he'd tried it! Just like Hotpocket's truck won't start anymore :flipoff2:
Roger, Roger. Whats your Vector, Victor?
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Originally Posted by uglyota
And i haven't been home to try it yet.
Sorry I had the impression that you were the brains behind hotpocket's operation :p
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ok, here is a list of things i plan on doing when i have time
see how it works with the magnetic antenna
Move the good antenna
Wire cb straight to battery
tune with swr meter
I am not ignoring your advice i just haven't had time yet
I am not being an arse, I really want to know, what does wiring it straight to the battery do?
I can't explain exactly why, but when I have a bunch of alternator noise running it through a cig lighter plug or from the fuse box, when I move it straight to the battery it has always fixed the problem.
the alternator is tied to the rest of the harness and involves feedback. once you separate it then the feedback is no longer an issue and thus no more interferance
Ok, so today i moved the antenna, wired the cb to the battery, put another isolator on the antenna and took off the frame ground. I took it out to 6 and talked to a couple of truckers and it went 1-2 miles. They all said i was coming in loud and clear I could hear them loud and clear too.
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...ieldIV/073.jpg
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...ieldIV/074.jpg
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...ieldIV/076.jpg
(this was bare metal so i had to prevent more rust:gigem:)
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...ieldIV/072.jpg
When i key the mike this is what I get. Before tonight when i keyed it i got maybe 2.5 and now i get 4.5. Also the radio wasn't getting enough power so it would work for a minute and then not send a signal (thats what happened this morning, flem)
This thing is badass!! I can talk to people on 6 from lot 40!
would you like a cookie, cause all we have is peanut butter and if your allergic then you can go and **** yourself
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Originally Posted by colman
So when you planning on returning my CB :flipoff2:
:flipoff2:Patience is a virtue
and theft is a crime!! :flipoff2::flipoff2:
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I am not being an arse, I really want to know, what does wiring it straight to the battery do?
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the alternator rectifier isn't doing its job 100%, and the coil isn't helping.
the battery acts as a big ass capacitor to smooth the AC ripple that both of those devices generate. If you have big ass capacitors on the coil and alternator, which factory shat does, you shouldn't have a problem. Stuff in the off road world occasionally runs an engine and alternator from 2 different vehicles compared to the chassis. Capacitors are thrown in the emissions pile and peed on, this causes "feedback" or "backfeeding" or whatever synonym for "it don't work right" you want to use.
the battery hookup didn't fix this problem, the problem was a missing isolator on the aerial bracket. The cable was basically shorting out at the bracket/spring interface.
Ran across this site on pirate. Seems like a usefull read.
http://www.rightchannelradios.com/pa...-pv-c0-58.html