Vinnie S. wrote:
On 01 Feb 2005 11:56:27 GMT, Steveo wrote:

Vinnie S. wrote:
I got it down to 1.5 on 40, and 1.3 on 1. I can probably get it down
to 1.3 on 40, and that is it.

Vinnie S.

Cool. Made any contacts yet?

I few last night, granted I spen the majority of the night on the SWR. I
did make a 15 mile trip to Delaware. No bad for a Firestik in the attic.

Yup, not bad at all.

On 01 Feb 2005 11:56:27 GMT, Steveo wrote:

Vinnie S. wrote:
I got it down to 1.5 on 40, and 1.3 on 1. I can probably get it down to
1.3 on 40, and that is it.

Vinnie S.

Cool. Made any contacts yet?


I few last night, granted I spen the majority of the night on the SWR. I did
make a 15 mile trip to Delaware. No bad for a Firestik in the attic.

Vinnie S.

Of course you are running illegal power with that radio
it is not legal for CB so whatever results you got are
because you cheated, went outside the rules, basically
dishonest, not to be trusted, etc.

Hello Vinnie:

If that antenna doesn't work, maybe a out side stealth small gauge wire
vertical dipole will work great, if you have some tree's around.

Jay in the Mojave

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Vinnie S. wrote:

A bunch of people have been helping me here with this. I got my setup running,
but have a high SWR on the CB band. Here are the parameters:


My SWR is 1.5 on channel 1, and 3 on channel 40.


1. I have a a 6 foot Firestik in the attic. I am using 8 pieces of 10 gauge
wire, all 102" long, as a ground plane connected to the mounting stud.

2. The mounting stud and ground plane wires are not connected to earth ground.
There is no way I can get a ground rod into the frozen ground. Not at least for
a few weeks.

3. I am using 50' of LMR-400 coax. No shorts measured.

4. I have a RF choke/balun of about 8 turns, 8 inches round, about 2 inches
below the antenna and ground plane wires. I cannot get it any lower.

5. The radio is a HR-2510, and that is not grounded for the same reason as #2.


I did a frequency check to see where this antenna is tuned. It seems to be tuned
for 26.500-26.800 MHz. The SWR is a flat 1.2 across that band. It starts to
when I go below or above that band.

I wanted to know if there is anything I should do before I cut the wire on the
Firestik. Would grounding the ground plane or the radio to a ground rod help?

And suggestions are appeciated.

Vinnie S.

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 05:24:05 -0800, Jay in the Mojave wrote:



Just temportary Jay. I will get an antenna up in the spring.

Vinnie S.