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Flying_cloud
New member
Username: Flying_cloud
Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 10:00 pm: | 
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What is the best swr ratio for a cb? I know anything under 1.5:1 is ok and the lower the better,but can you have it too low? |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 5014
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 5:53 am: |
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1:1 is the best you can do 1.5:1 is only a 4% loss.
EVEN on my antennas which cover many bands if my radio likes it i'm happy ....
On 6 since 66
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Captian_radio
Advanced Member
Username: Captian_radio
Post Number: 555
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 1:14 pm: |
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I am so glad to see that someone finally called it SWR and not SWR's lol and 1.5 is just fine and nothing to worry about.
bob
Robert L. Spicer The days of radio are just beginning!
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Flying_cloud
New member
Username: Flying_cloud
Post Number: 7
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 1:51 am: |
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Thanks yall
The reasion Why I ask is one person I know played with my wilson 5000 magnet mount and the bolt in the mount rusted and changed my swr so bad that it Exploded my finals!!! so i had to buy a new magnet mount and repair my rig. (FYI) When a set of finals explode the boom will make jump! 
Magnet mount for cb $29.99
New set of matched finals $70.00
Catching the guy who done this PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!
on my new mount i used liquid tape on all seams and bottom to make the base totaly water proof
and dielectric grease in the part where the antenna screws in LOL!!!!!! Let him do that again i dare him!!!!!!!!!! |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 5019
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 3:07 am: |
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It should be VSWR .... but Just like 73 and 88 it's getting better .....
On 6 since 66
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Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 5020
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 5:49 am: |
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Exploded my finals!!! ?????? WOW except in high power radar power supply ive never seen them explode ...
Sounds like your radio has no fail-safe or shutdown for the finals ....
$70 is high ..... for a CB set ...
But with motorola out of the market things are a bit crazy .... My FT-100D finals are $300 for AFTERMARKET ones since the MOT ones are no longer made ... Same goes for the IC-706 $449 if you pop the VHF/UHF ones .....
Crank your radio down cool it with a fan and it will live a long and ( keep you ) happy life ....
On 6 since 66
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1150
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 9:45 am: |
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Not just the finals have got expensive, CPUs used in radios even mics. A replacement mic for my wife's IC-208 is $95, the whole radio only cost me a little over twice that.
Simon
Tech237
N7AUS
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Flying_cloud
New member
Username: Flying_cloud
Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 1:44 pm: |
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$95 for a mic thats high.
and by the way it was not my cb finals that fried. not running bare foot. had a pair of shoes on. |
