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Freebird
Intermediate Member
Username: Freebird
Post Number: 303
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2005 - 9:32 pm: | 
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how do i hook up an swr/power meter inline with a radio and a amp?this is going to be in my car. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 3212
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2005 - 10:10 pm: |
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I would put it right at the antenna feed ( radio end of coax after amp ) so you could show power out and swr at the amp output. |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 834
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005 - 2:56 am: |
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freebird, check your post in the Ask the Tech section.
answers are afoot! |
Chainsawiowa
Member
Username: Chainsawiowa
Post Number: 56
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005 - 9:01 am: |
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Antenna coax to Ant on Meter, Radio input from Meter to Ant input on Amp, Radio off of Amp to your CB thats it !! |
Cowboy_bob
Junior Member
Username: Cowboy_bob
Post Number: 44
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 6:53 pm: |
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output from radio to input of amp..... output from amp to input on meter... hook up antenna to the output of the meter... remember to always use jumpers in 3 foot increments.3 foot, 6 foot etc... After you have this all hooked up, with the linear turned off your swr's should be 1.3 or lower or you may blow a pill. Once you find your swr reading, remember it... When you turn the amp on recalibrate your swr meter.... The swr's will read HIGHER, but it is a false reading.... When you talk and swing, the swr needle should swing down back to the original swr reading I told you to remember |
Danta
New member
Username: Danta
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 5:26 pm: |
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do you use the calibration on the radio at all or just the external meter for adjustments ? ? |
Hotwire
Senior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 1925
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 2:04 pm: |
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Danta, Are you talking about the internal swr meter? Its best to avoid those and use external meters.Internals are know to be inacurate. Since it is there I do like to compare the 2 reading but usually the external shows lower. |
Kdc19561954
New member
Username: Kdc19561954
Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2014
| | Posted on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:51 pm: |
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I have a amp and a meter and my cb how do I hook all of this up? I can hook it up fine with out the meter inline and it works good but when I try to hook all of this up I get very lost. |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2307
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 2:13 pm: |
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Kdc19561954 wrote: "I have a amp and a meter and my cb how do I hook all of this up?"
You don't. It is illegal to run an external amplifier on CB.
If you are talking about an amateur radio installation, then it goes Ham Radio > Amplifier > SWR meter > Antenna
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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