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Author:  JeepMorrison [ Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:31 pm ]
Post subject:  cb antenna/swr
when you guys mount up the CB antenna to the door side of the spare tire, whats yalls SWR like??? im planning on going with a 4 ft wilson flex, but im afraid it wont handle enough power
Author:  JeepinJarhead03 [ Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: cb antenna/swr
SWR off the spare will always be a bit off, around 1.4-1.5

my flex4 is on the roof, never had any problems with it and the SWR is dead on purty even as beat to pieces as it is

unless youre going to run a linear there's no way you'll over power the flex-4, only issues I've had with the flex is that it's a very high gain antenna in comparison to K40's and what not and the quality of the tuneability of the radio gain/rx wise will play a big roll in how well the antenna works for you - with the high gain you may end up chasing alot of RFI especially mounted at the spare. I moved mine to the roof, away from the spare, because I couldn't get the fuel pump noise out of it with it mounted on the rear.

additionally, for use on the rear I think I'd go with a firestick 4 on a HD spring, the flex 4's have alot of flex, in my opinion, too much flex to mount on the rear without it slapping the vehicle upon rebounds
Author:  bugnout [ Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: cb antenna/swr
JeepinJarhead03 wrote:
I'd go with a firestick 4 on a HD spring


x2 on the firestick 4 on a spring. I've gotten very good performance.
Author:  JeepMorrison [ Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: cb antenna/swr
i might go with the fire stick, handles more power, i have a cobra 29 running a rfx75

yall running the orginal firestick or the firestick II?
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