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My apologies :)

I have used a piece of flat bar bent to 90° and mounted the antenna to that (coax centre to antenna and earth to the bracket. I have several basic whippy antenna but the one I have to is a twin coil thunderpole no longer on there website.

Does the metal plate not need to be flat ...

Hi all,

This may have been discussed previously, although I'm struggling to find info. I decided to get creative and set up a mobile cb in my shed. Really happy, made a bracket for the side of the shed and receiving lovely signal. SWR through the roof. Of course I didn't think about the fact my ...

i changed the wiring in the echo chamber plug to match the mic plug, but have no idea were the wires go inside the box. It was my dads and he cant remember so we have been trying a few of the 1000 different ways it can go :/

Maxon CM 10 isnt in the list is it, not sure

I have just bought a maxon and have found an es 880 ic echo box under our stairs, plugged it in and it didnt work so i guess its the wiring, i changed the wires in the plug on the echo box to match the microphone plug and it still dosnt work, the only thing left is the wiring in the back of the plug ...

i started with a midland 78+, but bought the maycom because i liked the look of it, i do say its a nice radio but only has 80 uk legal channels. But i was cruising the net, and came accross modifications to it, not that i have done any but it magically makes your 80 channel radio pick up more, from ...

its ok, im a noob who plugged it in the wrong way round on the swr meter

thank you for the answers

I have just bought a K40 and generally impressed with it. But when i tried to SWR it, the meter read 2 on channel 1, and 2 on channel 40. Should this not be lower? it is on a magmount on the centre roof of my car, any ideas????

ow often do people here DX? i have been up the past 3 nights but never really talked, were can i get the call name, like my CT 118 24?

i dont have a burner, i dont believe in them........i will stand by my amp though lol

i think its turning out to be a regular trip for me and cyclops (if he joins the forum) so will let you know when were up there,

thats fine, i know what you mean about working all hours.

Thanks a lot,
Karl

did you eat the yellow snow?

How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb.....
10, one to change the bulb the other 9 to sing about the old one.

Golden Oldies :P

what do you call a bomberang that dosnt come back?
a stick

why didnt the skeleton go to the party?
he had no 'body' to go with

why didnt the ghost ...

I have a midland 78 plus mobile cb in my car, it used to connect to a 7'' turbo mag but now its on a hatch mount. I use 2 twigs;

1) tornado whip (from maplin)
2) discovery III (from thunderpole)

When i DX, i always get told the same thing, im very quiet, with both aerials but i am a bit louder ...