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Spork947
New member
Username: Spork947
Post Number: 1
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 4:15 am: | 
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hello. I've been out of cb for a while but I'm thinking about setting it back up to stay in touch with family. They are no more than 3-5 miles away and my area should be up a little higher.
I dont want to mess with outdoor antennas or tacking dipoles in the attic.
For my radio I have a wilson 1000 stuck to one of those 2 drawer file cabinets and matched with a tuner. I tried talking from my radio to a handheld with a rubber duckie antenna at my parents house. I come through fine but cant hear them at all.
I was wondering if I could just get some speaker wire and attach 2 9 foot wires directly to the pl259 to make a simple and flexible dipole? I could run the wires along the walls but they wouldnt be straight. Im guessing this would be a big jump over a rubber duckie. Maybe 1 wire would be simpler for the handheld.
If the swr wasnt perfect or varied could this damage the radio? the 2 radios it will be used on are a old relistic 23 channel base and the handheld.
I was also wondering if a dipole would work better inside than my wilson? especially since I have a tuner?
sorry for the long winded post
thanks! |
Tech548
Moderator
Username: Tech548
Post Number: 73
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 1:39 am: |
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Spork947
Personally, I believe you are expecting miracles from a handheld. The problem isn't on your end so much as it is on the handheld end. Asking a "indoor" rubberduck antenna to penetrate 3-5 miles worth of obsticals before it reaches your "indoor" antenna is really asking a lot.
Get a couple of dipole antennas from Radio Shack and see if that will help some. Mount them as high as possible. Even then, talking indoor to indoor at 3-5 miles away from each other will be very limited and weak at best.
Jeff. |
Bullet
Intermediate Member
Username: Bullet
Post Number: 337
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 3:19 am: |
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yes, much better make a couple dipoles
be sure to orintate them the same way facing one another. |
