How to tune SWR's for a CB

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Jan 11, 2009 | 04:30 PM

fivendime

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How to tune SWR's for a CB

I just bought an SWR meter to tune my CB antenna. Does anybody know how to do this correctly? There seems to be no write up for this on here.

Jan 11, 2009 | 04:56 PM

StillwaterEMT42

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I'm writin one up.. give me like 15 minutes. Haha.

Jan 11, 2009 | 05:33 PM

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I Got it down! The shop I went to told me its a bunch of work and they were going to charge me 25-45 bucks depending on if "everything is right". I bought an SWR Meter at Radio Shack as with a 2' coax cable for around 30 bucks. I figured I should take the chance to learn something new. Well, I did I got my swr's between 1.2 and 1.4 with a spring which I think is around a 2-3 percent power loss. A write up on this in the "How To" section would be awesome for the folks in the future.