swr meter

Hi does anyone in the Solihull or Birmingham area have a swr meter they could use to help me setup my CB please.
I do get signal etc but it is not the best just want to ensure it is working at its optimum.

If you feel like a drive up to Cannock this weekend I will do it for you, I may even have a meter I can give away in my assortment of bits.

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I got one, but dont really know how to use it properly...
I set me CB up and all it worked OK, so never needed to mess about as I only use it in convoy or laning anyway. I'm in Cotteridge, B'ham

It doesn't matter if you are using it in convoy, or across town or even trying to catch skip and talk abroad, IF your antenna is not matched correctly to your transmitter you WILL blow the output transistors.

Drop me a line if you need help, no problem.

My 4' mag-mount plain steel whip gets betweem .3 at low end and .4 at top end.

Thanks Paul, all I need now is someone to talk too... very quiet out there.

tyclyd said:

Thanks Paul, all I need now is someone to talk too... very quiet out there.

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Ha Ha, get yourself an amateur license then, you'll find 2mts far better than 27megs.


On the SWR subject, the lower the better although it would work well enough as high as 2.0, over about 2.5 will start to damage the rig. Amateur rigs are usualy better made and shut down on power when the SWR is too high.

yep 2mtr/70cm or any wavelength other than 27Mhz really if you want to talk to anyone.

redhand said:

yep 2mtr/70cm or any wavelength other than 27Mhz really if you want to talk to anyone.

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Are you licnsed too?

G0JCN or G6ZHV before that

M3xlz

We should start an amateur radio section on here

bit geeky for this lot.. they have trouble using a phone or a keyboard :whoosh: :confused2:

Throw in the concept of Radio Ham and Qcodes and they'd be seriously floundering :mooning: :behindsofa:

True, but there may be more of us and we can certainly be a help to the childrens band users. Promote our "other" hobby, it could certainly do with it.

I've posted it as a suggestion, lets see if anyone responds...