Brand new cobra cb put it in yesterday. I have dual antenas. Yesterday I could talk to people up to about a mile a way. Today I can't talk to people over 50 yards. Any ideas why I can't talk farther than that? All the connections are good.

 

Squelch?

rf gain?

Shorted ant?

just throwing stuff out

 

I would get an swr meter from radio shack and make sure it's dialed in. Very simple to do and the tester isn't too expensive.

* and by it I mean the antenna, you are tuning the antenna to the radio not the radio to the antenna

 

Where did you mount your cb at?? Have pics?? And how did you run your antenna cable to your radio?

 

Ok thanks I'm gonna work on it tommorrow. And I mounted it in the little square box on top the dash above the radio. Took it out drilled two holes for th bracket and 1 hole for the wires. It looks like it was made to go there.

 

And I ran the wires through the back doors and under the door strip and up through the dash. You can't see the wires at all.

 

if you put a swr meeter on the radio you should see if the ant is shorted

 

Ok ill get a meter today?

 

I have a swr meter from radioshack I might be willing to sell if your interested. Used it once and it's still in the box. I believe I still have the reciept as well.

 

only run one ant. the dual setup looks cool, but you will get better performance. i used to run it all, started with a whip, it sucked. then dual setup lke you, was a little better. then ran a fiberglass single, was the best performance.