Posted: 7/23/2011 3:36:57 PM EDT
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Ok, so im driving for 5 hours tomorrow and decided I should get HF in my car, I have a friend's outbacker and magmount that im thinking about buying from her, threw it on, plugged it all in and then ran a ground to the metal on the inside of my trunk. I took the paint off, punched a hole and bolted the ground to the metal, which is welded to the fenders and trunk lid.
I dont have an easy way to run a ground to the frame or I would have done that right away. The antenna tunes just fine on 14-10, and it does tune on 40, but not on 80, not a big deal, probably insufficent grounding, but whatever. My main problem is I cant hear anything, everyonce and a while a faint voice, but unreadable. Noise isnt bad, my smeter doesnt even register anything, that might be fishy though.... Any thoughts or suggestions? The bands do suck right now, but not bad enough to where I cant hear anything Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I got it, the mount was broken, a little solder and it looks decent, there was a lot of corrosion inside of it and I kind of want to pull the coax out and redo the whole thing, but the mount its self isn't that great so im thinking about just buying a new one. we fixed it up and stuck it on and the meter gave me 1.5 on 20 meters, so I left and on my way back i made my first mobile HF QSO, Brazil.  starting at 2100z tomorrow I should be on the air, until 0200z. come and find me, from 2100 to 2200 I will be in ND, and after that MN.
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