my local ham radio community!

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I’ll never get into ham but I have been getting back into CB’s lately since I started driving part time. The trucks have radios that suck. The radio broke in my truck so I put my own portable unit in.

We have a few drivers in the area that have very nicely tuned radios. Loud and clear and when on the logging roads you need a good radio. I built a mount that I can swap between trucks and tuned the swr to where the needle barely moves. As good as it gets. I am now wanting a bit more.

I just bought a used meter on eBay so I can tune my old radio. I want to get the modulation up to 100% and possibly take the power up a tad. I don’t want a linear or anything illegal. I just want to maximize the Cobra 29 classic without adding anything to it. If I can get a super clear sound out of it and a few miles of extra range I will be happy.

I’m pretty ignorant to radios and tuning but I have been reading, and sorting through the crap, about how to peak and tune the radio. There really isn’t one good source I have found online to show me how to do it all at once. When my meter arrives I’ll bring the radio home and set it up and check everything against the meter and then adjust one issue at a time until I get it 100%.

these new trucks don’t ground worth a crap either. I grounded out my antennas and peaked/tuned a classic 29 in the blue freightshaker I was driving and I more that doubled my CB range, probably close to tripled it. 

the western star I have no has crap radio output so I’ll need to work on it soon too if I stay in it.