[Mobile-Portable] 10 meter mobile

[john]

Some thoughts:

Is the coax any good?

Try physically grounding the antenna base...both a lip mount and a mag
mount can have no good electrical connection at the antenna base. Try at
least clipeading some 1/4 wave wires (7.5 feet each or so) to the trunk lid
base
and see what happens.

Are you sure that the transmitter is transmitting on frequency?

John K5MO



At 07:06 PM 10/3/03 -0400, W8OKN wrote:
>
>I am stumped.
>
>I bought a Radio Shack 10 meter rig.  One of the first things I did with
was set it up in the house.  I built a 10 meter dipole and it had a very
good SWR, in the house.
>
>When I first placed it in the car, I used a trimmed down 11 meter antenna
and could not get the SWR below 3:1.
>
>Thinking it was the mag mount, I replaced the mag mount with a trunk lip
mount.  Still, the SWR would not go below 3:1.  So, I bought another trunk
lip mount.  Still, it would not go down.  The original trunk lip mount was
an older one of mine.
>
>So, I finally had had it and I went out and bought a 10 meter whip from
Universal Radio.
>
>Guess what...   I can't get the SWR down below 3:1.
>
>What in the heck am I doing wrong?  I've been a ham for 26 years and have
NEVER had such an issue. I have one thought.  Should I check the ground??
Could the trunk lip mount not be grounding properly?  What other thoughts
can you think of?  What have I not eliminated?
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