Hey guys,
I created an account just for this, I've been lurking through all my google searches but either I wasn't using the correct search terms, or I was using the wrong terminology.
So here's the short of it, I've been trying to troubleshoot some engine noise on my CB. I thought I got rid of most of it but I still have to turn the squelch up a lot to cut out a lot of noise, so I took my antenna off of the stud until I could work on it during the weekend. I decided to turn my CB on today to listen for any specific harmonics while I drove to work, and forgot it was on after 10 minutes; without the antenna on and with my NB/ANL filter toggled, all the noise was all but gone but a faint whisper, so I had the squelch turned basically off. So I'm at a red light and all of a sudden I start receiving and I could hear someone talking (I was on CH. 19). It lasted for a solid second or two and then it was gone. A second or two of silence (I guess someone responding) and then I heard the same person talking again.
All I have set up right now is the CB to the battery, and the coax (Firestik Fire Ring) to the antenna mount and connected to the antenna stud (FireStik K4A, also all the insulator washers are setup correctly). Do you think that the antenna stud is acting as a very tiny antenna? Or could it be something else?
Thanks,
Kel
I created an account just for this, I've been lurking through all my google searches but either I wasn't using the correct search terms, or I was using the wrong terminology.
So here's the short of it, I've been trying to troubleshoot some engine noise on my CB. I thought I got rid of most of it but I still have to turn the squelch up a lot to cut out a lot of noise, so I took my antenna off of the stud until I could work on it during the weekend. I decided to turn my CB on today to listen for any specific harmonics while I drove to work, and forgot it was on after 10 minutes; without the antenna on and with my NB/ANL filter toggled, all the noise was all but gone but a faint whisper, so I had the squelch turned basically off. So I'm at a red light and all of a sudden I start receiving and I could hear someone talking (I was on CH. 19). It lasted for a solid second or two and then it was gone. A second or two of silence (I guess someone responding) and then I heard the same person talking again.
All I have set up right now is the CB to the battery, and the coax (Firestik Fire Ring) to the antenna mount and connected to the antenna stud (FireStik K4A, also all the insulator washers are setup correctly). Do you think that the antenna stud is acting as a very tiny antenna? Or could it be something else?
Thanks,
Kel