Indoor CB Antenna Help

[angelofwar]

Completely unrelated to the topic -- Great pic -- but the hard hat made me laugh -- like that will protect you if one of those things drops on your head....

LOL! It's just to keep us from knocking our heads into things while building them.

Well, I got my Dipole in (18'/50ohms/27mhz), and will install it when I get home in the morning, and will attempt to "field tune" it until I get an SWR meter.

So, here goes...let me see if I got this right.

The main CB channel I will be using is 21 (27.215mhz). 468/27.215 = 17.196 or ~ 17'2". 10" short of the 18' cable. So, if I tuck (bend back on itself) 5" from each end, that should give me a good ball-park area until I can get an SWR meter.

That should work for a quick "feild tuning" right??? With little to no chance of damaging my CB? Keep in mind, this is (for now) going in my garage for local CB comm as part of my bug-in preps. I may attempt to move it outside at a later date, but we'll see. Oh, and I will be hanging it horizontally since it will be for local comm's.

Can I get a warm fuzzy that I'm taking all this stuff in right?

Thanks again for all the help!

 

[JayMojave]

Hello Anglofwar: That sounds like a great place to start.

Jay in the Mojave

 

[angelofwar]

Hello Anglofwar: That sounds like a great place to start.

Jay in the Mojave

Thanks Jay! I grew up in Victorville! (George AFB).

Going to go hang it now, and I will let you all know how it fares!