Hustler used those ball pivots on their base loaded antennas and I always like them because it allowed you to adjust your antenna making it as vertical as possible

If you leave the plastic wrapping on it will give you a 10db gain on transmit.

This is a very good antenna. I’ve worked skip and local contacts out to 20 miles. Unbelievable performance for its size.

Thank you for this video. You’re exactly right about truckers and antenna problems with trees. And yes channel 6 is something.

I'm glad to hear you say that about channel 6, 11 and the other one. I never understood why in the world anybody would get on the radio and talk like that.

Great Listening To Ya And your Ideas

I've watched this video 5 times now....loving it....yeah buddy. ( Minnesota corn bread out ) Mike from minnesota

100 Watts that antenna, and your president would've had you heard in the DX. Nice president Mississippi antenna. And another excellent review. Thanks.

The bad part about the semi truck is all the aluminum and metal in the cab. If you try to run the antenna straight up, it’s hard to get a 1.5 or less swr. On a mirror mount set up. If you have the Mirror hoops you can get above the cab. All the new trucks don’t use those. I try to tell a fellow truck drivers, to use top loaded antennas. Like fire sticks. Trying to tune a set of Wilson antennas is terrible on the new trucks. KD0LDL thanks for your videos I enjoy watching them.

When they coming out with the President TRUMP Radio ? And Antenna.

@asherdie

5 жыл бұрын

It will be the greatest, believe me, the best ever! MAGA

@SeumasSiosal

4 жыл бұрын

dunno yolo Competition Trump Tower antenna

@kirksvillemale

4 жыл бұрын

It will be yuge

@ronniehill8213

3 жыл бұрын

President TRUMP Insurrection Edition 🤣 🤣🤣

@dunnoyolo2238

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronniehill8213 you need the Fucking Biden commi edition 😂😂😂😂

We lean them foward.... so when we are Rollin. The antenna is up striaght.

@mikesradiorepair

5 жыл бұрын

I understand and can agree with that. It's the people that have them at 45 degree angles or more that just make me shake my head. I don't care if they are going 100MPH the antenna will still never get to a perfectly straight up and down point.

@WinZard

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikesradiorepair yes exactly….. also when sitting still you are only talking with a block or so and keeps reflect from cab down.

@ronaldgentry9923

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikesradiorepair Tall antennas on top of big truck mirrors will trip over height sensors on highways, some of them are tilted forward to avoid that.

@ronaldgentry9923

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveaf3023 I agree, Was just repeating what I was told when I ask a guy in a Kenworth why he had his antennas laying forward.

My buddy and I really enjoy cb

slight forward lean for some of us truckers is to try to keep the 13'6" clearance.

I had a good time parking high elevation, and after the painful choice of cutting an 8 ft whip, and adding male and female threads to make it sectional, stowable, listend to where skip was coming from, parking side of car facing that way, and the 6 inch magnet on the back trunk edge, yeah, making a horizontal dipole, half cash car, half whip, worked skip with much quieter recieve. Luckilly a jogger or bicyclist did not cruise through and get shish k-bobbed.

I helped this driver with His SWR and when I did that I decided to see what would happen if I tilted His Antennas if I tilted them forward and Straight up.... I noticed when I Tilted them too far forward and also straight up it raised the SWR, but when I tilted them about 10* forward it was the best.... The SWR was higher because Straight up there was a reflection from the Cab because he had a Conventional, and too far forward it reflected off the engine, but as slight forward tilt was just right tilt...

I use a president texas 1800 and its one of the best antennas ive ever used....

@NoHandleNameScrewTube

5 жыл бұрын

gregory burbage me too been using the president texas 1800 also and agree 100%

Great video!

I am about 120 miles from you! Hope to catch you on the air one day!

Sounded like Spark- plug in there. Try channel 34 AM it is usually pretty quiet - that is where the local retired truck drivers talk at in the Arkansas - Louisiana area from about 3 to 6 in the evenings.,

the purpose of tilting is to counter the bend of the wire when they bend from wind, so that they end up vertical

a couple quick points. 1- if the is laying down (folded over) then to the side it would be the difference from vertical polarity to horizontal polarity which will drop your signal up to 20db. 2- the garage shouldn't make much problem with skip. Most vertical have an upward radiation of 16-20 degrees thus radiating right to the ionosphere so the signal can "skip"

@brianradio7311

5 жыл бұрын

I agree,i used to use a K40 mag mount on my car trunk open the trunk and work skip on the flat side,worked better then vertical for me in cycle 23!

@dtbradio6202

10 ай бұрын

Exactly right on both counts. We ran basic, relative field strength tests on a couple big rigs from 90 degrees vertical to about 135 degrees forward rotation, and there was a very significant drop in level.

I always thought the trucks with the antennas tilted forward was so when they were moving the wind would blow them back to vertical.

i got dual mississippi antannas and then tried dual texas antannas. the short mississippi performed just as well as the texas

Will See you on the Next One!!

nice little antenna, on my car i have to run straps all over the place for grounding and run wires up from all 4 sides to center of roof to ground(chassis) otherwise can't tune antennas lower then 2.1. it's a hassle but it's the what you have to do thesedays since cars are made of tin can garbage 73' k7sce

Those big trucks with forward tilted antennas, at highway speed the antennas bow backwards so they're vertical-ish.

I always install mine with the package still on; it works way btr, and aggravates people. Whatever i do, what I want!

I never had that problem my front yard is an 800 acres soybean field and behind me into the size of me was Lake lotawana thousands of acres

Could it be the radio being overloaded by the extremely strong signal causing the extreme bleed-over?

The Rubber Ring is for adjusting SWR on certain channels. Because this is a Brand Specific it most likely didn't need moved on your setup. I have had some fiberglass ones that had a rubber sleeve you would slide up or down for better SWR. No cutting or adjusting those ya know. Oh! and SOME maybe not all drivers tilt them forward because they "Think" they can straighten them up at speed. So in other words, they are sort of bragging on how fast their truck can go the more forward the antena is tilled... I know crazy right!!!

If you are going to get heavy into antenna reviews, check out the Larsen NMO27. Have tho tune it since its a general purpose low band antenna but they are quite rugged.

@dw8840

2 жыл бұрын

I had a now silent key ham recommend an NMO-30 with the 64" whip. He said it was better than the NMO-27. Probably due to less load coil and more whip exposure.

Little round rubber or plastic to keep it off of the body

happy with my tram trucker 3500 . antenna ..

The ufo could be a type of capacity hat this is used also in big hf vertical antennas

President make a excellent radio

I had a President McKinley and it didn't have a SWR meter unless it is the new version, The one I had actually had LSB,AM,USB FM had been disabled or something I just don't have it any more as my friend from Portglenone has it now.

@mikesradiorepair

6 жыл бұрын

The current McKinley that is being made now is microprocessor controlled.

Man you got an act with yack.

Mikesradiorepair I have a vintage president jackson , and the receiver gets overloaded on ssb when receiving a stonger signal. Can you repair it?

I like all (hustler antennas )... MIKE FROM MINNESOTA ( MINNESOTA CORN BREAD )

it is for wind that is why the tilt the whips

I get them guys on 6 bleeding 2 and 3 channels in here in Northern Maine, but they can be entertaining at times. I know I definitely can't get through to them

I long used a president new york antenna till it brokes, I mean swr was 1:4 very bad at the end. Changed it right now to a Sirio Omega or Super Carbonium. Problem is now I cannot drive into carport with antenna mount up. Have always go out and put them down. Now I think to go back to the new president new virginia or to the mississippi, Not sure what to do. What of the 2 antennas performs better? I think the new virginia should work better than all expect. But better than the mississippi? Friend of mine has a simmilar antenna like the mississippi. Was another name but looks simmilar. He said he has better performance than other antennas even when the are longer ... What to do?

Appreciate this video. I'm looking to run a ccx 102" stainless antenna. I pull a van trailer. If I install it behind my cab will I get by interference ? Should I put a clear rubber hose on my antenna to help with the interference? I drive a Volvo and the mirrors have the plastic covers and I can't get a good ground. I've ran a 102 before but pulled a flatbed so I didn't have any problems with interference. I'm running a Magnum S9. Thanks again for being there and helping everyone..

@TheDtrolinder

3 жыл бұрын

Ignore the ccx . Don't know where that came from...lol

@TheDtrolinder

3 жыл бұрын

( behind my cab will I get interference) not by ) sorry.

Where u go.....no videos 4 long time.

I figured that the whips tipped forward 45 degrees on trucks was just a questionable fashion statement. Well, not so fast. It seems that on Cascadia tractors, at least, it is impossible to achieve a good mach with the whip vertical. BTW- Do you have any experience with inactive AGC on Uniden Grant XLs? Same as similar vintage 148GTLs...

Have a president Iowa but was wondering if I trimmed it would it still be ok?

Definitely looks like they're going for the mad scientist aesthetic on this one

What mount did you use?

Great video. Thanks! Why doesn't tilting the New Yorker badly effect performance the same as you describe for the larger antenna?

i have a jcpenney 6248 look like someone wick off all the soider on the inside it lights up you can hear noise but no people no skip

my mobile wonder.....cobra 129 ltd classic, 18 ft rg8 mini au, 4ft firestick ajustable tip, 4pill amp. mount on rear of mobile with hustler quick release for 4 ft firestick. years of service and coax never exposed to the elements of weather. dead key 100 watts swing 500. very simple but very effective

@w.rustylane5650

4 жыл бұрын

WTF is a pill? Never heard of a pill amp before. Must be something new.

@freepressright

3 жыл бұрын

@@w.rustylane5650 then you must not be that well versed in the world of linear amplifiers because "pill" is a well-known slang term for a transistor, because many of them look like Advil or another tablet of some kind.

Damit Mike u got me missing up in them there mountains.that my be the guy up in Pocono. I know most people up there mike!

You gotta drop some numbers, somethin they can quickly confirm, and you will never get the loudest, someone confirming on the return bounce will be s5 most of the time. 38 does take breaks and leaves the floor open like Soul Train. Be patient. 28, 20, 17, 11, and 6 will take breaks, but it is like dragstrip light reaction time required.

I think the ufo on the antenna is a vibration dampener. We used to have similar things on our recurve bows back in the day. Or maybe it’s just a ufo.

@mikesradiorepair

Жыл бұрын

LOL, just to be clear the UFO on the antenna is NOT a deflated Chinese balloon.

Thanks Mike for the Video. I am interested in repairing CB Radios and I'm just wondering what Antenna I should get for repairing radios in my workshop. Will this antenna work for my purpose?

@robinbrown7019

Жыл бұрын

I max 2000

@Electrolab28Ag

Жыл бұрын

@@robinbrown7019 Thank you.

@robinbrown7019

Жыл бұрын

Shop home boat tower tree I max is a great antenna ..64 wave is great on my ham radio with tuner built in .40 meters 20 meters 15 meters and 10meters 11 @ 12 worked the world

@Electrolab28Ag

Жыл бұрын

@@robinbrown7019 Thanks bro. much appreciated.

I just saw this. I live in Wiconisco Pennsylvania.

We truckers tilt for SWR. These cabs are hell for signal reflect.

@psguardian

6 жыл бұрын

or for height clearance.

@skinny-peters-JR.

5 жыл бұрын

Right on brother. ..

@skinny-peters-JR.

5 жыл бұрын

with THE low SWR tilt antennas

@allanmccullough8550

5 жыл бұрын

Antennas are intended to be either vertical or horizontal and not tilted. When I see someone with their antenna tilted I know they don't know they don't understand how antennas work.

@NoHandleNameScrewTube

5 жыл бұрын

Allan McCullough I hear ya... but I hit a branch in the hills and the antenna went 45 degrees and I still talked 900 miles

He sounds like Alan Alda!!

they have some with oil n the bottom load

Add one small set of power it was fabulous in the 90s and I'm back out

I'm Running Mobile Radio cobra 29 ! What is A Good Ant. For it In my Mobile??

I'd like to see a review for a nice HF loop antenna for CB.

@mikesradiorepair

5 жыл бұрын

If someone makes one and would like to send one in for review I would be happy to.

@randyk8919

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikesradiorepair where are you we need you

God I wish there would be as much traffic in my country as there is in the US. It's a dying hobby around here :(

@ronniecardy

6 жыл бұрын

Bout dead here in the USA as well i have a CB No one is ever on now

@octavmandru9219

5 жыл бұрын

This is not traffic, it's junk. I'd rather have one decent channel everybody uses nicely than 10 idiots bleeding on 40 channels with nonsense

@jdubyaadams170

5 жыл бұрын

Don't know where y'all are located but here in South Carolina the airwaves are hopping!

Good afternoon to all I’m wondering if anybody knows how to get in contact with Mike’s radio repair I need to get a Radio aligned

I know when 6 is rolling I can hear them 4 channels away.

@skinny-peters-JR.

5 жыл бұрын

Michael M .....heck yeah those Aholes on ch. 6

that remember of how antenna package I have video game was hard to get out dumb package mike I know one is big time spatter box godfather on ch 6 right here in oakland county mike only person on super bowl channel

Most of those truckers that lean the antennas forward because at speed the things bow back. Truckers normally don't sit still talking on the radio all day but yeah when sitting they might not be as good.

I'm running a tram trucker antenna mirror mount. . if somebody is transmitting on a good radio. .I can receive his signel for about 12 or 13 miles....normal radio is about 9 miles..crap radio about 4 miles.....

I know it is a very basic question but how do you route the coax into the car?

@027MC7

3 жыл бұрын

I like to run underneath the vehicle. Find one of the rubber water/drain plugs. Make a hole in it big enough to get the coax through. After routing the cable and hooking it up, I go back and fill the plug around the coax with silicone to keep dirt dust water out.

@027MC7

3 жыл бұрын

Btw, most folks run it through one of the doors. I've never liked this method because it deforms your weather stripping and eventually crimps the cable.

So that's why I used to have no problem hearing all those drivers coming up on I-80 while I lived in Pocono

HEY MR.MIKE.... DO A REVIEW ON A ..TRAM 3500 TRUCKER ANTENNA. ..IT'S A KNOCK OFF OF A WILSON. ...MAYBE CUT IT OPEN...GUESSING THESE A COIL IN IT........MIKE FROM MINNESOTA

Only 100 watts i sure cant run this right now im runing the wilson 5000 mag mount if that tells you anything

Great video, and that guy is still annoying today in California.

I don't know if you do go on 11 meters from time to time there's a guy up in Pocono name detail Dave he makes signs and posters for your vehicles and things you can contact him about knowing me like I did say Mike there are a lot of people up there that do know who blue marlin 620 AKA milk and cookies on Channel 19 at night for all the truckers coming up I-80.

Would that radio work with a 5 foot firesitck

@WinZard

5 жыл бұрын

Any radio will work with any antenna.....

Price

My guess on the little UFO thingy is it's a capacity hat. On the antenna canted forward, I do. I run a single 102" stainless whip and the best coax i could get my hands on from Universal Radio. At highway speeds my antenna is as near vertical as possible and SWR is 1.1:1 as indicated on the radios built in meter, which is pretty well in line with my analyzer Stationary it shows 1.2-1.4 throughout the 11 meter band as shown on a Comet CAA-500 antenna analyzer. I do however have all the various components of the truck, (cab, doors and such) bonded to the frame using 1" tinned copper braid straps. You can catch me occasionally on 40 meters around 7.187 or on 20 around 14.330-14.340. And with that I dun got down, down to da ground, bye buh buh bye bye bye. Gotta love the idiot's on channel 6... 73' de John C.

never seen them bleed like that tho

He'll be running 5 kilowatt amplifiers in the bleed you 40 channels

Hello sir I want a antenna for the car this President or the wilson 1000? I’m waiting your answer Thanks.

@snakeman2506

6 жыл бұрын

the tram 3500 is a good one

@LionWithTheLamb

6 жыл бұрын

Tram 3500 is indeed good.

@waltsmith6515

Жыл бұрын

Wilson 1000 works great for me,can easily talk 30 miles barefoot, mobile

The only good mobile CB antenna is a full-length quarter-wave whip. As for activity, the only local activity in San Diego is the alcohol and drug addicted crowd on ch. 19.

@jeffelliott3883

5 жыл бұрын

Get your friends involved and talk on the commute, weekends or whatever. Select a channel and keep this alive. The great thing is that you have a virtual private line and if you don't then you may recruit same minded individuals to join in. In the 70's and early 80's you had a hard time finding an empty channel.

@chrishall6443

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Allan where you at in S.D.?? My handle is Amphibious Creature on 19 out in the North County.

I have family in fairfield

Do you have to tune this antena

@mikesradiorepair

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is adjustable and should be adjusted for minimum reflection/SWR.

you might pick up ft Ritchie

I cannot use it because it will only handle 100 wats

Well, with an SDR receiver a few miles away you could measure the performance of this antenna, best compared to a DV27L as a reference. There are enough freely accessible (KIWI) SDR receivers in your area.

@ComputerLearning0

Жыл бұрын

Those KIWI receivers are a great source for that. I use them all the time and love just tuning in and listening. It's very gracious of the people who purchase them and allow others to logon and use these fine receivers.

C'mon Mike. The UFO is a super secret signal snatcher. Yeah, signal snatcher. That's the ticket.

Yes I would be fine with public executions for channel 6 user's on the "Super Bowel". I do not mind people using power or even operating where they do not belong. I hate splatter boxes and Ghost talking and any form of agitating and noise toys! My problem with ch. 6 as it relates to power is they operate amps that have poor design that goes through bjt transistors like Jimmy Carter goes through liver pills! When you cant afford transistors or they run out because of idiots like that I can not help but wish them nothing but animosity. They go though bjt transistors like a fat kid eating cup cakes. Soon their will be nothing left but Chinese transistors. They should have transition to NXP LDMOS transistors. The guys using tubes that have 10K or more power have to have crazy power bills! I bet if they used a heat exchanger they could recover some of that heat to heat their home! LOL

Only 100 Watts peak? That’s less than the New York.

The trash talk is why I got away from CB radio and the other is you can't get pass the high powered radios for emergency requests and I don't care where you are all you get is the same trash .

@409novaman

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Wilson ham radio is the same. Hell even the 2 meter repeaters are full of aholes.

@AKA_Clunker

5 жыл бұрын

I really wish the FCC would crack down on people with splatter box stations and people over powering and talking dx on 27.185 it's beyond annoying

I hear those people in the Pennsylvania, Blair county area with six channels of bleed over. I'm just running a Tram 3500 Mag mount and a cheapo realistic radio that has been recapped.

Truckers tilt them forward to keep from smacking tree limbs and snapping there antennas.

Have no IDea!!

NO disrespect but mag mounts dont work well. You cannot beat a well grounded antenna. I use a 102 inch real actual quarter wave whip. Go to side band to get away from idiots with splatter boxes and you can actually get out with 12 to 20 watts on side band. My 146 has 20 watts out on side band. I have never touched the adjustment but only recapped it.

@mikesradiorepair

5 жыл бұрын

And what should a person do, cut a hole in the roof of their car? Absolutely nothing wrong with a magnetic mount antenna. Millions and millions of them in use and working perfectly.

@shartne

5 жыл бұрын

If you like mag mount OK. I dont they wont work for me at least mine dont maybe its too cheap. Cant get the SWR to go down with a mag mount. A fender mount or trunk mount that can actually fold down inside the trunk if you want to. They will ground good to actual metal. I noticed you didnt contact anyone though they dont work that great for me is all Im saying. I have a metal building by my drive way next door I can get out good on my 102 inch whip I ground the paint off the bed of the truck back by the tailgate and bolted bracket to bare metal with Electrical contact grease inside the bed side. The fender mount should be better than a mag mount in my humble opinion because it actually grounds to metal. I guess I should try a different mag mount. What brand of mag mount is that your using? It works for you it picks up good. The president has great ears. Did you tune it?

@jamms992

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikesradiorepair how much do you charge to work on radios

them goofs on channel 6 bleed over 12 channels

you actually get to play radio. not work on one

Get on with it mate!!!!

Well it beats a coat hanger dontcha no

dont feel bad for no answer ......i called out on all 40 channels today in my town in southwestern ky .....and did not receive no reply or copy from anybody............i wonder if i called for help on channel 9 if anybody would answer ?

@ericchilton3781

5 жыл бұрын

oh i forgot to say that there was no signal from anybody just static ....about the middle of the week i heard on 21 two guys talking about a mile away from me and that all ive heard .....so i know the radio is receiving and it will lite a dummy load lite on tx............

I WILL KEEP MY 2950CD AND MY WILSON 1000 ANTENNA MY 2950 SEEMS LIKE IT HAS BETTER CHANNEL REJECTION THEN THAT PRESIDENT.