On a Sunday, I take my son to his Taekwando lesson.  Parked up waiting for Samuel, so, mobile today doing some CB for a change, what with the storm and the strong Russian stations clearer than UK ones, it was very difficult when only running 4 watts. Unfortunately, I don’t speak Russian.

I can hear Rob 59ST02 in Greece clear as a bell on channel 40, from the island of Rhodes, but, other stations just stomp on my replies! So I never got an over with him.

With a Thunderpole whip on a mag mount, a slightly off SWR of 2:1, and all this heavy rain, I was really struggling.

For next time, I will see if I can get the SWR lower, I used to achieve an SWR of 1.2:1 when I used the same antenna on a roof rack mount.  Oddly, my SWR is higher with the mag mount.  I would have expected the other way around.

Until next time…

73 de Mark, 26TM998
“Spark Transmitter”

EDIT: The SWR is now down to 1.2:1.  It was found that there was some tarnish on the centre pin of the coax from the antenna.  Overhauling both ends brought the SWR down nicely.