I've got a CB in my 40 and I can't hear anybody! Granted, I wouldn't imagine the CA bay area has high CB traffic given that its at the end of the interstates, but I've been listening and mike-checking on 19 for a couple days during my commute and am getting not a peep.
I'm wondering if my antenna is the problem - I'm not a radio guru, so bear with me.
My antenna is mounted on the rear of the truck, on the tire carrier. There is paint in the way of a good ground path (its a rear-view-mirror-clamp-on-job), so I ran a ground wire from the antenna bracket to the body to ground it out. The antenna itself is a 2foot fiberglass whip, at the rear left corner of the truck - it protrudes a lil bit above the highest metal parts of the hardtop, and is sitting directly in front of the corner window. I thought this would be a good location given the restrictions imposed by the height of my garage, have good visibility, etc.
Anyway, before I added the ground wire I heard some spanish being spoken on on ch10 (barely, mind you) but that was it - I thought adding the wire would put me in the clear. But nope, didn't help, I haven't heard anyone for days now. Since I don't know what I'm doing, I've been trying it manually squelching up and down as well as with the automatic "DSC" thing on. RF gain set at 50%, because i dunno how to really set that guy.
Weatherband works fine, great even.
Ideas?
I'm wondering if my antenna is the problem - I'm not a radio guru, so bear with me.
My antenna is mounted on the rear of the truck, on the tire carrier. There is paint in the way of a good ground path (its a rear-view-mirror-clamp-on-job), so I ran a ground wire from the antenna bracket to the body to ground it out. The antenna itself is a 2foot fiberglass whip, at the rear left corner of the truck - it protrudes a lil bit above the highest metal parts of the hardtop, and is sitting directly in front of the corner window. I thought this would be a good location given the restrictions imposed by the height of my garage, have good visibility, etc.
Anyway, before I added the ground wire I heard some spanish being spoken on on ch10 (barely, mind you) but that was it - I thought adding the wire would put me in the clear. But nope, didn't help, I haven't heard anyone for days now. Since I don't know what I'm doing, I've been trying it manually squelching up and down as well as with the automatic "DSC" thing on. RF gain set at 50%, because i dunno how to really set that guy.
Weatherband works fine, great even.
Ideas?