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    Wilson 5000's

    Has any body ever noticed how narrow banded wilson 5000 antenna's are ? It is so narrow banded that when I set the swr's to flat on the bowl, they ended up being 1.4 on channel. When I used to run the wilson 1000 I was able tune it flat from channel 1-40. Why is that, is it because the 5000 has different impedence or is it just an engineering flaw they had. I spoke to alot of guys running the 5000 and they noticed the same problem with them being narrow banded.

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    most of the wilson antenna's out there you have to cut off 1/4 to 1 inch off of the bottom of the whip to get a flat match on some aplications not all . for starters make sure you run the 18 feet of coax recomended. you might have to place the antenna on different areas on ya roof . not every car or truck has a great match . i never had a problem with the wilson being narrow banded , that is not true at all . i can get a 1.0 on like 60 plus channels before it starts climbing up . if anything that antenna is very broadbanded the totall opposite. make sure all ya connections are good . watch out for that crazy non conducting tape they have on now at the bottom of the magnet mounts . they need to be ripped off to get a good ground . thats the only problem i had with them .

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    when running just the radio i get a flat match across all 40 .but with the amp on i can only get about a 25 channel spead of acceptable swr .i tune for ch28 as thats where i shoot skip when i get the chance .with a 500 watt deadkey i get a 1.1-1.2 swr on that channel .
    by the time i get to ch1 i wont even use the amp down that low .its a trade off .i cant get the whole 40 spread low enough to run my 500 watt deadkey .
    by the time i get to ch1 with the amp on my swr is about a 1.7 and i wont run it like that .

    sometimes its all in the amp tuning too.

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    try using an 18 foot jumper from the radio to the box stay away from 9 footers . 12 is ok 18 is better . if you have a driver box before the bigger box, a 6 foot or a 9 foot jumper is fine between the boxs. sometimes these class ab-1 linears dont have the best tuning along with some of these so called class c amplifier builders now a days , lol lol lol lol

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    My wilson 5k is narow banded.... HIGH VOLTAGE.. is that a mag mnt 5k? I have tuned 4 antenna's on my fag mag and only one that tunes like crap is the Wilson 5k.

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    someone dont know
    by BOOTYMONSTER » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:07 pm
    how about an option to delete a thread we make ?
    ill admit im at least a part time idiot . sometimes i do double post when editing a post .
    some may find this hard to believe , but ....... sometimes i even get pissed and make a post i regret later . hard to believe huh?? lol

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    I dont know shit!..Thank you

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    mines a mag mount

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    where can I buy a 55 antenna

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    this is the first time im hearing that a wilson antenna will not tune properly. weird !!!!!

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