Tuning my Predator 10k

**Silverado 996** · 05-23-2013, 04:05 AM

Originally Posted by JesseJamesDallas

Mostly a competition thing...Your not going to receive any better with one. But your audio out will be louder to people in front of you...And the people rest of the way around you probably won't hear anything...So think of a Bounce-back set-up as a set of headlights. Everything in front of you get's lit-up like daylight, and nothing but darkness everywhere else...

That was a perfect way to explane it. So, keydown rigs with multiple antennas and 100k of power setup like that..bounce back, because they want everything they've for got going forward to beat the other cat they going up against...makes perfect since.

**619 NJ** · 05-27-2013, 06:25 PM

So I did my antenna on the Yukon today, and I have to say, I put the whip in the antenna about an inch from the top just to start, and threw it on the roof. It was 1.1 on ch 1 and 1.2 on ch 40!!! That's using the Galaxy SWR meter. I'm going to get it on a Palstar or MFJ but damn! First shot! I'm using a Predator Bad to the Bone with a 22inch shaft.

619 the Chef choppin' lips and deep-frying Mud Ducks in the Yellin' Yukon and I'm gone...

**Silverado 996** · 05-27-2013, 06:45 PM

Congrats 619! When are you gonna start cooking up them ducks?? Quack! Quack!

**619 NJ** · 05-27-2013, 07:20 PM

Hehehe soon enough Silverado. Soon enough. By this time next year ill have a 370 amp DC power alternator and a 16 pill in here.

619 the Chef choppin' lips and deep-frying Mud Ducks in the Yellin' Yukon and I'm gone...

**JesseJamesDallas** · 05-27-2013, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by 619 NJ

Hehehe soon enough Silverado. Soon enough. By this time next year ill have a 370 amp DC power alternator and a 16 pill in here.

619 the Chef choppin' lips and deep-frying Mud Ducks in the Yellin' Yukon and I'm gone...

Or you can do like I did and stick 3-300amp alternators under the hood, and have room to run a 32 pill once you out-grow the 16 pill!

**619 NJ** · 05-28-2013, 07:09 AM

That's a sick set up! Looks awesome! And I'm sure it talks wherever the fuck it wants.

619 the Chef choppin' lips and deep-frying Mud Ducks in the Yellin' Yukon and I'm gone...

**JesseJamesDallas** · 05-28-2013, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by 619 NJ

That's a sick set up! Looks awesome! And I'm sure it talks wherever the fuck it wants.

619 the Chef choppin' lips and deep-frying Mud Ducks in the Yellin' Yukon and I'm gone...

As long as I can here them...I can get back...no problem. Just running a 16 pill DM, but I set-it up for a 32 pill...not that I will ever get one, plenty satisfied with the 16 for now.

**Silverado 996** · 05-29-2013, 06:39 AM

I have a question for you Jesse. Yesterday afternoon you were talking to 711 in Virginia. I heard him loud and clear, but I never heard you talking to him. Why is that? I can hear and talk to others out of the state, but I can't hear some texas base stations or moblie units?? I'm not talking about locals stations... Talking about stations 300 miles away like you and others.

Thanks

**JesseJamesDallas** · 05-29-2013, 05:03 PM

300 miles is too far for local, but not far enough for skip (in a nut-shell)...Sometimes...very rarely tho we get what I call "short-skip", when that happens you can talk to guys anywhere from 150 to 200 miles away...But it doesn't happen that often.

I'm sure someone knows what that's called, or how the atmosphere has to be to get it, but I don't...I just enjoy it when it does happen!

**Silverado 996** · 05-29-2013, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by JesseJamesDallas

300 miles is too far for local, but not far enough for skip (in a nut-shell)...Sometimes...very rarely tho we get what I call "short-skip", when that happens you can talk to guys anywhere from 150 to 200 miles away...But it doesn't happen that often.

I'm sure someone knows what that's called, or how the atmosphere has to be to get it, but I don't...I just enjoy it when it does happen!

Roger that, thanks.