Wilson 5000's

**707 Lumpy Delaware** · 03-29-2012, 03:27 AM

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.

**High Voltage Mobile NJ** · 03-29-2012, 10:49 PM

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 .

**john doe** · 03-30-2012, 01:32 PM

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.

**High Voltage Mobile NJ** · 03-30-2012, 01:51 PM

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

**D-MAX 2112** · 03-30-2012, 06:09 PM

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.