This weekend was the first day of decent weather in my area after several days of storms and a lot of rainfall which was proceeded by months of relatively severe winter conditions including high winds and a number of snow storms across the Country so this was the first opportunity to take a look at my Home base CB Radio Antenna which has taken a bit of a beating this Winter.
The worst of it was that during these windy conditions the Coax cable which connects to the base of the antenna had worked itself loose so I have been without any access to the airwaves for several weeks before I took this opportunity to fix it.
At home, I use a venom half wave /Silver Rod which is one of the cheapest homebase antennas available and sadly the issue with them slipping is a bit of a known issue amongst CBers which has to do with the quality of the jubilee clips that it comes with. The job of the jubilliee clips is to grip each section of the antenna around the next section of aerial to clamp it into position. This is invariably where they fail.
Because of the excessive winds part of my antenna had slipped inside of itself and needed some attention to get it SWRed in properly again. This was easily achieved by adjusting the length of each section of antenna to make sure it was exactly the right length to work most efficiently.
I have had the aerial at roof height for over two years though and in that time it has had to deal with a lot of bad weather conditions so it was due some maintenance anyway. This was the right time to give everything a good 'once over'
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