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Subject: SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:24 pm
So I come home and find this bad boy has been delivered
SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 & My SWR Meter.
Just waiting for my rig now.
Northern Crusader Major contributor
Call Sign : M0GVZ / 26CT1760 Posts : 530 Times Thanked : 35 Join date : 2019-11-13 QTH or Location : IO94SA Equipment Used : Icom 7300, TS480, President McKinley, Albrecht AE6110, CRT Mike Age : 53
Subject: Re: SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:27 pm
Looks like a special edition of the Performer 5000 and a quick Google confirms that. It's one of the best performing antennas there is for mobile.
Although the Sirio Magmount does a good job you may want to consider drilling a hole in the roof and using a fixed body mount or a Diamond K400 lip mount. One of the downsides of magmounts is forgetting it's on when you go to the Maccy D's drive-thru and hit the overheight barrier, the antenna topples over, falls off the side of the car and goes through a window .
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Subject: Re: SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:04 am
Northern Crusader wrote:
Looks like a special edition of the Performer 5000 and a quick Google confirms that. It's one of the best performing antennas there is for mobile.
Although the Sirio Magmount does a good job you may want to consider drilling a hole in the roof and using a fixed body mount or a Diamond K400 lip mount. One of the downsides of magmounts is forgetting it's on when you go to the Maccy D's drive-thru and hit the overheight barrier, the antenna topples over, falls off the side of the car and goes through a window .
Ha ha..... I wasn’t planning on driving around with it. It’s more of a park up, pull it out the car and plop it on the roof type of thing.
It’s like 6ft tall......
courtney New Member
Call Sign : 26-CT-4007 Posts : 5 Times Thanked : 0 Join date : 2021-02-22 QTH or Location : London Equipment Used : President Mckinley, President Grant 2, CRT SS9900
Subject: Re: SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:30 pm
How did you get on with the swr on the performer? I cant get lower than 1.4 on a mag mount?
Seasick Contributor
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Subject: Re: SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:50 pm
courtney wrote:
How did you get on with the swr on the performer? I cant get lower than 1.4 on a mag mount?
An SWR reading of 1:1.4 is good. A short antenna will have a very low impedance, so any SWR reading, other than a very high one, on a short antenna is going to be the result of engineering not a real reading.
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53 Prefect Senior contributor
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Subject: Re: SIRIO PERFORMER RED DEVIL FIGHTER P 5000 Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:32 pm
That SWR meter has to be one of the longest selling items in CB.... I can remember buying one as part of my clandestine kit back in 1980. Dove to the store in Enfield. It was packed in there. Just told them I wanted to buy a CB radio, and everything to start up. Guy says, what makes you think we sell CB Radios? I just laughed. Gave him 30 quid, he gave me a pre tuned antenna, one of those SWR meters, and I had to follow him in my car to a lockup! There he gave me a box with a Midland 3001 in it. Fun times!
And, thanks to you, I just remembered, out in my garage somewhere, there is a Wilson 1000 antenna. I must go retrieve it. Best 11m mobile antenna I ever had!
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