Cb Antenna Cable Routing

The coaxial cable running from your radio to the antenna is very important.

Cb antenna cable routing.

Hey guys just picked up a k40 over the long weekend and thinking of how to run the coax cable. Cb coax cable is necessary to connect your antenna to your radio. Running the wire from the antenna to the cb. A bad ground will result in an un tunable antenna and sky high swr levels.

If you re running dual antennas you must use rg 59 coax. First time posting but i ve been using this site religiously since i bought my titan back in october. Where to run cb antenna cable. Joined dec 26 2009 15 posts.

Any other type of coax won t work with your dual antenna setup. Discussion starter 1 mar 25 2008. Erik from farpoint farms survival talks about the various places you can install your mobile cb radio setup including proper antenna placement to insure yo. Cb radio antenna cable routing and antenna mounting.

Ground your antenna mount. Jump to latest follow 1 17 of 17 posts. Typically this is about 18 foot of cable which according to some theory is the optimal length of cable to use regardless of how close the antenna is to the cb. Discussion starter 1 jun 25 2012.

Jump to latest follow 1 13 of 13 posts. If you re using a standard cb antenna i e anything except a no ground plane or ngp kit you ll need to make sure your antenna mount is solidly grounded to the vehicle s chassis. Joined sep 21 2007 2 827 posts. Everything you transmit and receive must travel along it s length.

Joined dec 18 2011 136 posts. When installing a cb you have a long coaxial cable that runs from the cb to the antenna. Getting 1 0 to 1 1 swr on the 5 and 1 1 to 1 4 on the 2 antenna mounted on the rear bumper i was getting a 2 1 swr on the low end. Going through the tailgate i ended up moving the cable routing from inside the frame through the firewall as i needed another foot or so to the tailgate mount.

Bmac sofa king cool. Discussion starter 1 dec 27 2009. Some people will purchase regular coax cable and try to use a t connector to install everything. While everything will wire up your dual antenna system simply won t work properly.

All too often the coax is ignored and performance suffers because of the lack of attention it receives. Jump to latest follow 1 9 of 9 posts.