Cb Antenna Cable Routing

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

Cb antenna cable routing.

Discussion starter 1 dec 27 2009. 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. A bad ground will result in an un tunable antenna and sky high swr levels. Jump to latest follow 1 17 of 17 posts.

First time posting but i ve been using this site religiously since i bought my titan back in october. You can see all of our rg 59 style cb coax. Everything you transmit and receive must travel along it s length. Hey guys just picked up a k40 over the long weekend and thinking of how to run the coax cable.

Running the wire from the antenna to the cb. 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. Joined sep 21 2007 2 827 posts. Any other type of coax won t work with your dual antenna setup.

Cb coax cable is necessary to connect your antenna to your radio. Discussion starter 1 jun 25 2012. Jump to latest follow 1 13 of 13 posts. Ground your antenna mount.

I have searched but can t find anything on where people are routing their cb antenna cable. Where to run cb antenna cable. If you re running dual antennas you must use rg 59 coax. All too often the coax is ignored and performance suffers because of the lack of attention it receives.

Discussion starter 1 mar 25 2008. 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. While everything will wire up your dual antenna system simply won t work properly. Some people will purchase regular coax cable and try to use a t connector to install everything.

Cb antenna cable routing. 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. Joined dec 18 2011 136 posts. Joined dec 26 2009 15 posts.

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. When installing a cb you have a long coaxial cable that runs from the cb to the antenna.