Cb coax cable is necessary to connect your antenna to your radio.
Cb antenna cable routing.
When installing a cb you have a long coaxial cable that runs from the cb to the antenna.
If you re running dual antennas you must use rg 59 coax.
The coaxial cable running from your radio to the antenna is very important.
Where to run cb antenna cable.
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Ground your antenna mount.
Cb antenna cable routing.
Cb radio antenna cable routing and antenna mounting.
Discussion starter 1 mar 25 2008.
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Any other type of coax won t work with your dual antenna setup.
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.
Everything you transmit and receive must travel along it s length.
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Discussion starter 1 dec 27 2009.
While everything will wire up your dual antenna system simply won t work properly.
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Running the wire from the antenna to the cb.
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.
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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.
You can see all of our rg 59 style cb coax.
I have searched but can t find anything on where people are routing their cb antenna cable.
All too often the coax is ignored and performance suffers because of the lack of attention it receives.
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Some people will purchase regular coax cable and try to use a t connector to install everything.
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.
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Discussion starter 1 jun 25 2012.
A bad ground will result in an un tunable antenna and sky high swr levels.