Cb Antenna Wiring Diagram

Make sure your cb mic is plugged in securely.

Cb antenna wiring diagram. Our popular booklet measuring swr and things every cb er should know is now available on our website as a printable pdf document. 20 for the radio and 80 for. Long wire antenna for cb 11 meter use. Check for breaks or damage to the plug and cord.

Be sure you are pressing the cb microphone button all the way in. The free online version has been reformatted to fit 8 5 x 11 paper 18 pages. Check the pins in the radio for damage as well. Power wire hookup battery or cigarette plug.

For cb this means the wire must be a multiple of 11 1m or 36ft 6 5. After installing your cb and antenna use the swr meter to adjust your antenna and tune it to the cb and the vehicle. The customer had originally purchased an mk748r trunk lip mount but didn t like the look of it rather than sticking with the mount he drilled a hole in the trunk and mounted the cb antenna with a firestik k4 stud directly to the lid. In the 1 4 wave vertical vs the 5 8 wave the latter has some improvement on keeping a lower angle of radiation for working mobiles and it puts a bit more power on the horizon for skip but this 1 4 wave ground plane when it comes to omni directional is the classic cb antenna and when properly installed and fed will work just as good as a high dollar whatever.

This is part two of the video series on how to install a basic cb radio installation. A resonant long wire only requires that the length of the wire is approximately resonant at the frequency of operation. All cb radios are equally powered out of the box but not always the same price. So its pretty simple but can be confusing the radio is a cobra 29 lx dead keys 1 5 watts and swings up to 25 the box is a midnight special 250 and the meter is from radio shack paid 40 00.

The positive wire needs a 13 8vdc power source and the negative wire is your ground wire. While a properly tuned antenna will result in strong radio performance failing to properly tune your antenna can result in poor performance and can even damage your radio from excessive radio frequency heat that is reflected back into the radio instead of transmitted out. An article written by tech237 simon the most practical and simple to make long wire antenna is the resonant variety. When hooking up a cb radio one of the many decisions to figure out is how to wire it up for power.

If it is a power mic or echo mic make sure there is a battery in it. Installing a cb antenna on a honda civic. The majority of cb radios have two wires a positive wire red and a negative wire black. In this weeks video i show how to install the cb antenna and run the coaxial cable up to the cab.

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