CB radio
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From: Alpharetta
CB radio
i've been wanting to put a cb set up on my truck for a while. i had one on my jeep and that was easy enough to run the co-ax cable. how do y'all run the cables from the antenna to the cb?
thanks.
keith
thanks.
keith
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i run the cable behind the dash, under the carpet to the door sill, then through a hole i drilled just big enough for the connector to pass through, then along the frame and up the very front of the bed to where the antenna is mounted
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From: Prince George
On my 92 F250 regular cab, my CB is mounted just under the dash, so the coax runs on the passenger side, under the rubber carpet, behind the seat and through a rubber grommet already in the floor. The hole there is large enough to fit the connector through no problem, then it runs along the frame, up the front of the bed to where the antenna is located. Just like fishy, but through the grommet. Works nice.
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For what it is worth, if you want best possible performance out of a antenna, you need to get it in free space and away from cab when bed mounted. The best place is on the roof and the next best place would be at end of bed on the rail because the presence of the metal cab in field effects antenna performance and since they are what we call negative gain antenna if they are less than 1/4 wav long (9 feet at CB freqs) they have a attenuation of both xmitted and received signals which is made worse by the presence of the cab body in the field. CB antennas are basically radiating dummy loads unless they are atleast 9 feet in length.
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From: Elkhart IN
on mine, i mounted it just behind the seat under the slider window, ran the wire down through the ruber grommet, and up to the top of myh roll bar. got really good transmiting when it was tuned. just keep them up as high as posibble.
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it is important though. I mounted mine on the side of my tool box and it doesnt get the best reception. closerange is fine, but long range isnt so stellar...
my coax is set up like Fishy's
my coax is set up like Fishy's
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If you pull the carpet back there should be some rubber gromets that you can cut a hole in and put the coax cable through that hole. Mine(94 F-150) was pretty simple.
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great. i'll take a look for those grommets. when i said i wasn't concerned about any thing but the cables what i meant was, i dont' need any help with that. i just needed routing info. i've set up many cb radios and got that down. thanks everyone for your help
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I ran mine under the dash, through the firewall, under the cab along the framerail and up the back of the cab to the roof. I have a magnetic antenna, (which sucks), and it came with plenty of coax to do it this way.
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From: Elkhart IN
Originally Posted by awu_gigabyte
am i the only one who ran mine through the door jams?