Wiring A Cb Radio Antenna

When you consider how to hook up a cb radio be sure to use thickly insulated coaxial cable coated to protect against the weather such as the rg 38 or rg 58 cable and stainless steel or metal connectors such as the motorola type or pl 259 which has a large connector.

Wiring a cb radio antenna. The performance of the antenna and thus the radio can be affected as much as 25 by the coaxial connection. Kits come with all the parts including mounts coax cables and bolts or nuts for easy installation. The positive wire needs a 13 8vdc power source and the negative wire is your ground wire. All cb radios are equally powered out of the box but not always the same price.

Hey guys hopes this helps just an example of a way to do it. 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. Home built antenna experiments on cb radio 5 august 1992. In this video i show my experience with installing and using a cb radio.

Power wire hookup battery or cigarette plug. Cb radio antenna dipole antenna. 20 for the radio and 80 for. The majority of cb radios have two wires a positive wire red and a negative wire black.

Testing the cb antenna ground. One of our brilliant customers found a unique way to mount a 2 ft firestik on his honda civic. We carry fiberglass and stainless steel parts for cb antennas ranging from four inches to four feet long. It s easy to build your own cb radio base station antenna with a piece of 50 ohm coax cable such as rg 58 and 20 30 feet of wire any gauge.

Cb radio mic included antenna may already have coax cable coax cable may already be connected to the mount magnetic mount tapping clips 1 antenna spring so it ll flex in lieu of snapping shattering note. If you need to know how to use one read this article on testing for continuity an easy way to test your antenna s ground is check continuity between the cb antenna mount and your vehicle ground because if the antenna mount is well grounded so is your antenna. Connex 33hp atc tuned and peaked magnum sx 175 200 watts peak. You ll need a multi meter to check your cb antenna s ground.

I ve heard that you should spend 100 on your first setup. Shop our complete line of cb antennas including complete kits fiberglass magnetic and more to get you up and running. The cb radio i used was the cobra 19 ultra iii which seemed to be a good quality low cost radio. When hooking up a cb radio one of the many decisions to figure out is how to wire it up for power.

Installing a cb antenna on a honda civic.