CB Wiring

BaddestCross

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That, and I remember reading somewhere that a CB needs 18' to work properly and if you need to add more, you have to add in 9' lengths or something crazy to tune the antenna properly.

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JK_Dave

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BaddestCross said:
18' for the 2 door... Depending on how you route it, there won't be much left over. Loosely coil the extra and you'll be fine.


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That's incorrect. Coiling the coax cable is the second leading cause to a poor signal behind a bad ground. If the OP has extra cable left over, which he will with 18' in a 2-door, he should try to run the cable a different way (such as through the driver side roll bar padding).
 
Mikecal9985

Mikecal9985

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JK_Dave said:
That's incorrect. Coiling the coax cable is the second leading cause to a poor signal behind a bad ground. If the OP has extra cable left over, which he will with 18' in a 2-door, he should try to run the cable a different way (such as through the driver side roll bar padding).
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Well I've ordered the 18' already so I guess I'll just have to figure out another way of routing it...you think I should have gone with the 9' instead? Or would that have been way to short routing it the way I showed in the pic above?


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chuck79

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If it's good cable rg-6 for instance coiling it will not matter. It is shielded coax. I think the best thing you can do is buy a couple uhf connectors on eBay and watch a utube video on how to solder the connector. Then cut the cable to length plus a service loop. If you buy two you can call the first one a practice if it doesn't turn out well. They are cheep.


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jeeeep

jeeeep

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I found my cb cable at a garage sale, 25'
put the excess in the tailgate no issues with sending or receiving.
my swr levels are low.
4' firestick...also from the same garage sale
If the cable is shielded just stick the excess somewhere out of the way
 
BaddestCross

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Well, all I can say is that from my experience installing my CB in my 2 door, 18' got me from the tailgate to the glovebox running under the rollcage padding down into my glovebox and I only had about 1-2' left over. I run a 4' Firestik and my SWR is less than 2 across all channels. YMMV.

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Mikecal9985

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BaddestCross said:
Well, all I can say is that from my experience installing my CB in my 2 door, 18' got me from the tailgate to the glovebox running under the rollcage padding down into my glovebox and I only had about 1-2' left over. I run a 4' Firestik and my SWR is less than 2 across all channels. YMMV.

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That's what I needed to know!! What did you do with the left over 1-2'?


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BaddestCross said:
Well, all I can say is that from my experience installing my CB in my 2 door, 18' got me from the tailgate to the glovebox running under the rollcage padding down into my glovebox and I only had about 1-2' left over. I run a 4' Firestik and my SWR is less than 2 across all channels. YMMV.

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I've seen a few posts about running it under the rollcage padding. Just out of curiosity, why? I ran mine under the carpet from the tailgate. Seemed like the easiest and most direct route...
 
Mikecal9985

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The Cock Father said:
I've seen a few posts about running it under the rollcage padding. Just out of curiosity, why? I ran mine under the carpet from the tailgate. Seemed like the easiest and most direct route...
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Not sure why, the only reason I can think of is so it stays dry if you get some water in your Jeep or something along those lines. I don't know, just a thought


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BaddestCross

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The Cock Father said:
I've seen a few posts about running it under the rollcage padding. Just out of curiosity, why? I ran mine under the carpet from the tailgate. Seemed like the easiest and most direct route...
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TBH, it was what was recommended to me in several instances and I never considered any other way. If it's easy to run under the carpet, that would be shorter. Only thing I could think would be a problem is that you would then for sure have more left over from the 18' that may cause SWR issues when you have to bundle the excess.

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BaddestCross

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Mikecal9985 said:
If you could that would be great!! Thanks man


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When I said later, I didn't mean for it to be THIS later. Sorry... You probably don't need the photos anymore, but here you go:

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As you can see, there's barely any coax cable left in the glove box. The silver box you see zip tied to the bottom brace is the CB head unit.
 
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Mikecal9985

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BaddestCross said:
When I said later, I didn't mean for it to be THIS later. Sorry... You probably don't need the photos anymore, but here you go:

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As you can see, there's barely any coax cable left in the glove box. The silver box you see zip tied to the bottom brace is the CB head unit.
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Awesome!!! Thanks man! I haven't started installing anything yet.


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