Best 11 meter radio

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by Sgonza101, Sep 24, 2018.

  1. craig_sez

    craig_sez Road Train Member

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    You cant use 2 50 ohm coax with a t connect to cophase..You need 75 ohm coax to do that..
    I thought you ment you just unhooked the splitter from factory coax and used factory on 1 ant..
     
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  3. craig_sez

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    If you cant get your antenna running as it should with a 7ft..A 102 aint gonna make the diff..
     
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  4. J Rich

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    Where do you get 75 ohm coax?
     
  5. craig_sez

    craig_sez Road Train Member

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    Good question....Try times micro wave..Thats the only one i can think of..Tired and my eyes are blurry from yawning so much/hard..Try googleing it.
     
  6. craig_sez

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    I dont know of anyone who sells a good quality ant stud for that style kw other than fine tune cb..
     
  7. Sgonza101

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    So you would recommend only one antenna right? How does you're system work with just one antenna? Does it send signal to the other side?
     
  8. Ridgeline

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    They make a harness for this, any good shop should have it, it is the right length of coax setup to phase the antennas correctly.
     
  9. craig_sez

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    In most cases its the signal that really close to you thats affected the most(on opposite side of ant)...Signals further will not be affected near as much...Your bot gonna notice a huge diff..The # i have been told in tec/tx is approx 20% at best in diff..
    Even though they are not the correct spaceing apart,it will still work but just not as good as it can "with"proper spaceing..
    Ita twice the work n cost though for only a little gain..
     
  10. J Rich

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    Yes just 1 antenna. Mine works because I removed the factory co-phase coax. I have 1 18' piece of coax that goes to the drivers side. If I want to used the passenger side antenna I have to unhook the coax from the back of the radio. Then plug in the coax that goes to the passenger side antenna.
     
  11. Night Stalker10

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    Here’s an article from Firestick about co-phases antenna systems
    That might help you.

    CHOOSING SINGLE OR CO-PHASE ANTENNA SYSTEM

    It at least gives you a general idea about how dual antennas work. The only disappointing thing about the article to me was, that they didn’t explain that the 75 ohm coax running to the antenna has to be a certain length. The 75 ohm coax has to be cut a specific length in order for it to match up to the 50 ohm coax that runs to the radio. It’s best to buy the factory made co-phase coax harness like Ridge mentioned. You can always replace the pl-259 connectors with better quality ones if you don’t like the factory ones.
     
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