Cascadia Coax

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by skibum_63, Jul 27, 2011.

  1. Jul 27, 2011 #1
    skibum_63

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    So does any one know , if the the coaxl on Cascadia are tied into into the in dash satalite radio? and if so which antanna, is used for the sat radio, , which is used for the cb. Been having trouble with both. CB, people can barely hear me,(yes it was peaked turned recently,but before i moved into this truck) and the sat radio, loses signal wheni'm headed in a northly direction, or have trees on the right side.
     
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  3. Jul 29, 2011 #2
    mike5511

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    As long as you are running the factory coax, you are not going to receive or xmit much more that one mile. It's junk and the only cure is a dedicated coax to a good antenna, not the cb,fm,am, weather band, sat combo antennas than come on the Cascadia.
     
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  4. Jul 29, 2011 #3
    WA4GCH

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    CORRECT ......

    I don't know how they think it is going to work but any multiband antenna
    is as best a dummy load .....
     
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  5. Jul 29, 2011 #4
    mike5511

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    Not only that but the coax goes through 8 junction boxes per side. That is a loss of a couple db at every junction! They lowered the junction boxes to four per side on our newer 2010s and it improved some. Still sucks though.
     
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  7. Aug 8, 2011 #5
    WX4JCW

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    The Satellite antenna on my 2009 Cascadia is not tied to the CB Coax, it runs through the Dashboard, and a word of warning on these cheap trucks, my satellite antenna was shorting against the fuse/SAM panel and caught fire (No Joke) when we got the truck, so if you have a Cascadia pull the glove compartment and check the antenna wire (it has a yellow connector there) and make sure its not shorting out
     
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  8. Aug 9, 2011 #6
    mike5511

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    Ours don't have the satellite ant. feature. I just threw that in there because they might as well have, they got everything else!
     
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