Did you see the CB posts in the back or did those wires come from the plug-in harness? I ended up using twist caps (thinks that's what they're called) and twisting together the wires from the CB and the wires from the harness. No sense in me using electrical tape on those connections because I knew I wouldn't be in that truck very long.
If you saw the red and black posts, you can probably run the wires from your CB straight to those posts. If there is no power on those posts, check your fuse panel under the left side of dash, below the key. When I got in that temp truck, the previous driver had wired his to the harness and when he got out of it, he left the bare wires exposed and evidently they ended up making contact with each other because the fuse was blown. I replaced that fuse and had power to both sources (harness and posts).
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Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by aramil248, Jul 12, 2019.
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I just chose to return the new cobra I bought. I can deal without a cb. The last 3 trucks that I had my bearcat 880 in I barely heard anything on it. Some probably think I'm stupid but whatever. Thanks for the help though
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There are guys on here who have described "slip-seating" rigs that don't depend on any truck's built-in CB system. They have their radios in a box, and when they move into a new rig they place the radio/box on the passenger seat, plug the radio into a 12VDC port, run the antenna coax out of a partially opened window, and attach the antenna onto the mirror mount with some type of vice-grip adaptation.
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Maybe consider mounting elsewhere and use dbl sided tape..Run dedicated power to battery and yer own coax.....
I saw you brought radio back so i guess this reply is pointless..
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