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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Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by Sgonza101, Sep 24, 2018.
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Sgonza101 Thanks this.
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Where do you get 75 ohm coax?
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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.
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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.
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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.. -
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. -
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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