Hello. New CB'er here

the person who started this thread is from canada. i was trying to give him a few ideas. but i think we are getting off topic a bit. lol

 

Not only is your antenna important, you have to have a good SWR and antenna ground... not electrical ground... the grounding for the antenna to get a nice low SWR. If your truck has crappy coax like my Volvo does, you will have to start from scratch.

 

Most people forget that you need great coax, too. Antenna(e) (if you want to pair them up) are only as good as the ground plane and quality of coax used.

Another surprisingly important factor is your microphone. Get an external speaker with talkback if your radio doesn't have it, that way you can hear what your outgoing sounds like. I have a Highgear Cobra with talkback external speaker. It's really nice. I picked up for $30 a Trucker Platinum Series noise cancelling microphone by road pro I think it is... it's SO MUCH nicer than my stock cobra mic. I like regular mics that have noise cancelling. I don't like the ones with batteries in them. I have two friends that have those and they just distort and drain batteries all the time.

I'm rambling. I shut up now

 

COAX ?

At 27 mhz coax under 50 foot is not a problem ...
PERSONLY I like LMR-400 but even it is overkill under 6 meters ....

This antenna is fed with LMR=400

 

Oh, I think I'm confused. I don't know the first thing about HAM radio. I thought this was about just plain Citizen's Band radios.

 

COAX is COAX it don't care HAM OR CB ....

 

true, but I was talking about portable applications.

As in, getting into a truck that has coax installed by the factory. Usually, it's cheap and will get very poor SWR readouts, even with one or a pair of really great antennae mounted.

 

NEVER had a problem with name coax on any band ...