Help hooking up CB

Sounds like you're shorted at the mount where it goes thru the bracket.

 

Sometimes the money spent of meters and cables would have paid for a shop to do an A-1 job. We fool ourselves into thinking we may save money, but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.

 

If your talking about SWR and seting up a Antenna there is no reason you can't do it yourself.

 

Sounds like a mount ground issue.
If you still cant scrape the paint off the mirror bracket(I dont recommend doing that anyways) run a single wire from a bolt on the mount to the truck frame. Looks like crap but sometimes its the only way, especially with a fiberglass body.

 

Once you get your CB radio installed, BEFORE you start using that radio -- check your SWR reading. If the SWR reading on a separate meter is 3.0 or higher, you have a connection problem. An excessive amount of your signal is not being transmitted but rather bouncing back to the radio. This is highly likely to damage your power transistors ("the finals") and will leave you with a radio that is incapable of transmitting more than a half mile if that far. Tuning the antenna DOES NOT FIX THE PROBLEM. Do not use that radio with an excessively high SWR. Get the connection problem fixed before you use the radio or (as others can attest) your radio can be damaged to the point of being practically worthless.
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The common causes of a connection problem include the following:
.1. a faulty grounding of the antenna mount such as antenna mount to door, door to frame or frame to battery negative terminal. Common in todays trucks.
.2. faulty coax such as signal shorting to ground or broken cable
.3. faulty antenna such as broken wire internally in the antenna or signal is somehow going to ground.
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Hopefully, someone is reading this and is learning how to avoid the problems that others have already experienced.

 

Glad you got it working. Thanks for letting us know.

 

Glad you stuck it out.

 

Glad you got it going. You're welcome...