Modern tractor and factory fitted cb Antenna

A good SWR doesn't mean you are getting max performance out of the antenna. Most of that antenna is blocked by the cab and partly by the trailer. So you will not receive or xmit as good as you would if your antenna was out in the clear. Now with it's own dedicated coax and a good antenna it should work a whole bunch better than the current practice of CB/fm/wx/tv all in one antennas and coax. If you have a top-loaded antenna that clears the roof it will work better. They mounted the antennas on the back of the new Cascadia too. The antenna is only a few inches above the roof line! I haven't checked any of them yet to know what kind of swr they have. I don't think they did for performance, I think they did it because the automatic truck washes tear the ones on the side of the sleeper off pretty regularly.

 

Are u a cb guy or a trk driver

 

It does what I want it to do. Im not trying to talk across the country. With my radio/antenna set up it does fine for me

 

Truck driver and CB user since way back in the early 70's. I like the back of the cab thing better than the current Cascadia set up. Many of our drivers have mounted their own antenna on the back of our trucks. If your coax is dedicated to the cb and not split off to everything else, it should be decent. You won't get the range out of it we used to in the older models, but it will probably be adequate.

 

I have galaxy too. Remounted mine onto mirror today. Havent tried it out yet being im on hometime. But with it behind cab it wasnt getting outvor recieving very well. I do know that I will have to get swr reset

 

Post us a pic of your antenna set-up. Some of the Cascadia's worked decent.....but it was very few. There is an antenna trimmer/matcher, or something in the dash of the Cascadia that can help to improve SWR if adjusted properly. Also we found places where the coax was not plugged in securely at one of the many junction boxes. We've had these Cascadias since 08. A few guys had decent working CBs, most did not.

 

WOW! That is not the way our 2015s are configured. Must have been to expensive of an option. It will be interesting to see if this proves to be the answer for these new trucks. Sure would make things easier!!

 

My 14 Cascadia has that same internal antenna set up and my rx/tx is crap and swrs are high,over 3 on 40 and close to 3 on 1 so I took my radio off of that setup and ran a mirror mount but while my swrs did drop to around 2.1 it still wasnt optimal. Now Im getting ready to buy a new radio so Im gonna br looking for ways to trim that swr down.