More CB/ Antenna questions.

Leave the expensive antenna alone. They are designed to sererate you from your hard earned cash.

Go with a Firestik or WIlson Silver Load antenna. Get the longest one you can run.

Get the best feedline (coax) you can. RG-8X. Beldon, ProComm and Times Microwave are the best.

One is all you need.

 

buy a coil spring type monkey antenna,just one big one needed,it's the best I have ever used,you can hear twice as far with it and get out great. less noise also.

 

Yes you will need a heavy duty mount and single coax cable, best thing to do is go to a trucker cb shop and have them mount it and match the swr. Look for the big super trucks in the truck stops,they have monkey antennas alot.

 

Don't buy the monkey made. Or the stryker or any of the open coil antennas. Get the Firestik or Wilson Silver Load antenna.

If you want to run the factory coax you'll need 2. I'd run a high quality single coax and leave the stock stuff alone.

Buck and a half you entitled to your opinion but until you can back them up with some experience that is all it is. And your opinion is wrong.

I build my own antennas and offer proven antenna theory as proof. Not to mention QSL Cards.



One of my homemade antennas. ( The one I made the above contact with in fact.)




The point of all this is that these $100 antennas work good but you can easily out perform them for $30.

You only need to add grounding wires/straps if you need them. If they are un-needed you can do more harm (to your signal) then good.

 

The ground provided by the coax is not enough. But only add grounding if it is needed.

 

I am very familiar with what I'm talking about,we have a great cb stereo technician here in madison me.,been a tech for over 20 years.he works on alot of drivers radios in maine here. he does all brands and builds radios. he does one whole fleet of 150.000 petes here on the galaxy radios. The last monkey antenna he put on my last truck could here for over 20 miles with my uniden pc68,that was tuned by him. I could talk almost that far. I have relayed more messages to other drivers that could not hear them that far away. I just said it because its the best reception I have ever had in 38 yrs out here. everyone has their own opinion,I just know from him and my friends out here on the road. That's why I told him to go to a trucker cb shop.like live wire,if you know who they are. I can also refer him to my friend here in maine. He will talk to him on the phone if he wants. i have freds bus. card at home but not on me. It's up to him,I just thought he might want the best out there. Francis and firesticks are a thing of the past. I don;t run a linear either.