Clean VHF/CB radio installs

Is that squelch control and volume on top? Has the squelch been set right

 

yes, left and right respectively. To the best of my knowledge, I have set the squelch correctly

 

When you turn it up does the sound go away? Did you ever run the radio with an extremely high swr for any length of time? It is highly possible on that little radio it is electrical interference from the cigarette lighter, straight to battery might take it away which the new radio will help with. If you wanted to give one a try though they make electrical noise filters for power wires

 

Thanks, I'll have to check with the new radio. I have thought about noise filters and even ferrite beads as my HIDs make my cb go crazy....

 

Yeah those can cause a lot of radio interference too, straight to battery is the most efficient way to do things. However you can get static when connected to the battery of you have multiple things connected to it as well, so keep that in mind. It's called dirty power and happens when too many things are stacked on the battery and running, if you go straight to battery connected your HID's to an add a circuit and putting them on your headlight fuse or somewhere like that might give you a cleaner signal with them on

 

Well at some point I am just gonna have to settle, the HIDs have a relay harness that pulls straight from battery, so I dont think Ill be getting rid of that interference unless i change my light setup. But I figure that this brake booster noise was way more annoying and harder to mitigate. Its easier to turn off my headlights than stop braking lol

 

Well if that's the case you might could try the add a circuit on the cb power, put the power to the fuse box instead. This is an add a circuit by the way

 

I have close to the same thing. I use the Wilson antenna mag mount. Use the cigarette lighter. And no issues.both swr was 1.2

 

So I just went out side and ripped my ground out, and my SWR actually went down a little to 1.9 and 1.8 on channel 1 and 40 respectively. Any thoughts. I don't think this is a NGP setup and there is paint covering my mount so I have no idea how it's getting a ground

 

try connecting the ground directly to the bolt holding on the mount, don't take off any paint. On cb mounts there's different layers, the ones on the outside and inside. As long as it's connected on the bolt it can reach the inside of the metal and will improve your swr significantly, you don't have to take off any paint though

 

Also, I am only getting about 5 ohms of resistance on the main pass thru bolt on the cb fire ring setup. I wonder if there is a loose connection in the fire ring. I thought that the bolt should be a positive reading

 

Might as well check, that setup would be more stable with a

$43 pl259 USA made PL-259 improved double shielded rg-58u for firestik antenna K-8A 18-foot single cb/ham coax cable

pl259 stud and coax connection btw

 

and now I am getting continuity from ground all the way to the spring and antenna. well crap haha.

 

Well the coax is busted I think
Darn "fire ring"

 

Get coax with a

$43 pl259 USA made PL-259 improved double shielded rg-58u for firestik antenna K-8A 18-foot single cb/ham coax cable

pl259 connection and a pl259 stud! It's so much easier

 

Do you think I could just cut the fire ring off? However I don't think the regular

$43 pl259 USA made PL-259 improved double shielded rg-58u for firestik antenna K-8A 18-foot single cb/ham coax cable

pl259 will fit on those ditch brackets

 

How did u break it?

 

I have no clue

 

I guess when I tightened stud down, it got caught or something. I shouldn't get any reading of continuity on the lower side of the ring. I'm getting about 5 ohms all the way up the antenna

 

No make sure that u have all the rings and all in the right spot. It shows that the ground plane should be the only thing grounded. DON'T GROUND TO THE ADAPTER ITSELF.