I recently installed a cobra CB into my 62 with a 3 foot firestik fiberglass along the hood line. Works pretty good- when I'm at my house and I listen to 19 or 9 I can usually hear truckers etc talking , and I'm a few miles from the interstate.
The problem starts here-- my buddy just got a midland CB in his Tahoe, and he mounted a firestik just like I did. He gets almost NO reception. When I'm trying to talk to him, we start to not be able to hear eachother at less than half a mile.
Right now, I'm thinking it might be his coax because he's using a 18 ft cord and so the extra cord is coiled up under his hood. Doesn't he need to cut and re-strip etc. his cord just enough so that it will reach his CB? because the firestik coax (which he is using) ships dis-assembled. You have to screw on the pl-259 connector and solder the tip. What I did was just cut the coax to length and then re-strip the end, put on the connector, and solder it. I've always heard that loops in a coax will kill reception...
Any advice? Thanks!
Mike
The problem starts here-- my buddy just got a midland CB in his Tahoe, and he mounted a firestik just like I did. He gets almost NO reception. When I'm trying to talk to him, we start to not be able to hear eachother at less than half a mile.
Right now, I'm thinking it might be his coax because he's using a 18 ft cord and so the extra cord is coiled up under his hood. Doesn't he need to cut and re-strip etc. his cord just enough so that it will reach his CB? because the firestik coax (which he is using) ships dis-assembled. You have to screw on the pl-259 connector and solder the tip. What I did was just cut the coax to length and then re-strip the end, put on the connector, and solder it. I've always heard that loops in a coax will kill reception...
Any advice? Thanks!
Mike