Sting25 motivated me to put my CB antenna in the stock location, so I figured I'd share what I did with everyone. Now let me start by saying I have almost 0 RF knowledge, and winged a lot of it.
One thing I THINK you may be able to do is set this up on the driver's side if you get a second antenna housing.
Parts Needed:
Step 2: Unscrew AM/FM antenna base. I used my RoboGrips to to this. The housing will fall out
Step 3: Hit the top of the AM/FM antenna base with a hammer to slide it out of the antenna base housing
POINT OF NO RETURN (kinda) Skip this step if you are installing the antenna on the driver's side
Step 4: Cut AM/FM coax and feed back through grommet. This is a great place for you to bring your CB coax through.
Step 5: Remove the outer sheath of the coax
Step 6: Unbraid the braided wire and twist into a one wire
Step 7: Splice braided wire, terminate 10 awg with a ring terminal
Step 8: Terminate center conductor on ring terminal
Step 9: Grind off nipple from antenna housing. This will allow the washers to lay flat.
Step 10: Assemble the antenna assembly in this order
Step 12: Feed the new antenna assembly up through the fender where it was originally
Step 13: Place black washer that came with antenna mount & screw on antenna mount
Step 14: Feed the terminated 10awg through the fender to under the hood
Step 15: Bolt 10awg terminal down using fender torx screw
Step 16: Feed excess coax back into cabin, replace the grommet
Like I said before, I don't know how well this really works. On my Cobra 75, the meter reads pretty low, but I don't really know what it means (I haven't read the manual, nice huh?) I was trying to test it out with my buddy's, but I we don't really know how good his is set up either. Time to invest in a SWR meter!
Special thanks to Sting25, he really helped me out with this. If you have any suggestions please post them up. I'm all about getting this thing set up right.
One thing I THINK you may be able to do is set this up on the driver's side if you get a second antenna housing.
Parts Needed:
- 3/8" x 2" bolt with 24 threads
- a few 3/8ths washers
- a few 3/8ths nylon washers
- a 3/4 inch nylon bushing with 3/8ths hole (I fond it at Lowe's in the specialty parts bins)
- one 3/8ths electrical ring terminal that I pulled the plastic off of (goes around bolt for hooking the center of the coax to)
- the top of a cb stud mount
- Small piece of 10 awg wire
- 10 awg ring terminal
Step 2: Unscrew AM/FM antenna base. I used my RoboGrips to to this. The housing will fall out
Step 3: Hit the top of the AM/FM antenna base with a hammer to slide it out of the antenna base housing
POINT OF NO RETURN (kinda) Skip this step if you are installing the antenna on the driver's side
Step 4: Cut AM/FM coax and feed back through grommet. This is a great place for you to bring your CB coax through.
Step 5: Remove the outer sheath of the coax
Step 6: Unbraid the braided wire and twist into a one wire
Step 7: Splice braided wire, terminate 10 awg with a ring terminal
Step 8: Terminate center conductor on ring terminal
Step 9: Grind off nipple from antenna housing. This will allow the washers to lay flat.
Step 10: Assemble the antenna assembly in this order
- Terminated center conductor on the 3/8" bolt
- Metal Washer
- Nylon Washer
- Nylon bushing
- Antenna housing
Step 12: Feed the new antenna assembly up through the fender where it was originally
Step 13: Place black washer that came with antenna mount & screw on antenna mount
Step 14: Feed the terminated 10awg through the fender to under the hood
Step 15: Bolt 10awg terminal down using fender torx screw
Step 16: Feed excess coax back into cabin, replace the grommet
Like I said before, I don't know how well this really works. On my Cobra 75, the meter reads pretty low, but I don't really know what it means (I haven't read the manual, nice huh?) I was trying to test it out with my buddy's, but I we don't really know how good his is set up either. Time to invest in a SWR meter!
Special thanks to Sting25, he really helped me out with this. If you have any suggestions please post them up. I'm all about getting this thing set up right.