jkkat

Got the radio and a portable cb from Joe's and picked up the antenia set-up from radio Shack.

I Performed some custom adjustments on the antenia bracket and painted it black. Then got the radio installed as far as placement and where wiring was to go. I got the Antenia wire run through the rear window washer sprayer hose gromet then down inside to the passanger side of the center console.
got it all set-up and hid the little box under there as well. Got the antenia bracket mounted and antenia tuned to the radio and now works well.







Kat

KenB1010

I wired mine to the cig lighter on the left side so that the CB would be switched. It works great.

jkkat

so far so good, no noise saturday when wheelin.

joeschonert

so what do you mean antenna tuned ? and how do you do that ?

scouter4life

Looks good, thanks for the write-up. Which antenna is that?

scouter4life

I was able to tune mine when I installed my Match Maker to use the Firestik for both CB and local radio. The Match Maker has fine tuning screws and was able to bring my SWR from 1.4-2.0 down to 1.2-1.4. It also gave me a stronger signal on the local channels.

jkkat

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102661&cp=2032052.2032075.203 2078.2032098&parentPage=family

Radio Shack

Stainless Steel Mobile CB Antenna


$24.99
Model: 21-988
Catalog #: 21-988

riverzendz

Any chance you take a picture of where you hid the "box"?

wayland1985

Weird... my cigarette lighter wires were different colors

TeraFlex

Sweet! I have that same CB and was wondering how/where I was going to install it!