Based on the picture, that ground wire looks to be attached to the antenna. That is a definite no no.

Think of your antenna as a direct extension of the coax center wire. It should not touch ground at all.

To test this, unplug the coax from your cb(leave the coax plugged into the antenna). Now with the unplugged end of the coax use a multitester to see if ther is continuity between the center wire and the shield wire(shield wire will be the outside metal sleeve). There should not be any continuity!! If there is then you have a short.

(note, still talking about the same unplugged end)
Next use your multitester to test the continuity between the shield wire(metal sleeve of coax) and any ground in your jeep. You should have continuity. This tells you that you have at least some amount of grounding which is good. No continuity here means your grounding is wrong.

Next strengthen your ground if you can. 1) make sure that the metal coax sleeve that goes into your antenna is grounded propery by removing paint from your bracket. Remember the metal sleeves on your coax are not the antenna, They are the antenna shield wire. 2) add more ground by taking a 10 gauge wire and attaching to one of the bracket bolts(sand off paint here too) and route this wire through the body to the frame.

 

Thank you gonna give this a shot in the AM

 

After playing around with everything I think its just the POS Cobra 75 the little metal box that the power goes to is very sensitive if you even touch it the static get 10x louder. I am removing it and picking up something else.

 

If there is nothing going on a lot of the time truckers (me being one) don't talk on the CB. You can go out to the hwy and just jump on and say "can I get a radio check." If it works someone will reply

 

I unscrewed the box and was moving it around in the air and I was picking conversations up

 

I Finally figured got it to work and received a good radio check today. I brought the radio's ground wire back inside the cabin and mounted it under the dashboard and it was coming in clear. I guess it was just getting too much interference going through the firewall

 

Glad you got it working, just curious, Where did you have the electrical ground first?

When I was installing my lights I wired the ground to a bolt near the firewall and the relay wouldn't work, the ground wasn't good enough... I had to reroute the ground wire to a different bolt.

It seems like not all the bolts going into metal on the jeep are necessarily good grounds.

 

Yea I don't know if it was a case of not good enough ground or if there was just too much interference but the initial wiring was directly to the positive and negative terminals on battery. Then I tried a bolt on the fire wall and last a fender bolt. Nothing worked until I brought the wire in the cabin.