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Old 04-16-2017, 07:01 PM
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I decided to rehook up my CB Radio today. When I Hold the mic key, the dash lights up, headlights flash, and wipers go off. Looks like some sort of grounding issue, but it never did this when I had it hooked up last year. Thoughts?
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Originally Posted by biggreenjku
I decided to rehook up my CB Radio today. When I Hold the mic key, the dash lights up, headlights flash, and wipers go off. Looks like some sort of grounding issue, but it never did this when I had it hooked up last year. Thoughts?
Sounds like RF. Put some ferrite chokes on the coax to the antenna and power cable.
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be sure you antenna cable is not cut somewhere and be sure it is run by itself not next to any other wires. be sure the pl-259 are threaded on all the way too.



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