For the folks with the all in one kit from cool tech, did they send it to you in 2 boxes? I received one box on friday but no antenna and no gate bracket. Should I be expecting this to come in a separate box? or should I give them a call...

The other thing, I plan to put the dash connecting part in the center between the shifter and the storage box. Would it be better to extend the actual 5 prong CB wire? or move the box closer and extend the 12v wire instead.

EDIT: the other thing, do any of you know where I can find a cap or the correct name for it? Basically want to put something on the connector that you attach the hand held part to when the cb is not connected so dust and water doesn't get in as easy. Seems it will get messy quick when doorless/topless

 

Fully agree... highly recommend the spring.

OP - nice clean install!

 

Just so you know, that one from Teraflex is only made for the right (passanger side) vehicle. I have one and i love it. well worth the money. But as I learn recently when I was intalling my HAM radio, they do not make one for the Left side (driver's side). That one above is made of stainless steele and its about $75.00. The teraflex bracket lists between $27.00 to $34.00... Just wanted to help others understand that.
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So I managed to get the antenna installed before it started raining way to much to be working on the Jeep. Problem is the ground... I got the all in one kit from tech cool but the circle ring for the ground wire, the instructions say to mount it on the gatemount but the hole is smaller then the part that feeds through the stainless attachment point, and is also smaller then the threaded part of the antenna. Am I missing something here? or did they just attach the wrong size of ring connector on the end of the ground wire.

 

I used that ring end to attach to a bolt in the jeep, one of the subwoofer mount bolts actually.

I think I got another ring thing from radio shack which I used on the bare wire end to attach it to the antenna mount bolt.

EDIT: Vice Versa actually, just looked at my pics

The end you're talking about:


Radio shack end to bolt in jeep:

 

Yes! that's the one. The picture makes perfect sense. I was trying to stick it on the bolt that actually held the antenna to the bracket. Thank you BLK08JK for posting the picture!

 

So one more question. Install went smooth. Got the antenna tuned and my meter says I am at 1.15 - 1.2 for both. So I am happy with that. The instructions say to run the ground for the unit to the battery. I generally ground off the closest bolt that will provide ground. But I didn't want to screw it up so I ran the ground all the way to the battery as that is were I have my Positive ran to.

Problem is that I get random shreeking that happens every time I do something electric. Like turn on/off my headlights, dome light etc... Could this be from the + and - being run to the battery?

 

Sorry Vlad just saw your new post today... while I'm not 100% sure, I guess ground to the battery neg could be the cause of random shreeking if the CB was the latest electrical mod you did. Instead of going to the battery I grounded to a bolt that was close by (had lots of other grounds already going to it) as the write-up here on the forum suggested. Here I'll post a pic for you, you can see the blue plastic piece of the ring connector:



If you haven't already switched your ground to test it out, I suggest you do and post the results back here so we all know what happened! Good luck!

 

Thanks for the reply BLK08JK, I did switch the ground to a bolt that is in the lower part of the dash by the shifter. It seems to have helped substantially so I only get a very small eek when turning headlights on. I haven't been able to check the range as no one replied to me on the channels but driving around town having it scanning I did managed to pick up a couple conversations that did come through pretty clear. No idea how far they were as they did not reply once I asked.

Realistically what kinda of range is capable with this unit? I have the 4' firestick from cool tech and the antenna is about a good foot and some above the roof line.

 

Wow, this is the cleanest install I've seen, and I did a lot of searching. Well done!