@@JDQTransportation how is your range talking to passing drivers? I too have a Wilson 2000 and have the 10 inch shaft I’ve opted to put my radio on the dash I run a galaxy 99 it’s a little bigger than that recessed square on dash but it’s ok I’m using Velcro and it don’t move the heat sink on back of radio keeps it from any chance of sliding back I have a strip of Velcro the width of radio at rear and a strip on front I just don’t like reaching up to the overhead to try and change channels or turn knobs. For power I’m just using 1 of the 3 lighter outlets. Did you run any extra ground straps? Again thank you!!
I don't know if you know this or not but that cable you used was a co-phased cable specifically designed for a dual antenna setup. It uses 75 ohm impedance on each cable. Considering the low 4 watt rating of CB radios, it is important to use a single 50 ohm coax cable for a single antenna. That cable may cause poor incoming and outgoing signal due to the higher impedance and may also give incorrect SWR readings. Also, the extra unused end will bleed off your outgoing power as well as cause a further reduction in reception.
The outside panel in front of the door has 5 or 6 bolts. If you remove it, you can run the antenna cable into the cab where all the wires from the door go. They come in down there where your left foot goes. From there run it up the left pilar. No need to remove the visor or any of that part. Just remove the center piece where the CB goes and feed the antenna cable behind that cubby above the visor. Everything should take about an hour.
Don’t follow these instructions exactly. Couple of warnings; cophase coax is 75 ohm not 50 ohm use that split cable for two whips only. Your swr will be bad especially if the dangling end is unterminated. Also don’t pinch your coax in the door rubber gasket it’s bad for the coax and can cause leaks. Any antenna not properly tuned will eventually smoke your cb final transistor causing a situation where you can hear others but they can’t hear you. Just my two cents your mileage may vary. Much respect for the diy effort that’s what it takes to get along in this land of milk and honey.
@@JDQTransportation Jacob how is the Wilson mirror antenna mount for the cascadia working out for you? I have a 2022 cascadia daycab and the factory mount on body behind drivers door is junk you have to take the panel behind seatbelt off to get to it im not even messing with it the coax connector going to radio fell off it’s thin junk I’m in a company truck but thinking about this route. I have a Wilson 2000 I want to use as well. How did you route your coax through the door jamb? It wasn’t clear in your video I seen how you did in your overhead which is how mine is I’m contemplating just putting radio on dash in that recessed area with 3m tape I see you found the mount at petro? Thanks for sharing!!
still using the old mount for the 2018 and up hey.. PROCOMM - PCA5502 2017 & UP Cascadia P4 Series Aluminum Antenna Mirror Mount with SO239 Stud is for the new generation cascadia..
@@craig_sez8534 reflect... You mean SWR? Guys with tilted antennas usually have tall shifters, wear fingerless gloves, and walk around with their Bluetooth headsets on wherever the go. Seriously though... The leaning of the antenna was only done with long flexible antennas like old Frances or the Hustler whips so that when driving, the wind would force the antenna to stand up straight up. The Tilting of average cb antennas,( including Wilson) is degrading the antenna's ability to receive and transmit properly. It doesn't say anywhere in the instructions to tilt the antenna. Radio waves are like dropping a rock into the middle of a pool of water. They travel the same way.....unless you have a dipole antenna. Since you transmit the same as you receive, if your antenna is pointing forward most of your signal is going into the ground and into space. it'll still work but not as efficiently.
@@rmark1083 lol reflect has nothin to do with swr......If your in a room and you throw a ball at the wall..What happens till the ball runs out of movement.....What do you see when you look in a mirror.....Now think before you respond..
@@rmark1083 No idea what your gettin on about the shifter,gloves part..Got nothin to do with anything..Like i said,reflect thats the partial purpose of the antenna lean..The other part is as you say due to ant length which is why your ant should be tuned on the fly even thought you cant physically do it while you drive..
@@craig_sez8534 the comment about fingerless gloves was supposed to be a joke. You don't get it? Anyway, the ball is going to bounce back and forth until it stops. Yes it does have to do with swr. My comment about radio waves are kinda like dropping a rock into the middle of a pool meant that radio waves drop straight down and ripple out from there. You don't want your own radio waves (transmission) bouncing back to your antenna. An SWR of 1:1 indicates that the antenna is perfectly matched and there's NO REFLECTED power. At the other end of the scale an SWR of 1:Infinity indicates that no power is being absorbed by the antenna and all the transmitter power is being reflected back to the transmitter. That reflected power is coming back to the transmitter in the form of heat which is isn't good for your radio. There should be no need to adjust your antenna on the fly. Adjust once and be done with it. Leave it pointing at the sky and nowhere else.
just a fyi you cant run co phase coax with 1 antenna ypu need a single 75 ohm coax. and get it to the cb shop and get swrs set dont use the one on the cobra. just a fyi ...bad swrs can fry your finals
ahem... RG58 coax is 50 ohms. 75 ohm coax is for old school cable box's. 75 ohm will work however the SWR will be slightly higher due to the impedance. Also an antenna analyzer (SWR meter) are only like $20 then you can do it yourself. (Dang, how do I type this up without sounding like a know-it-all ass hat?) haha.
Somewhat helpful on the parts but when it comes to actually installing the system and I found this video very lacking ended up having to go to a different video to get it installed properly
@@JDQTransportation I liked the beginning of it but the camera work wasn't very good so I couldn't see everything that you're doing and at least in my case I'm dyslexic so it's difficult for me to read instructions so I was hoping to cheat a little by watching your video for assembling the antenna but the part that I really needed help with was where and how to put the cord for the CB radio the placement and all that is where I really struggled
@@bigt4490 I do apologize for that, honestly. I was very early into my TH-cam career so I was still learning on camera angles and such. And I didn’t have a GoPro at the time. Sorry I wasn’t the help you needed
The first half was still helpful and despite watching the video I made the same mistake that you did with the mirror brackets for the antenna I accidentally bought for the older models not the newer one LOL
Why do all that? You have a roof mounted antenna built in.😂 Of course I'm joking. Great video thanks for the instructions. How is that Wilson antenna working out?
Hell yeah man!!!! Congrats!!! I actually have a new CB setup than what I had before. But these Freightliners (and I’m pretty sure peterbilts too) have power wires already built in so it’s just plug and play. May need a couple wire crimpers at most. With the setup I have now it’s on the dash with an 8 gage power wire direct to the battery
Same cb radio as well just antenna cable will not fit. I guess I got the wrong one and was curious on which one you had bought and from where? Pilot doesn’t have them in stock rn
@@JDQTransportation helps diminish it. Ideally you want a straight up and down antenna. They only recommend it tilted about a max of 10* to reduce interference from the truck. But if you have a tall enough antenna, it doesn't matter a whole lot. You want a minimum 4ft antenna and a good quality coax, and ground. No matter how badass a radio someone has, if you don't have a good antenna system, the performance will stink. Peak and tune a radio but not necessarily have to have huge wattage. That's for pushing out a really long distance provided your antenna system can handle it. And most cheap antennas overrate their wattage capacity. If a cheap antenna says 300 watts, it really can only effectively handle 150 at best. You're better to stay around 75 to 100 watts peak. When you start getting into linear and big wattage antennas, you really have to know what you're doing and how that wattage will help or hurt you. So many drivers start adding kickers and really have no clue what they're really doing or just exactly how their cb is performing over the airways. Ideally if you have a well grounded system and a single coax 102" whip, you can walk that dog on 15 watts or less. I talk all over the world on less than 3 watts on my ham radio. Most guys tilt those antennas forward too far because they think it looks cool..but reality is they're transmitting straight to the ground and up to the air...even though they can hear things and talk a little ways away. I liked your install though, was clean for most part, although I don't see exactly where you routed the coax from the antenna into the truck. Did you leave a short section you can see from door to just inside the bottom of that A pillar cover where it ends on the bottom? I saw another guy route it into the engine bay, and back through the foam backed access port into the dash and came out where the steering wheel tilt is, then run it through dash to in behind kick panel and up to and through the A pillar cover and up. Take care and keep the shiny side up.. de WB1BYR
@@kroozer_814 Look up smokin joes,he does a vid on a subject called rf grounding...Bbi also does some as well on bonding(grounding the ant)..Not sure where op is running his bond strap..
Fuckin love you for this 😂 I was afraid I'd have to pay some nerd to install everything since I ain't know what mounting bracket and what not to get. That and I'm always trynna figure this out with 4 or 5 hrs of sleep lol Thanks!
@JDQTransportation and I just bought everything I needed 😅 They ain't had any Cobras in stock, which is my love of all CB Radios... but this Midland will do for now. I almost bought that 15,000 watt coiled deathray antenna called the Terminator ... But I'm not sure what I'll need between that and CB so I just got what you did. 😎 All in all, 300$ out the door without the speakers or microphone upgrade. 😎
Also forgot to mention in this video. But the new truck name will be anointed next video!👀
Jacob is the coax being squeezed between the door and jamb is it pinching bad?
@@iamkazie9401 not terrible no
@@JDQTransportation how is your range talking to passing drivers? I too have a Wilson 2000 and have the 10 inch shaft I’ve opted to put my radio on the dash I run a galaxy 99 it’s a little bigger than that recessed square on dash but it’s ok I’m using Velcro and it don’t move the heat sink on back of radio keeps it from any chance of sliding back I have a strip of Velcro the width of radio at rear and a strip on front I just don’t like reaching up to the overhead to try and change channels or turn knobs. For power I’m just using 1 of the 3 lighter outlets. Did you run any extra ground straps? Again thank you!!
I don't know if you know this or not but that cable you used was a co-phased cable specifically designed for a dual antenna setup. It uses 75 ohm impedance on each cable. Considering the low 4 watt rating of CB radios, it is important to use a single 50 ohm coax cable for a single antenna. That cable may cause poor incoming and outgoing signal due to the higher impedance and may also give incorrect SWR readings. Also, the extra unused end will bleed off your outgoing power as well as cause a further reduction in reception.
The outside panel in front of the door has 5 or 6 bolts. If you remove it, you can run the antenna cable into the cab where all the wires from the door go. They come in down there where your left foot goes. From there run it up the left pilar. No need to remove the visor or any of that part. Just remove the center piece where the CB goes and feed the antenna cable behind that cubby above the visor. Everything should take about an hour.
Awesome info brother! I appreciate it!
What antenna will give me good swrs on a cascadia besides a 7-foot fire stick
Finally a competent prime driver!
You're gonna burn that radio up using the co-phased coax. It's rated at 75ohm. You need 50ohm coax for one antenna.
If you terminate the other side with a 50 ohm load it will help with the antenna match
Breaker 1 9, breaker 1 9, smokie this is the Bandit
Don’t follow these instructions exactly. Couple of warnings; cophase coax is 75 ohm not 50 ohm use that split cable for two whips only. Your swr will be bad especially if the dangling end is unterminated. Also don’t pinch your coax in the door rubber gasket it’s bad for the coax and can cause leaks. Any antenna not properly tuned will eventually smoke your cb final transistor causing a situation where you can hear others but they can’t hear you. Just my two cents your mileage may vary. Much respect for the diy effort that’s what it takes to get along in this land of milk and honey.
Can confirm. The cophase killed me little cobra lol. But I just upgraded to a Ranger RCI 99N2. Way more power
@@JDQTransportation just be sure to change ur coax you’ll be fine
@@JDQTransportation Jacob how is the Wilson mirror antenna mount for the cascadia working out for you? I have a 2022 cascadia daycab and the factory mount on body behind drivers door is junk you have to take the panel behind seatbelt off to get to it im not even messing with it the coax connector going to radio fell off it’s thin junk I’m in a company truck but thinking about this route. I have a Wilson 2000 I want to use as well. How did you route your coax through the door jamb? It wasn’t clear in your video I seen how you did in your overhead which is how mine is I’m contemplating just putting radio on dash in that recessed area with 3m tape I see you found the mount at petro? Thanks for sharing!!
@@iamkazie9401 it worked out great!
Although I am no longer in the Cascadia. I'm now in a 2006 peterbilt 379
@@iamkazie9401 also to route it through I just went over the seal. So when the door was open you could see the coax
Awesome. I was wondering how to do the cable. TYVM!!
You got it!👍🏼😎
Great minds think alike, I bought the same amount couldn’t figure out how the hell to do it watched your video and saw that I bought the wrong one
still using the old mount for the 2018 and up hey..
PROCOMM - PCA5502 2017 & UP Cascadia P4 Series Aluminum Antenna Mirror Mount with SO239 Stud
is for the new generation cascadia..
Well I just got a 2023 cascadia today so I guess I’ll be hitting up loves tomorrow 😂
Sweet!!!!
Leaning forward antenna 100% cool factor
Needs to be done for reflect..
@@craig_sez8534 reflect... You mean SWR?
Guys with tilted antennas usually have tall shifters, wear fingerless gloves, and walk around with their Bluetooth headsets on wherever the go.
Seriously though...
The leaning of the antenna was only done with long flexible antennas like old Frances or the Hustler whips so that when driving, the wind would force the antenna to stand up straight up. The Tilting of average cb antennas,( including Wilson) is degrading the antenna's ability to receive and transmit properly. It doesn't say anywhere in the instructions to tilt the antenna. Radio waves are like dropping a rock into the middle of a pool of water. They travel the same way.....unless you have a dipole antenna. Since you transmit the same as you receive, if your antenna is pointing forward most of your signal is going into the ground and into space. it'll still work but not as efficiently.
@@rmark1083 lol reflect has nothin to do with swr......If your in a room and you throw a ball at the wall..What happens till the ball runs out of movement.....What do you see when you look in a mirror.....Now think before you respond..
@@rmark1083 No idea what your gettin on about the shifter,gloves part..Got nothin to do with anything..Like i said,reflect thats the partial purpose of the antenna lean..The other part is as you say due to ant length which is why your ant should be tuned on the fly even thought you cant physically do it while you drive..
@@craig_sez8534 the comment about fingerless gloves was supposed to be a joke. You don't get it?
Anyway, the ball is going to bounce back and forth until it stops. Yes it does have to do with swr. My comment about radio waves are kinda like dropping a rock into the middle of a pool meant that radio waves drop straight down and ripple out from there. You don't want your own radio waves (transmission) bouncing back to your antenna.
An SWR of 1:1 indicates that the antenna is perfectly matched and there's NO REFLECTED power. At the other end of the scale an SWR of 1:Infinity indicates that no power is being absorbed by the antenna and all the transmitter power is being reflected back to the transmitter. That reflected power is coming back to the transmitter in the form of heat which is isn't good for your radio.
There should be no need to adjust your antenna on the fly. Adjust once and be done with it. Leave it pointing at the sky and nowhere else.
Do you know if the antenna needs to be grounded? If so what does someone need to hook up a ground?
Do you have to ground this setup?
just a fyi you cant run co phase coax with 1 antenna ypu need a single 75 ohm coax. and get it to the cb shop and get swrs set dont use the one on the cobra. just a fyi ...bad swrs can fry your finals
ahem... RG58 coax is 50 ohms. 75 ohm coax is for old school cable box's. 75 ohm will work however the SWR will be slightly higher due to the impedance. Also an antenna analyzer (SWR meter) are only like $20 then you can do it yourself. (Dang, how do I type this up without sounding like a know-it-all ass hat?) haha.
@@QRPadventures no co phase is 75 ohm and can't be used with single antenna
Awesome man great instructions
Look Like You In Mebane NC. Thanks For The Video
Mannn I honestly don't remember where I was on that 🤣 sorry for the super late reply. I didn't get the notification of the comment
its on the receipt lol
Great and easy to follow thank you
Okay. So I just got a 2022. And I’m a new trucker.. so what are these wonky looking connecters in the stock set up? There’s no cb power cable?
There is a power cable for the CB. May have to splice a few wires to fit the CB you have
They are crimp connectors. You just put bare wires into them and crimp with a crimp tool.
great video brother!
Thank ya brother!!😎
@@JDQTransportation you bet
Is the 18 foot coax way to long? Or just enough?
Quite a bit too long
@JDQTransportation would 9 foot be better or would that be to short?
@@hydro_rebel7741 9 foot possibly could work. I might try a 12 to be safe
Somewhat helpful on the parts but when it comes to actually installing the system and I found this video very lacking ended up having to go to a different video to get it installed properly
What did you find it was lacking? I could possibly upload another video soon on it?
@@JDQTransportation I liked the beginning of it but the camera work wasn't very good so I couldn't see everything that you're doing and at least in my case I'm dyslexic so it's difficult for me to read instructions so I was hoping to cheat a little by watching your video for assembling the antenna but the part that I really needed help with was where and how to put the cord for the CB radio the placement and all that is where I really struggled
@@bigt4490 I do apologize for that, honestly. I was very early into my TH-cam career so I was still learning on camera angles and such. And I didn’t have a GoPro at the time. Sorry I wasn’t the help you needed
The first half was still helpful and despite watching the video I made the same mistake that you did with the mirror brackets for the antenna I accidentally bought for the older models not the newer one LOL
Why do all that? You have a roof mounted antenna built in.😂 Of course I'm joking. Great video thanks for the instructions. How is that Wilson antenna working out?
It worked GREAT while I had the truck!
Sorry for the SUPER late reply. Have had TONS going on
But I highly recommend that Wilson 💪🏼
About to drop one in my '22
Hell yeah!!
I’m at Prime. Getting ready to upgrade. Going lease. I was wondering if you could do a video on how you installed your actual CB.
Hell yeah man!!!! Congrats!!! I actually have a new CB setup than what I had before. But these Freightliners (and I’m pretty sure peterbilts too) have power wires already built in so it’s just plug and play. May need a couple wire crimpers at most. With the setup I have now it’s on the dash with an 8 gage power wire direct to the battery
What kind of cab antenna cable? Mine won’t fit it
The cable going to the cb from the antenna?
Yeah
Same cb radio as well just antenna cable will not fit. I guess I got the wrong one and was curious on which one you had bought and from where? Pilot doesn’t have them in stock rn
@@khtrucking6962 I got it from a TA Petro. Just an 18ft coax cable
Thx for the info
How good is it , are you receiving good and getting out
So far it’s pretty decent. I need to get radio and antenna tuned
@@JDQTransportation leave radio alone,tune ant with an analyzer...Dont get hung up on swr bs....Do some bonding for rf travel.
@@craig_sez8534 YES! you are correct and giving great advice.
Prob bad that antenna is horrible for the location better off with a 5 plus ft firestik
So, if a person is not as skilled as you, will Prime I stall for you? Of course probably a charge?
I promise it doesn’t take much skill. But yes if you bring it to the detail shop they can install it
@@JDQTransportation Good to know. Have a good week and please stay safe. Rig is looking really good.
@@jimb3541 much appreciated!
How do you like your truck?
Love it bro! Rides like a freightshaker tho🤣 but she gets the job done
Why is the antenna tipped forward?
Helps with the range of it
@@JDQTransportation lessens the reflect from the truck body..
@@JDQTransportation helps diminish it. Ideally you want a straight up and down antenna. They only recommend it tilted about a max of 10* to reduce interference from the truck. But if you have a tall enough antenna, it doesn't matter a whole lot. You want a minimum 4ft antenna and a good quality coax, and ground. No matter how badass a radio someone has, if you don't have a good antenna system, the performance will stink. Peak and tune a radio but not necessarily have to have huge wattage. That's for pushing out a really long distance provided your antenna system can handle it. And most cheap antennas overrate their wattage capacity. If a cheap antenna says 300 watts, it really can only effectively handle 150 at best. You're better to stay around 75 to 100 watts peak. When you start getting into linear and big wattage antennas, you really have to know what you're doing and how that wattage will help or hurt you. So many drivers start adding kickers and really have no clue what they're really doing or just exactly how their cb is performing over the airways. Ideally if you have a well grounded system and a single coax 102" whip, you can walk that dog on 15 watts or less. I talk all over the world on less than 3 watts on my ham radio. Most guys tilt those antennas forward too far because they think it looks cool..but reality is they're transmitting straight to the ground and up to the air...even though they can hear things and talk a little ways away. I liked your install though, was clean for most part, although I don't see exactly where you routed the coax from the antenna into the truck. Did you leave a short section you can see from door to just inside the bottom of that A pillar cover where it ends on the bottom? I saw another guy route it into the engine bay, and back through the foam backed access port into the dash and came out where the steering wheel tilt is, then run it through dash to in behind kick panel and up to and through the A pillar cover and up. Take care and keep the shiny side up.. de WB1BYR
Bottom spaca dont fit, 2 long
4got da shotgun side
Whats up brotha cool 😎 I'm sure 1 day I'll be doing this.
Yessirrrr!!!
Nice job brother
Appreciate it brother!🤟🏼
Any swr issues without running a ground from the mount?
No sir! Not as of now
@@JDQTransportation dang lucky im having a heck of a time trying to get mine below 1.6 cuz im gonna be pushing 500+ watts on my 2020 cascadia
@@kroozer_814 Look up smokin joes,he does a vid on a subject called rf grounding...Bbi also does some as well on bonding(grounding the ant)..Not sure where op is running his bond strap..
Fuckin love you for this 😂 I was afraid I'd have to pay some nerd to install everything since I ain't know what mounting bracket and what not to get.
That and I'm always trynna figure this out with 4 or 5 hrs of sleep lol
Thanks!
That’s why I posted brother! Yeah I could’ve done a lot better but this will get you going 😎😎😎
@JDQTransportation and I just bought everything I needed 😅 They ain't had any Cobras in stock, which is my love of all CB Radios... but this Midland will do for now.
I almost bought that 15,000 watt coiled deathray antenna called the Terminator ... But I'm not sure what I'll need between that and CB so I just got what you did. 😎
All in all, 300$ out the door without the speakers or microphone upgrade. 😎
Start with installing a new hat… 😂
🖕🏼🤣🤣
@@HeathensTruckingLLC yeah I actually am🤣🤣👀
Got a “2000 watt” antenna for a 4 watt radio. And its center loaded. Lmfao!!!
👍🏻👍🏻
Success leading watching this like: 👁👄👁
🤣🤣🤣. Let em watch lol. I’m paying the note
Soo what I’m hearing is do this on a 34hr or hometime lol
It’s really. It that bad. It sounds like a lot, but after I did it that time, I did it for a few fiends and it took me like 10-20 minutes lol
@@JDQTransportation yea see imma need to do it on a 34 lol
Did you have to ground your antenna?
No sir I don’t
Yes you do...A low swr doesnt mean a good antenna tx/rec...Look up bonding or rf bonding..
That co-phase coax won't work right, it's the wrong ohms. Co-phase coax is 75 ohms where standard coax is 50 ohms .. Might do damage to your radio...
Yeah it fried it lol. But it was a cheapo one. I upgraded my setup
I was looking at this video and saying to myself "He got all the wrong parts for this job".
🤣
All that work and money just to listen to truckers chat about mindless drivel on CB
Probably should have invested in some fingernail clippers while he was in there that shit looks gross
You had time to realize you have ALL of the wrong ot worst choice from mike to antenna. ALL of it is junk. Seriously, do you know???
First
Ayeee😎🤟🏼
Wow this guy has no idea what he is doing