The coax and power lines for cb do cross each other once or maybe twice. I remember reading somewhere you should keep power and coax as far from each other as you can. I routed the coax along my rear wiring harness and my cb is mounted under my ashtray.
Power from the pdc power stud Jerry has recommended and ground from a passenger footwell ground. Would straight to the batter for the ground possibly improve things?
I would need to re check for sure but I am pretty sure it had close to the same amount of static on or off. I plan to reroute my coax a little bit tomorrow. I have it going a little all over in my dash to use the rest of my line but I read a figure 8 style loop or oval should work just fine. Just so long as it is not a circle?
The distance is also not very different. I drilled a hole in my firewall where the SPODs installation had their customers drill. The ground I am using was just hoping on to the ground in the passenger footwell closest to the outside not sure which ground that is though.
First off, shorten the coax to the length you need - that "multiple of wavelength" for coax length is bullshit. With that said, if you're getting the RFI with the Jeep off, its probably not your installation. Drive it "elsewhere" and see if it changes or goes away.
This is what I was getting at. CB is inherently noisey (AM) and the range isn't yuge. How far away was the person you were talking to?
A mile, maybe two max. We do have a lot of trees around here but It didn’t get much better when I got closer to him.
My best guess would be around half a mile. A lot more houses then trees at that point as well. Still some trees but not as dense.
