You will need a CB radio antenna, The CB radio and mounting hardware as well as the power wire.
Choose a place to mount the radio. Mount it. Run the power wires from the radio to the fuse box. Put red wire in with the fuse that is hooked to switched 12 volt. Ground the black wire to any metal of the vehicle.
Next find a place to mount the antenna. If you use a mag mount, the roof of the cab is a best bet. Run the wire into the vehicle, it can go through the door, just make sure its not going to get pinched.
Hook the coax from the antenna to the radio
Now you have to tune the antenna. this is important because if you don't you you will blow the transmit final transistor out in the radio.
This link will take you to an article that will explain how to tune your antenna.
I mounted mine overhead and ran the coax inside the roof panel thru the roof and to an antenna mounted to the roof. The power lead was tucked inside the inner trim and routed around to the fuse panel. No visible wiring inside or out.
Best way to mount an antenna on a pickup truck is to get a decent magnetic mount antenna
Mount the radio under the dash
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Hello papapyr07,
It looks like you are trying to run the CB and the commercial radio off of the same antenna at the same time? This I gather is failing. This may be due to the pre-wired antenna having a filter on it to prevent exactly what you are trying to do. If this is the case you may have no choice but to run a separate antenna for your CB (this is the most logical choice), now you can try to find the filter if it is an external filter and remove it and use an antenna matching network to connect the CB to the existing antenna system (next logical, but may void the antenna system warranty). In any event you will either have to run another antenna for the CB or find and remove the present antenna filter.
I hope this helps
Thank you,
Shuttle83
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