Grounding J&M CB Antenna

[smokeFJR06]

I have a J&M CB Unit. I also purchase the J&M CB Antenna 3' long and am using the license plate mounting bracket that came with the kit. I'm not sure I have the ground termination correct at the antenna itself. I terminated the ground at the antenna on the license plate mount along with the antenna bracket where the screw runs throught the license plate and into the bracket. Is this correct?

The other end of the ground is to the frame under the passenger seat.

Thanks,

Smoke

 

[angus]

That is the way i have mine works fine. Make sure you have the antenna and washers in the correct order as not to ground out the antenna.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Damn you angus! I was going to tell him to grab a five foot piece o log chain and drag it from the wire.

Thanks fer ruining my fun

:jester:

 

[FJRandy]

What gauge ground strap did you use? You need 10 ga. minimum. You also need a 12' CB cable minimum.

Frame ground under the seat is perfect. DO NOT ground the antenna to the battery.

 

[smokeFJR06]

That is the way i have mine works fine. Make sure you have the antenna and washers in the correct order as not to ground out the antenna.

Thanks Angus. I'm having issues with the CB portion of the unit. I'm thinking it needs to be tuned in. I have a buddy from work bringing me a SWR Meter tomorrow and I'm going to do that. My Zumo/MP3 and Weather Radar portion of the J&M Unit is nice a clear. The CB portion though is very dirty sounding and my reception is near to none....one bar. I'm not able to transmit out either. Or maybe nobody wants to talk to me! :blink:

I've checked all my grounds, power runs, etc. and am coming up with nothing. I didn't think I would have to tune the unit since the antenna is a J&M antenna, thinking it would be pretuned. Now that I think about it, different bikes will have different tunning so how could the antenna be pretuned.

Did you have to tune yours after installation?

Damn you angus! I was going to tell him to grab a five foot piece o log chain and drag it from the wire.
Thanks fer ruining my fun

:jester:

I R DUM BUT KNOT THAT DUM!

 

[smokeFJR06]

What gauge ground strap did you use? You need 10 ga. minimum. You also need a 12' CB cable minimum.Frame ground under the seat is perfect. DO NOT ground the antenna to the battery.

I'm using the ground and CB cable that came with the antenna. I will have to look at the gauge, but it's pretty thick so I'm guessing it's at least 10 gauge. I don't know how long the CB cable actually is but I have it running from the license plate braket to the front glove box area and no where is it coiled up or anything. In thinking about what I just said, there's no way it could be 12' long then. Why does it have to be 12' minimum in length?

The antenna is grounded under the passenger seat to the frame.