How to Tune A CB Antenna 

Mr. Mark, meet Mr. DIELECTRIC GREASE.... USE IT on ALL your mechanical and electrical/antenna connections as the grease will prevent water intrusion=RUST and keep corrosion from affecting the radio performance. You also need to put a bit of grease on the antenna top and inside of the cap as this will keep water OUT and make for easier removal of said cap.... AND, for a new install, use a meter to make sure there are NO shorts between ground and the PL259 center pin/jack.... (with radio disconnected of course).... Just a smart thing to do.... P.S. At ~ 5:22, to tune a wire wrapped stick, you DO NOT CUT THE STICK, just unwrap a bit of the wire and cut, maybe 1/8 to 1/4 inch at a time. You don't want to f-up the fiberglass itself, but, just trim the wrapped wire a bit and recheck the SWR between cuts....

Dang man! I didn't know there was so much to CB's! Thanks for doing this! Saving all these in a playlist for when I get one!

Your honesty is very welcomed, thank you for the video.

“Don’t do it in front of your house”. AKA I’m going off road for awhile! 😃Thanks for the info Mark!

if you wanted to change the swr without cutting the wire ( you dont cut the fiberglass) you move the mount up or down

Great video Mark . I'm going to ditch my CB for a GMRS radio and then just get a hand held CB for those who are not on GMRS . Take care sir and catch you on your next video. I wish you guys lived in Utah still so we could meet up and do some off roading.

Thanks for the education ! ✌️🇬🇧

If you take the cap off at the beginning, you'll get nowhere with the tunable tip model. This is because the SWR changes a fair bit with the Firestik when you put it back on. Rotate the whole lot with the end cap in place.

Or you could move your antenna to another place on the truck and your swr will drop to 1.1

I have a question, sir. When I try tuning my cb I cal it to set on fwd. Then switch it to ref it stay in the red what I'm I doing wrong

How was/is your ground plane on that mount ?

Do I need that tool if my CB has a screen? It’s tells me that same info.

SWR of 1.5 is a 3% loss.