The Best CB Radio Antennas 

The new Striker A-10 mobile is the best antenna I have ever used in 50 years of CB radio user.

You left out the granddaddy of mobile antennas, the venerable 102" stainless steel whip! I know it can't be mounted on every vehicle but if you can, do it! You don't be disappointed! Also, the Hygain SPT-500 "Super Penetrator" 5/8 wave ground plane! Best base antenna on the market today and had been around since the 70's.

The Wilson 5000 is an amazing antenna. I've used it and like the video said I put it on my stove to test it with a base/mobile antenna it got out and received just fine before I reattached it to my A99. The 100 is fine, but I personally recommend the 5000. The K40 bases in upstate NY at speeds of around 60 mph tend to crack. The Wilson is in my view the better choice.

I drove a 18 wheeler for 35 years and in those years I have had every mobile antenna you can think of. I retired 15 years ago and hit the road again with a camper just to enjoy some of the places I had been. I bought a Little Will to use with my Cobra 29. This was the best antenna I ever owned. It has been 15 years ago since I bought it. I still use that antenna on my van. It has out lasted the 3 vehicles I have bought. I very strongly suggest the purchase of this antenna as a mobile antenna. Thank You for the video. I also agree with you on the base antennas I use the Sirio now for my base radio.

Very helpful video. Specially for myself as I'm just starting and studying for my first licence here in Belgium At my home, my big chimney has a 2mx1m steel rain cover plate, on top. So, i put a magnet mount Sirio 5000 up there. and used "203" coax. the SWR is 1:1.2-3 on channel 20. Most everyone hears me quite well. On SSB I've talked briefly "across the pond", Spain, UK, Poland, etc. This 200 + cm antenna is virtually invisible against the sky. very discret.... One of my very experienced AR friends here, just installed an Imax 2000, like you talked about here. He tested SWR, etc and is really happy with it. He used 3M "33" tape at every joint I saw in his photo report. I'm going to share this video with the club, because it’s relevant and easy to understand (their mother tongue isn't English, so your clear descriptions help a lot) When I get my beginners license, I'll check this video again, and get a "proper antenna" ! thanks :-) Peter Hume Brussels Belgium

Since DAS Inc. bought Wilson, there is no tech support for Wilson anymore. I am switching to Hustler antennas made in USA.

Old man here. I had a KRACO cheap CB with used Hustler brand twin/fiberglass with stingers on top (6" metal antenna at the top) when I was 17. I had to get a license back then but that set up worked AMAZING! shoot skip from central Illinois to Texas ! In the last couple years started dragging a camper around and CB is used alot with RVrs . I have a President Andy CB. and Just installed the Cobra 75 All Road with a Stryker A-10 .it tuned 1.1 right out of the box! sorry long winded.

Silver rod on a tower block roof (18 floors) works for me. £35

Good afternoon sir. How far away from electrical wires does an antenna have to be. Just started watching your channel and am enjoying it. Thank you

I have the Sirio Gainmaster 5/8th wavelength antenna and couldn't be happier with it, a far better antenna than the Solarcons or antrons in my opinion for the fiberglass line of base antennas.😏👍

The "Larsen Kulrod NMO27," commercial low band ant tuned to 27mhz, Antenna plus a selected Larsen mount runs just over $100.

Rockin an A99 and Predator 10K. You could also use a dipole antenna for HOA :) Great video dude!!

Good video, but could definitely do without the twangy background noise. SWR meter is important in every antenna situation. Never assume the "factory" setting is correct. There are many ways to be creative and make stealth antennas.

Maco V 5/8 is an awesome antenna. The new Wilson’s are junk for the most part. Predator 10K is the best for my application. 102” steel whip,Firestick and Skipshooter are great antennas also.

I used to use a 5/8ths ground plane at about 35 feet. I did Arizona to Australia quite often. #17 Southern Arizona.

I've been on these CB's for many years I have ran a Wilson 1000 for years, I tried to run a Lil Wilson but can't get the SWR's low. And my old Moonrackers still blast. But I don't live in an area where it matters.

I've ran a 4 foot fire stick on my old truck and a 108 whip. I am leaning towards a mag mount again cause if I don't get a good ground plane on a pickup stake mount the next best is up high with a magnet mount. I used a 1/4 wave antenna for uhf for gmrs and ham bands with a mag mount and was hitting everything without an issue. There is something to saying raise the roof.

In the mid tolate 70's pops used a Shakespeare big stick and replaced the tip with a firestick and it performed outstanding we were able to reach out about 38 mi barefoot every morning on his computer to work

...& I love both my IMAX & my Wilson 1000; have had 'em for many years & they work great!

Cool video. I used all antennas you mentioned. For base the sirio 827 was the best base antenna I ever used for omni directional. Rugged. For mobile I've had the Wilson 1000 mag mount. Awesome performance. And the K 30 mag mount and it too worked awesome. Again Racoon great video. #12 Watkins Glen N.Y. wavin.

I don't have a base unit yet, but the setup in my pickup includes a President McKinley, 102" whip, and I'm absolutely not running an RM Italy 203P. Although RM Italy advertises the amp I'm not running at 100 watts, on a meter the output is only 35 watts. I had another 203P NIB that I definitely didn't hook up, and that output was also 35 watts. But that 35 watts that I'm absolutely not running is plenty to reach from New England to all over Canada, Northern Ireland, Poland, Bosnia, the Caribbean, and the continental US. In terms of a mobile CB antenna, I feel very strongly that any list is incomplete without the 102" whip.

Thanks for the video. 5000 watts AM through RG8X coax on the Wilson 5000. Someone should try that and let us know what happens.

102” quarter wave whip for mobile can’t be beat.

You for got about the easy to make or build di pole antenna that you can hide in your attic or run up the side of your wall !!!

I prefer a 4' stainless steel whip with a base loaded coil and mounted high above any obstructions on a vehicle, for a base station I liked the Antron-99 myself used with RG8 or LMR400.

I have used Wilson 1000 antennas for a long time, but now will never use one again, they do not last. The soldering inside the coil base breaks causing high SWR's, which can fry your radios. If you need one go with the stryker A10.

Still using a Wilson 5000 Trucker long mast.Has been a main stay for years.

i made two antennas λ/4 alouminum radiator and three radials(copper wire) and its tided up in a woden broom stick .. radiator and radials 66 inches..SWR 1:2 and the other one swr (the needle stays in 1) costs 5euro.. regards from Greece 73

On a passenger vehicle (or pickup truck) I prefer to avoid magnet mount antennas. They tend to mess up the paint / clearcoat in the long run. My Toyota Tacoma has a CBI offroad fab bracket bolted onto the hood/windshield cowl & 5 ft Firestick whip.

i used to use a uniden 520xl with an old starduster antenna from the 70s and nobody could believe it!!! It talked!!

A bought or selfbuild dipole antenna can be mounted in the attic in a HOA

Great video! For entertainment can you make a video the worst antenna`s for CB radio? Like the Sirio Storm 27, the Thunderpole Excalibur etc..

have a i-max 2000 on one barn for my house cb an a a99 on my other barn for my cb in it,,,both work great an the can take our xenia oh wind ...thats a plus

I am using the Solarcon GPS-27 no ground plain antenna. Cost $99 from Amazon. Aluminum 18 foot long. I love this antenna, I talk DX all over the world. Cons? Supposedly only handles 250 watts, but I put 500 through it, as long as I don't get long winded it's ok.

I forgot to mention, in the mobile it's a predator 10k.

Hi good video i live in the United Kingdom i put mine on a biscuit tin with my scanners antennas they pic up well on the civil aircraft 108/136 i do have some good power packs can you get the wilson antennas in the United Kingdom i would like to try one as i would like to see the CB radio come back to the united kingdom as it was fun in the 70s and 80s one again a good informative video

Good !! Thanks to the advice of this channel and others, I have already managed to put on my roof, close to my window an antenna with magnetic base Santiago 1200, in front I do not have houses, I am in the highest part of the building, and from that window alone It looks free space to the horizon ... The SWR is 1.0 - 1.2 in all frequencies ... but .. !!! What do I do wrong now? The only thing I hear in my Alinco DX10 is a lot of noise background .. Sound of that as an estatic ... you know I want to say .. it's so strong that it lleys S-9 .. I am very sad .. Now that my antenna has no SWR anymore .. I do not hear anything because of so much noise .. Please some idea?

The bad part of HOA's is they always put the Tyrant with no life in charge. I have had a Wilson 1000 for 26 years now. Never let me down.

Aluminum foil laid out under coffee can will help bring down swr,use 1-3 long strips

I love the Wilson 5000 I've had two of them I've not got one now so the first one I don't know what happened to it and I bought myself another one cuz I like the first one

I live in an hoa. I wish i could run a yagi or the like. With restrictions the way they are my current setup i talk on an imax 2000. It does the job I work all 50 states and a handful of DC stations when skip is rolling.

AT MY OFFICE HERE IN NYC I PUT THE WILSON 1000 MAGNAMOUNT ON MY AIR CONDITIONER OUTSIDE MY OFFICE. MANY PPL HERE IN LOW INCOME HOUSING, CONDOS AND COOP APTs GET AROUND HOA RULES THIS WAY. I LOCAL TALK 40 MILES EASY AND SHOOT SKIP TO OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL.

Would your upside down coffee cup work for a 102” whip as a ground plane I don’t live in a hoa but I don’t have the ability to put up a 20 ft pole

Wilson 1000 is just Wilson version of the k40 which when it first came out late 70s I was involved in a test run comparison to firestick 7' the k40 went about 6 miles farther than the fire stick when the firestick stopped making it antenna bases switched and k40 went 6 more am miles they didn't do ssb tests but in exp similar response would happen only just bit farther due the audio increases

I love my Wilson 1000 antenna

which portable CB antennas are best suggested for SSB (long range)?

Great job, describing all the diff types of antennas👍🇺🇸

I like a antron 99 best i ever had!!!

i live in a hoa development, and they have a restriction that says no antennas, so I had an old satellite dish I made a half wave antenna they do not say anything about a satellite dish, so I made my antenna. I bought a pvc pipe it is 1 inch and I cut three-foot pieces and put them at equal distance around the dish and put them together at the ends and put a so239 at the ends and took 9 feet of copper wire and wrapped it around the pvc it needs not be perfect but leave a little space between the wraps and make sure to ground the antenna. I checked the swr on mine and it was 1.0 on channel and about 1.6 on channel 1, tilt your antenna up as high as it will tilt and you can swivel it around to get the best pickup of other stations you can hook your ground to one of the little holes on the back of the so239 there are four of them when you put the ends of the copper wire together you have to solder them to the center connecter on the back of the so239 make sure they do not touch the ground wire the copper wire that I have is coated with shellac you can heat it up with a propane torch and then take of sand paper and sand the rest of it off I went to a hard ware store and bought a ground rod all they had was a ten foot rod so I had to cut it about 4 or 5 feet long and by the way it is copper on the outside but steel on the inside but it will work all my cost was the pvc and the ground rod you can get the copper wire out of an old transformer I already had mine good luck ,if you do it right it will work very well for you, look around you might find a dish that is not being used anymore when I said about removing the coating from the copper wire you you only have to do each end about 1 inch will do

@ Raccoon's Radio Ranch: Hello. I'm trying to figure out what ADAPTER I need to run a Midland Portable CB Radio 75-822 Model from my car using a TRAM 3500 CB Radio Antenna. I keep ordering the wrong part, and nobody has an answer "so far" at least.

Hello !! Greetings from Andorra. I'm trying to put an antenna CB with a magnetic base on a small stand of my roof next to my window, but .. there's no way to get ground plane .... inside the house a short distance from the window I have radiators and everything Type of things where the magnetic base is hooked and I'm sure I would have a good Ground Plane .. So my idea is ... Two magnetic bases could be connected? One on the roof near the window with the antenna, the cable of that base would be the entrance to the other base .. The one that would be put at some good place .. and of the latter to the radio station .. I could work?

I would NEVER live in an HOA. It's downright unAmerican. Unfortunately the city where I live has gotten almost as bad as an HOA. I remember back in the mid '70s when I got my first CB. You could get some amazing antennas back then. I lived out on a farm back then, and had a Moonraker 4. It was a 4 element beam antenna, known as a cubical quad. It was very directional, and needed to be used with a rotator. This was before SSB, and you could easily transmit and receive 20-30 miles with it on AM under the right conditions, when you had it pointed it the right direction, with only 4 watts. Sadly they don't make CB antennas like that anymore. I have a homemade 5/8 wave ground plane antenna at home, a little Will on my car, and a Wilson 1000 on my pickup. I only carry an AM radio in my vehicles, because I only use them for short range communication with other vehicles, and that is what almost everyone else has. I have a 100 watt SSB radio at home.

What should one look for on SWR before keying the mic? As far as don’t key on it

What about fiberglass antennas like Firestik? I am looking at a pair of 4' long ones to update the old ones mounted on my motor off my Peterbilt.

AT MY BASE STATION I USE THE AMERICAN MADE 5/8 WAVE HYGAIN SPT-500 GROUND PLANE.

What do you think about a 102 in steel whip

I HAVE A COBRA 19 ULTRA 3 WHAT IS THE RIGHT ANTENNA FOR ME

As far as Mobile antennas, will the Wilson magnetic 5000 mounted on my car roof blow off at 70mph ??

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when i buy a new antenna do i need to do a calibration. And what difference between calibration and tune for CB radio??? Thank you I hope for answer👍👍

Great video

Thank you for you great videos. I have a Imax 2000 I bought with the ground plain (optional). Do I need the ground plain? Or does that depend on how high the antenna is mounted? I can only get mine about 12 feet off the ground....thank you love your vids keep them coming....Don / CB/Ham guy

I like to find a good old 5/8 ground plane

YOU LEFT OUT THE BEST ANTENNA THE HUNDRED TWO INCH WHIP

I max 2000 and for mobile i use a sirio 4000

Good video to do without the music

You have to have a bigger gram plan than a coffee can for a Wilson 1000

You gotta turn down the background music man.

If any one has got one for sale please let me know James grindstaff

Ugh. I wanted dbi gain specs for each model

No skip shooter? Lol

Mobile = Monkey Made MM9 $100 Base = Sirio Vector 4000 $150

I haven't heard anything good about the Wilson antennas anymore they used to be great antennas till they sold and somebody else is making them now they're from what I've been hearing they're kind of made cheap and junky

You put up an sirio boomerang for hoa or mount mobile antenna to gutter