Loving your content mate. Thanks so much for helping me learn CB for my truck. Late in life semi retired learning truck and CB so thanks for sharing your hard earned knowledge
Here’s an old trick to find electromagnetic interference with a radio install. Take a cheap hand held/portable AM/FM radio, cheaper ones are more susceptible to interference. Turn on your radio rig, then turn on the radio to a localish AM station. Hold the radio up to the whole radio install from the tip of the antenna, all along the antenna wire, and all the way to the CB. The radio will freak out with static when near a magnetic interference. You can use this to find any electromagnetic source all over the vehicle that may be causing you trouble.
USB cables can carry RF and act like an antenna. Get a high quality screened cable and make sure you ground it is grounded. Also ground the case of the CB radio. EDIT: Keep cable runs as short as possible.
Have you tried using ferite beads as a line choke. Also, the very length of some cords may become resonant at higher frequencies relative to other communication modes such as vhf, uhf, microwave, etc. I ground everything separate and bead coax near the antenna source . Also, Don't use cheap coax, it only causes headaches and shortens the life of your finals.
Did you ever try to touch the antenna while having a lot of static? The power coming in to the antenna (voltage) somehow gets mixed signals. But if you physically touch it or connect a little 2 core wire (looped) static disappears. You can turn down the squelch almost completely. This really works !
Yeah I used to work for Schneider and my truck not only had a bad antenna, but they put the CB mounts right on the dash, right where the stereo is, two 12v plugs, I had my 12v cooler, and my built in fridge. So much shit for static, it was pretty bad. Nothing I could do though because I needed a phone charger, and my GPS tablet power plugged in.
I use the usb port on my am/fm radio to charge my phone instead of the cigarette lighter plug... It's the low power charge but generates no noiseon my cb radio. Also if you want lower noise, get a Stryker 655
LED lights put out a crap ton of RF. The diode in the lights cause it. You can clear up your signal by installing an inline noise filter on your power supply. Even if you dont think your having much RF interference youd be amazed how quiet the static becomes with a filter. Less RF/static means you can hear distant and faint transmissions better.
@@bryanwesley154 have you isolated what is making noise interference in your radio? Led lights on? Headlights on? Engine running or not? Do not key up your radio during this test. Unscrew your antenna coaxial. Does the interference noise continue with the antenna disconnected? If so then many in line filters would work. Google Walcott Radio Bandit CB filter. If the noise completely disappears with the antenna disconnected even though you get a bunch of static when your lights are on, the interference is probably a bad antenna connection. A poor antenna ground or your coaxial cable is routed too close to a source of electrical disturbance like an alternator or a heavy flow of electricity thru wiring like near an engine control module or battery cables. Sometimes a fuse box is an electronic magnetic storm of interference. Your coax should be 18 feet in length. If your splitting between two antennas you should have 9 feet of coax to each antenna. The connections must be clean of any grime, paint or corrosion. The extra length of coax needs to be coiled up so the two ends flow in one side and out the other side. A rats nest of wire will cause electromagnetic disturbances. Remember and electric motor or alternator is a coil of wire with an electromagnetic field flowing thru it. Your dealing with sensitive circuitry in your radio so these little details are very huge in making a clean signal. Good luck.
I currently have my cheap old realistic cb in my car. I have it plugged into my cigarette lighter. Is there a benefit to just wiring it to the battery? Is there less interference? Your channel is very helpful, thanks for the great videos.
Wiring to the battery will help, with 8ga cable for that long of a run. RF bonding the vehicle greatly reduces interferences, just apply this video to your vehicle. ua-cam.com/video/ohkOX45dJn0/v-deo.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Do you pick up a buzz off certain power lines? Not all but some power lines I drive along beside I have to turn the volume down until I get off that street in the big rig. Some buildings cause a lot of static like downtown where I'm close at a red light. The ham folks say that ground and power strait from the battery help reduce noise but I haven't tried it yet. My cellphone charger also does the same thing. I have to turn the RF gain way down to tolerate it. Stryker 955 here.
Yes, there's no way to get away from all of it. But RF bonding the vehicle can greatly help, watch this video ua-cam.com/video/J6PJyw6jh2M/v-deo.html With the 955 you should be going to a the battery or power lug in the fuse box and the negative to the frame or a ground on the body. The 955 can also benefit from upgrading the power cord from Big Rig Radios out of Phoenix AZ
Hey brother love you videos question for you I have a CB base station with Antron 99 worked fine until the last couple weeks now,,, excessive static you can turn everything in the house off all appliances and still having static ninety-nine percent of the time it's static a lot of static I can't seem to pinn it down got a Conex 566 use it as a base station and a T or C 427 same results nothing has changed with my coax or my 99. Any suggestions thank you
My dadgum cb does the opposite. I had my phone charger cable layin over my footwarmers jumper coax..(100 watt with 1 watt goin in). When i keyed up, Apparantly it started activating apps as if i was tapping random icons on my phone. I thought i had fried my i-phone because along with 7-8 apps running it had went into my settings, display, contrast and turned my brightness to zero, so my screen was totally blank. 😂😂😂 Took me a while to figure out what had happened. Lol so now im careful about wire placement.
I have the same thing going on but with my rear camera to the dash/mirror camera in my pickup. It's external and installed on the rollbar, right next to my CB antenna. I was "smart" and installed the lot together along with lights and other circuits in a single conduit running through the firewall grommet and down along the chassis to the back. When I key in the dash cam freaks out with static first, but then goes and switches modes and settings and eventually reboots. But that's not even the scary part. The scary part for me is the 20ish RPM drop in engine speed when I key in. And I don't have an amp. I'm only doing 4 watts! I have a lot of grounding work to do, it seems.
Just a question. Why do truckers stick with the cb? Its very noisy with static. Why don't truckers convert to Crystal clear GMRS radios. Much better sound quality. Very reliable. No static to worry about. Please reply
Not sure what a GMRS radio is. But, you can't get most truckers to buy a cb anyway. So, don't think adding something else would help either. And, some trucking companies don't allow CBs in the trucks.
I have a 20,000 Watt K 40 antenna, end it makes kind of like a humming noise and the more I accelerate the more it does it, or the louder it gets, so I ended up taking it off…what do you think could be causing the problem? And as always thanks for your videos they are very informational keep up the good work.
You can try running a 1" ground strap from the alternator to the frame. And, if you really want to get carried away and get the most RF Bond the whole vehicle. I have a couple videos on that.
What’s up j rich, what if your interference is coming from your lights? I’ve done everything from grounding my antennas, to buying better coax cables, moving them to a different location. My next step is maybe wrapping my CB in aluminum foil😂 HELP!
Have you ever tried adding a capacitor on your power input? It should reduce your static massively. If you haven't try a combination of a high capacity slow response CBB capacitor in series with a low capacity fast response ceramic capacitor. Or just buy a good high cap ceramic capacitor with a low ESR
@@jerbyr3085 yeah, there usually is a massive amount of noise on the power line. I add capacitors to most equipment that is very sensitive to interference from its power lines. If you ever have the option you should hook up an oscilloscope to your 12V car output (or look up a video on youtube). If you also use a power splitter the noise can get really bad. You can also use low capacity capacitors in between your signal in and ground to cut some extra noise. I've build a button on the side of my CB radio that does this with 2 different capacitors. So I can switch between no low pass filter, mild low pass filter and strong low pass filter.
@@jerbyr3085 the signal line capacitor depends on the capacitance. You need to use a very low capacity on the signal side to make a low pass filter. All it does is filter out high frequency noise. Yes, there is some signal in there but it makes very weak signal more audible. Also, I don't actually put a capacitor on the input line. I put it between the volume control and ground so that high frequency sounds are filtered before amplification occurs. Less things that can go wrong. Also, I added the ability to turn off the filtering whenever I wish since this is only used for listening to weak signals or when I turned off the normal filtering system and I don't want to get disturbed too much by high frequency noise. As for the power line.... You want that input to be as smooth as possible as there isn't any real signal on there and you never want to hear that from your speaker. Your final goal is to keep your noise floor as low as possible and your signal as high as possible.
No avoiding static at my home base, i live 200ft from the regional 2kw TV mast handling 50+ tv channels and get a constant 8 pounds of it :( on the flip side, im so close to it, i dont need an antenna connected to my tv to pick up the channels lol
@@jrichtruckincbtips yeah, it sucks! Its the same on the rig in my car if im outside my house but rapidly clears if i drive away from the tower and eventually falls to zero but on my homebase there is nothing i can do about it. less than a quarter of a mile from my home i can hear people clearly in the car who are 18 miles away that i cannot hear at all on my homebase :(
I have tried them with no luck, some say to coil the coax then use large beads. But, you need a high quality coax to coil. I have found RF bonding to be the best solution and I have a video on that.
not all chargers do that, I had one that did, changing to a better grade helped, also ferrite snap ons will eliminate the issue cold, or torroid cores will eliminate that issue all together....can Google them to find out how to use them they work...
Also we have companies who move large loads though this aria . Oversize loads . The drivers can hardly hear each other . And they are amping up to compansate .
Not knowing your setup makes it difficult, and some RF interference is only fixable by eliminating what's causing it. That being said, running CB power and ground directly to the batteries, and grounding the antenna(s) can help. Noise filters can help from what I've heard, but I don't know what brand is best as I've never needed them. Thanks for watching.
If the coax cable is near some wires will it cuase interference? I couldn’t find any way to route the coax then through the hole that a ton of wires come from.
Most stock mics are junk. I like Astatic, love Ranger, and hear Stryker is pretty good. Here's a video comparing 5 different mics. Keep in mind that I had the volume too high through a cheap external speaker. Thanks for watching. ua-cam.com/video/zG65egoZwWM/v-deo.html
I get static sometime when i key up my mic. Bought a new mic and same thing might go a month working perfect other times its most of the day. I do do heavy haul so i have a bunch of led stobe lights so not sure if its something in the area or atmosphere no idea
LEDs have a big effect on the CB, ferrite chokes can help sometimes. Atmospheric conditions is another big factor, traffic lights , and businesses put off rf signals. Hopefully your antenna is properly grounded if not that is a factor as well. I have videos on that as well. Thanks for watching.
Ok thats cool and all, I already knew that, but my question is how do you fix it. You could have spent 1 minute telling us all the chargers cause static and 8 minutes telling us what to do to fix it. I need my phone and GPS plugged so now what?
Or, you could make your own video. Then you could teach us all about static, and CB related issues. I have faith that you can save the world from static and bad UA-cam videos.👍
buy one of those portable power packs for charging cell phones and powering devices. charge it up when your sleeping and should work all day for a GPS and your phone.
I have a cobra 29 LTD Chrome. It's suppose to pushes 4 watt! Why is mine only throwing out 2 watts. Is that something burnt out in the radio brand new coax cable
So what happens if I’m able to hear people just fine but all I send out is static??? I had an a cobra 18 at work that was working perfectly fine then hooked up a midland handheld CB radio through my antenna now bought a new Midland and no one can hear me speak out of it just pure static each time I hit the mic
Thanks for watching! I'm really not familiar with handhelds. If it were a regular CB I'd start with the mic, swr, coax, then antenna. Just changing the radio should never effect swr though.
If anyone can help me out that would be awesome! My cb is staticy and almost all the channels bleed together, I’ve tried two different cobras ltd classics one from the 90s and one from like last month. Everything has a good grounding and I don’t get why I get so much static and why they bleed together! The cb is routed directly to the battery and wether the cars on or off the cb sounds the same! Any help would be awesome!
I have a 12 volt plug for my CB radio and it only services by CB radio what I can't figure out is in certain areas it's normal no real static nothing but then for like hours it's just like screaming static and I have all my stuff running like normal when it is quiet and I have it connected to an antenna that I installed and I believe I did it correctly no idea what's going on
Without knowing anymore about the system and what you're using and the condition of it or the vehicle. There's some static interfaces you can get rid of. If you're a trucker, the inverter is a big interface you can pick up other trucks inverters and LEDs. RF bonding will greatly help reduce these interfaces, I have 2 videos on it.
@@jrichtruckincbtips I'm a trucker and I drive a Freightliner when you say converter do you mean a power converter inside the truck? If so I'm not using it to power my CD radio I am going to try to ground the CD antenna and my CB radio is road King I was told it was a good brand
@@bigt4490 it doesn't matter that you're not using it to power the radio, the fact of it just being on just blasts the cb system with static. Just grounding the antenna won't do much on the Cascadia. Watch this video it greatly improves your system and you'll need to retune the antenna after. ua-cam.com/video/ohkOX45dJn0/v-deo.html
Dude I've been trying to get my CB working all month with no luck. This is my first real winter so I want a CB for when conditions get bad. Your videos are a help. So far I got a bird perch, cobra 29lx, 4' firestik and 4 bolt clamp I got from loves. Got home time coming up so I ordered a multimeter and a ground strap. Hoping when I hit otr after home time I can get this thing running.
Oh also I have an ANL and a NB/ANL. when I had my antenna laying across the dash I actually had clear reception and about a quarter mile range. With it on the mount it's pure static and like 100' range. Anyway what's better, ANL or NB/ANL Tomorrow I'll run with the charger unhooked. I noticed when my codriver uses the microwave in the sleeper I get a signal too l
NB/ANL is fine. Sounds like you are in a Freightliner, yes? Run the ground strap from the perch to the firewall. Check the resistance and ground of the coax with the meter. The 4' firestick will do, but the taller the better. Check out my video "best antennas for a Kenworth " there is a link in the description for Skip Shooter antennas. There you can buy a 6' or 7' Skip Shooter for the price of the 4' firestick. And, they are also more durable. Thanks for watching.
Very well could be. Sometimes you have to sit with everything except for the truck off. Then hit switches, buttons, and plug ins one at a time, till you find what's doing it.
There's so many things that cause static in the cb. Like bad ground, LEDs, chargers, refrigerator, and then the things we can't help, atmosphere conditions, businesses, and traffic lights. All these can effect static in the radio. Thanks for watching.
@@jrichtruckincbtips yeah I know what you mean. About a week ago I figured out what was causing a lot of the static and it was a cheap phone plug like the one in your video. I unplugged that and it helped a lot but still have static. I’ve had my current truck for over 3 years and have tried about 5 different CBs, several different brands of coax and antennas and it still just doesn’t work like it should. Currently I’m running a Stryker 655 with a Wilson 2000 antenna. It doesn’t work near as good as it should. I had it wired straight to the battery and then someone told me to ground it straight to the frame so I did that and it made no difference. If my truck is rolling, my cb is always on and it just gets so aggravating sometimes. Every time I upgrade radios in my truck (2013 Peterbilt 389) I put the old radio in my pickup and they work great. I don’t know what else to do. Thanks for the response.
@@turkfebruary5836 I really don't care for the Wilson's. I love my fiberglass Skip Shooter top load antenna. They work a lot better. Have you tried making a ground cable to ground the antenna to the frame? It works wonders! Check out this video on how I did my Freightliner. ua-cam.com/video/TqQ5KJsnw3s/v-deo.html Then here one on making your own cable. ua-cam.com/video/9rzvfheIjpE/v-deo.html
@@jrichtruckincbtips no I haven’t tried that. The guy at the cb shop where I bought my Stryker went over my cb antenna, mount, and coax and my swr is very low but I’ll check out that video.
@@turkfebruary5836 I had done the same on another truck, new coax, great radio, and tested multiple antennas. Found this best SWR for that truck with a fiberglass top load firestik 1.2 (but they break easy). But, couldn't hear far way and high static. After switching to a Skip Shooter (very flexible non broke yet) and proper antenna grounding static stays low and can hear a lot farther. You can get Skip Shooter antennas for about $30 from antennapartsoutlet.com
Like I told you Dear or components inside radio anything you get next to it will leak the CB shop to do so much if you talk to him what I’ve been telling you I’ll tell you what I was talking about specially if you got a rig role as equipment sure you gonna pick it up
I'm sorry , yes , I understand . Well cell phone s operate on the cb band . The FCC doesn't know that they are disturbing commerce . And the cell company doesn't care .
you using to moth schit my frend .o,ley the cb radio and a verry good asusment antenna dis making the differend corektley mont ofcourse more dan 40 exspeareings learn me a loth !!!!
The only way to find if it's really something in the house is unplug everything, and then plug stuff back in one at a time. Or, it could be a bad ground of the antenna. Hope you get it figured out.
Get a noise filter if your powering a 12 volt radio with a power supply. If it's an AC base with an internal transformer then the interference is being induced thru your antenna. Check that your coax is not in contact with other electronic devices or near electrical cords. Make sure your antenna isnt near power lines. If theres high voltage transmission lines within a couple hundred yards of your antenna you cant fix it.
Loving your content mate. Thanks so much for helping me learn CB for my truck. Late in life semi retired learning truck and CB so thanks for sharing your hard earned knowledge
Thanks for watching
@@jrichtruckincbtips😅
One of my USB phone chargers at my house gives me 2-3 S-units in my DX 2547. Great video sir.
Thank you for sharing that phone charger static issue!
Cobra 29. Small refrigerator was giving a lot of static. Thanks for the video
I have large mini trucking fridge in the sleeper. Just installed a cobra 29lx. Trying to figure out how to reduce the static.
Here’s an old trick to find electromagnetic interference with a radio install. Take a cheap hand held/portable AM/FM radio, cheaper ones are more susceptible to interference. Turn on your radio rig, then turn on the radio to a localish AM station. Hold the radio up to the whole radio install from the tip of the antenna, all along the antenna wire, and all the way to the CB. The radio will freak out with static when near a magnetic interference. You can use this to find any electromagnetic source all over the vehicle that may be causing you trouble.
USB cables can carry RF and act like an antenna. Get a high quality screened cable and make sure you ground it is grounded. Also ground the case of the CB radio. EDIT: Keep cable runs as short as possible.
@Westley Nicolas your right nobody gives a shit you idiot
@Cyrus Uriel You and Westley are the same person we aren't stupid here. You are both reported
Have you tried using ferite beads as a line choke. Also, the very length of some cords may become resonant at higher frequencies relative to other communication modes such as vhf, uhf, microwave, etc. I ground everything separate and bead coax near the antenna source . Also, Don't use cheap coax, it only causes headaches and shortens the life of your finals.
Wow Who would have known
L.O.L. Great Vlog Keep making the CHANEL Grow thanks for the info
Did you ever try to touch the antenna while having a lot of static? The power coming in to the antenna (voltage) somehow gets mixed signals. But if you physically touch it or connect a little 2 core wire (looped) static disappears. You can turn down the squelch almost completely. This really works !
I don't have that truck anymore. Please explain this 2 core wire thing you speak of.
I was just doing this. The damn antenna static stops when I touch the antenna
@@yungkidd94 cause your raising the SWR = signal loss
Yeah I used to work for Schneider and my truck not only had a bad antenna, but they put the CB mounts right on the dash, right where the stereo is, two 12v plugs, I had my 12v cooler, and my built in fridge. So much shit for static, it was pretty bad. Nothing I could do though because I needed a phone charger, and my GPS tablet power plugged in.
Ugh, everything on a 12v plug! At least they had CBs
I use the usb port on my am/fm radio to charge my phone instead of the cigarette lighter plug... It's the low power charge but generates no noiseon my cb radio. Also if you want lower noise, get a Stryker 655
LED lights put out a crap ton of RF. The diode in the lights cause it. You can clear up your signal by installing an inline noise filter on your power supply. Even if you dont think your having much RF interference youd be amazed how quiet the static becomes with a filter. Less RF/static means you can hear distant and faint transmissions better.
Very true. I have this problem in my personal truck with the led headlights and the FM radio .
What is the best inline filter to use on a General Lee HP 40, pushing triple digit modulation?
@@bryanwesley154 have you isolated what is making noise interference in your radio? Led lights on? Headlights on? Engine running or not? Do not key up your radio during this test. Unscrew your antenna coaxial. Does the interference noise continue with the antenna disconnected? If so then many in line filters would work. Google Walcott Radio Bandit CB filter. If the noise completely disappears with the antenna disconnected even though you get a bunch of static when your lights are on, the interference is probably a bad antenna connection. A poor antenna ground or your coaxial cable is routed too close to a source of electrical disturbance like an alternator or a heavy flow of electricity thru wiring like near an engine control module or battery cables. Sometimes a fuse box is an electronic magnetic storm of interference. Your coax should be 18 feet in length. If your splitting between two antennas you should have 9 feet of coax to each antenna. The connections must be clean of any grime, paint or corrosion. The extra length of coax needs to be coiled up so the two ends flow in one side and out the other side. A rats nest of wire will cause electromagnetic disturbances. Remember and electric motor or alternator is a coil of wire with an electromagnetic field flowing thru it. Your dealing with sensitive circuitry in your radio so these little details are very huge in making a clean signal. Good luck.
Had that problem instead it was a a/c plug to a two prong plug. Once I pull the adaptor off it stopped.
Thanks for an informative video. it will help me troubleshoot static around my base station CB!
You sir are awesome wish I would have watched before spending a lot of money fixed my problem!!!!! 👍😁😎
Thank for watching. And check out some of my other CB videos.
What happened did you bought 25 CB radios to try to fix each one of them🤭😂
I currently have my cheap old realistic cb in my car. I have it plugged into my cigarette lighter. Is there a benefit to just wiring it to the battery? Is there less interference? Your channel is very helpful, thanks for the great videos.
Wiring to the battery will help, with 8ga cable for that long of a run. RF bonding the vehicle greatly reduces interferences, just apply this video to your vehicle.
ua-cam.com/video/ohkOX45dJn0/v-deo.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Common mode current is a big problem. Bad grounds too.
Do you pick up a buzz off certain power lines? Not all but some power lines I drive along beside I have to turn the volume down until I get off that street in the big rig. Some buildings cause a lot of static like downtown where I'm close at a red light.
The ham folks say that ground and power strait from the battery help reduce noise but I haven't tried it yet.
My cellphone charger also does the same thing. I have to turn the RF gain way down to tolerate it.
Stryker 955 here.
Yes, there's no way to get away from all of it. But RF bonding the vehicle can greatly help, watch this video ua-cam.com/video/J6PJyw6jh2M/v-deo.html With the 955 you should be going to a the battery or power lug in the fuse box and the negative to the frame or a ground on the body. The 955 can also benefit from upgrading the power cord from Big Rig Radios out of Phoenix AZ
@@jrichtruckincbtips Ok thx man! Ill check out the link.
Would adding ferrite core chokes reduce static? If so, where should the chokes be placed?
Thank you.
Hey brother love you videos question for you I have a CB base station with Antron 99 worked fine until the last couple weeks now,,, excessive static you can turn everything in the house off all appliances and still having static ninety-nine percent of the time it's static a lot of static I can't seem to pinn it down got a Conex 566 use it as a base station and a T or C 427 same results nothing has changed with my coax or my 99. Any suggestions thank you
Possibly a loose connection between the radio and coax. And I'd be checking the coax for continuity.
My dadgum cb does the opposite.
I had my phone charger cable layin over my footwarmers jumper coax..(100 watt with 1 watt goin in). When i keyed up, Apparantly it started activating apps as if i was tapping random icons on my phone. I thought i had fried my i-phone because along with 7-8 apps running it had went into my settings, display, contrast and turned my brightness to zero, so my screen was totally blank. 😂😂😂
Took me a while to figure out what had happened. Lol so now im careful about wire placement.
I have the same thing going on but with my rear camera to the dash/mirror camera in my pickup. It's external and installed on the rollbar, right next to my CB antenna. I was "smart" and installed the lot together along with lights and other circuits in a single conduit running through the firewall grommet and down along the chassis to the back. When I key in the dash cam freaks out with static first, but then goes and switches modes and settings and eventually reboots. But that's not even the scary part. The scary part for me is the 20ish RPM drop in engine speed when I key in. And I don't have an amp. I'm only doing 4 watts!
I have a lot of grounding work to do, it seems.
Have 2 5’ skip shooters what radio do you recommend what some that put outs real good . Also good receive
Ranger or Stryker
Just a question. Why do truckers stick with the cb? Its very noisy with static. Why don't truckers convert to Crystal clear GMRS radios. Much better sound quality. Very reliable. No static to worry about. Please reply
Not sure what a GMRS radio is. But, you can't get most truckers to buy a cb anyway. So, don't think adding something else would help either. And, some trucking companies don't allow CBs in the trucks.
This dude would be a cool Dad 💪🏻
Thanks! Where is the power cord from the radio hooked up to?
Straight to the batteries.
I have a 20,000 Watt K 40 antenna, end it makes kind of like a humming noise and the more I accelerate the more it does it, or the louder it gets, so I ended up taking it off…what do you think could be causing the problem?
And as always thanks for your videos they are very informational keep up the good work.
You can try running a 1" ground strap from the alternator to the frame. And, if you really want to get carried away and get the most RF Bond the whole vehicle. I have a couple videos on that.
Wow I had know idea, thanks driver
What’s up j rich, what if your interference is coming from your lights? I’ve done everything from grounding my antennas, to buying better coax cables, moving them to a different location. My next step is maybe wrapping my CB in aluminum foil😂 HELP!
RF bonding will help with the lights, even if it's a car or pickup. ua-cam.com/video/J6PJyw6jh2M/v-deo.html
Have you ever tried adding a capacitor on your power input? It should reduce your static massively. If you haven't try a combination of a high capacity slow response CBB capacitor in series with a low capacity fast response ceramic capacitor. Or just buy a good high cap ceramic capacitor with a low ESR
@@jerbyr3085 yeah, there usually is a massive amount of noise on the power line. I add capacitors to most equipment that is very sensitive to interference from its power lines.
If you ever have the option you should hook up an oscilloscope to your 12V car output (or look up a video on youtube). If you also use a power splitter the noise can get really bad.
You can also use low capacity capacitors in between your signal in and ground to cut some extra noise. I've build a button on the side of my CB radio that does this with 2 different capacitors. So I can switch between no low pass filter, mild low pass filter and strong low pass filter.
@@jerbyr3085 the signal line capacitor depends on the capacitance. You need to use a very low capacity on the signal side to make a low pass filter. All it does is filter out high frequency noise. Yes, there is some signal in there but it makes very weak signal more audible. Also, I don't actually put a capacitor on the input line. I put it between the volume control and ground so that high frequency sounds are filtered before amplification occurs. Less things that can go wrong. Also, I added the ability to turn off the filtering whenever I wish since this is only used for listening to weak signals or when I turned off the normal filtering system and I don't want to get disturbed too much by high frequency noise.
As for the power line.... You want that input to be as smooth as possible as there isn't any real signal on there and you never want to hear that from your speaker.
Your final goal is to keep your noise floor as low as possible and your signal as high as possible.
Thanks for your inputs from Ontario Canada
No avoiding static at my home base, i live 200ft from the regional 2kw TV mast handling 50+ tv channels and get a constant 8 pounds of it :(
on the flip side, im so close to it, i dont need an antenna connected to my tv to pick up the channels lol
That's a lot of constant static!
@@jrichtruckincbtips yeah, it sucks!
Its the same on the rig in my car if im outside my house but rapidly clears if i drive away from the tower and eventually falls to zero but on my homebase there is nothing i can do about it.
less than a quarter of a mile from my home i can hear people clearly in the car who are 18 miles away that i cannot hear at all on my homebase :(
Do you think ferrite beads on the cables would help out at all?
I have tried them with no luck, some say to coil the coax then use large beads. But, you need a high quality coax to coil. I have found RF bonding to be the best solution and I have a video on that.
not all chargers do that, I had one that did, changing to a better grade helped, also ferrite snap ons will eliminate the issue cold, or torroid cores will eliminate that issue all together....can Google them to find out how to use them they work...
Haven't had any luck with ferrite cores, but RF bonding does wonders.
Also we have companies who move large loads though this aria . Oversize loads . The drivers can hardly hear each other . And they are amping up to compansate .
Question.
I hear my heater fan, and my windshield wiper motor through my cb radio. Any ideas as to how to isolate it?
Not knowing your setup makes it difficult, and some RF interference is only fixable by eliminating what's causing it. That being said, running CB power and ground directly to the batteries, and grounding the antenna(s) can help. Noise filters can help from what I've heard, but I don't know what brand is best as I've never needed them. Thanks for watching.
@@jrichtruckincbtips could an improperly ground cause this noise to occur? I'll try re-grounding it and I'll let you know.
My HID headlights cause a lot of static.
The new led headlights zap my radio, I get an s3 on the meter for the noise floor when they're on.
Connected straight to the battery and that battery have the alternator charge that battery That illuminate a lot of it
That truck and radio was connected straight to the battery. But, yeah that helps.
@@jrichtruckincbtips Sorry I didn’t know
If the coax cable is near some wires will it cuase interference? I couldn’t find any way to route the coax then through the hole that a ton of wires come from.
Yes, with cheap coax. Check all connections are tight and no corrosion.
great video really appreciate it. curious to see what things do to mine now i'll be paying attention t oit.
If you get a radio would it be best just to keep the stock mike?
Most stock mics are junk. I like Astatic, love Ranger, and hear Stryker is pretty good. Here's a video comparing 5 different mics. Keep in mind that I had the volume too high through a cheap external speaker. Thanks for watching. ua-cam.com/video/zG65egoZwWM/v-deo.html
@@jrichtruckincbtips That's a big 10, catch you on the flip.
Is your refrigerator running
Will static from my inverter affect the way I receive signal and will it affect the way someone else hears me when I am transmitting?
Yes, and possibly yes.
@@jrichtruckincbtips is there anyway to try and reduce the static coming in?
@@orlandogallegos2127 RF Bonding will greatly reduce rf interfaces. ua-cam.com/video/J6PJyw6jh2M/v-deo.html
I get static sometime when i key up my mic. Bought a new mic and same thing might go a month working perfect other times its most of the day. I do do heavy haul so i have a bunch of led stobe lights so not sure if its something in the area or atmosphere no idea
LEDs have a big effect on the CB, ferrite chokes can help sometimes. Atmospheric conditions is another big factor, traffic lights , and businesses put off rf signals. Hopefully your antenna is properly grounded if not that is a factor as well. I have videos on that as well. Thanks for watching.
Cqn you use one of these in your home. If so what kind of port do you need? Thanks
You just need a power supply to convert 110v to DC volts
I get enough static from my ex wife lol 😂
It goes like that!😂
Ok thats cool and all, I already knew that, but my question is how do you fix it. You could have spent 1 minute telling us all the chargers cause static and 8 minutes telling us what to do to fix it. I need my phone and GPS plugged so now what?
Or, you could make your own video. Then you could teach us all about static, and CB related issues. I have faith that you can save the world from static and bad UA-cam videos.👍
thats what i was waiting for.lol
buy one of those portable power packs for charging cell phones and powering devices. charge it up when your sleeping and should work all day for a GPS and your phone.
I have a cobra 29 LTD Chrome. It's suppose to pushes 4 watt! Why is mine only throwing out 2 watts. Is that something burnt out in the radio brand new coax cable
in perfect condition(s), yes 4 watts. take it to a cb shop and have then look it over.
@@jrichtruckincbtips thanks
I'm sorry , I cut short my comment . There is a cell tower and it plays havoc with cb on channel 30 , 27.;305 mhz .
I get 7 s units of static everyday driving. 1.3 swr. Does the same thing with my truck on or off
RF bonding will take care of that, I'm telling you it works.
@@jrichtruckincbtips never heard of it
@@Fox250R ua-cam.com/video/J6PJyw6jh2M/v-deo.html
Where do you keep your squelch and rf gain.
RF gain is all the way to the right (wide open) and squelch usually have i turned up enough so I only hear the upper half of the meter.
Problem cured. Thanks!!!!
Thanks for watching.
Awesome. Ty ty ty
Thank you! Helped me!
So what happens if I’m able to hear people just fine but all I send out is static??? I had an a cobra 18 at work that was working perfectly fine then hooked up a midland handheld CB radio through my antenna now bought a new Midland and no one can hear me speak out of it just pure static each time I hit the mic
Thanks for watching! I'm really not familiar with handhelds. If it were a regular CB I'd start with the mic, swr, coax, then antenna. Just changing the radio should never effect swr though.
I have same problem. It's my led breather lights that creates a lot of static
Is it normal that I have my squelch all the way to the left and I don’t hear any static? That wasn’t the case a few days ago, any advice?
Nope, doesn't sound normal unless you have a DSP speaker. As long as you are still receiving, and SWRs are good. I don't think I'd worry about.
If you open the radio you would see some components have a shield over it next to CB shop why
And what is it telling you to put in the same line
Can you change the colour on that radio besides green
Yes
I have had a massive noise level on my CB Base Station, until today when I turned off my computer. Now the noise level is almost non-existent.
It's just a process of elimination most of the time.
interesting... great video
Cool video
What if you’re not hearing static but the people you’re speaking to are hearing static while you’re talking?
Good question
Bad mic
Ok another question
My needle is all the way to the left and when I squash it all the left and the needle don't move but I do have static
@@Rustyhandle the needle is stuck and not swinging freely. CB shops charge about $10 for an internal cleaning.
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thank you for your video
Thanks for watching.
If anyone can help me out that would be awesome! My cb is staticy and almost all the channels bleed together, I’ve tried two different cobras ltd classics one from the 90s and one from like last month. Everything has a good grounding and I don’t get why I get so much static and why they bleed together! The cb is routed directly to the battery and wether the cars on or off the cb sounds the same! Any help would be awesome!
More than likely not the radio, it's the antenna system.
You got to have a person CB shop go inside change some of the filters
I have a 12 volt plug for my CB radio and it only services by CB radio what I can't figure out is in certain areas it's normal no real static nothing but then for like hours it's just like screaming static and I have all my stuff running like normal when it is quiet and I have it connected to an antenna that I installed and I believe I did it correctly no idea what's going on
Without knowing anymore about the system and what you're using and the condition of it or the vehicle. There's some static interfaces you can get rid of. If you're a trucker, the inverter is a big interface you can pick up other trucks inverters and LEDs. RF bonding will greatly help reduce these interfaces, I have 2 videos on it.
@@jrichtruckincbtips I'm a trucker and I drive a Freightliner when you say converter do you mean a power converter inside the truck? If so I'm not using it to power my CD radio I am going to try to ground the CD antenna and my CB radio is road King I was told it was a good brand
@@bigt4490 it doesn't matter that you're not using it to power the radio, the fact of it just being on just blasts the cb system with static. Just grounding the antenna won't do much on the Cascadia. Watch this video it greatly improves your system and you'll need to retune the antenna after. ua-cam.com/video/ohkOX45dJn0/v-deo.html
Dude I've been trying to get my CB working all month with no luck. This is my first real winter so I want a CB for when conditions get bad. Your videos are a help.
So far I got a bird perch, cobra 29lx, 4' firestik and 4 bolt clamp I got from loves.
Got home time coming up so I ordered a multimeter and a ground strap. Hoping when I hit otr after home time I can get this thing running.
Oh also I have an ANL and a NB/ANL. when I had my antenna laying across the dash I actually had clear reception and about a quarter mile range. With it on the mount it's pure static and like 100' range. Anyway what's better, ANL or NB/ANL
Tomorrow I'll run with the charger unhooked. I noticed when my codriver uses the microwave in the sleeper I get a signal too l
NB/ANL is fine. Sounds like you are in a Freightliner, yes? Run the ground strap from the perch to the firewall. Check the resistance and ground of the coax with the meter. The 4' firestick will do, but the taller the better.
Check out my video "best antennas for a Kenworth " there is a link in the description for Skip Shooter antennas. There you can buy a 6' or 7' Skip Shooter for the price of the 4' firestick. And, they are also more durable. Thanks for watching.
That thing is not a problem I could plug my phone I could plug my iPad with the radio you got to go directly to the battery
My air release is causing me to have to turn back my RF gain way back don't know what to do
That's a new one. Try running a ground strap from the back of the radio to the body of the truck.
That might be my whole static problem.
Very well could be. Sometimes you have to sit with everything except for the truck off. Then hit switches, buttons, and plug ins one at a time, till you find what's doing it.
I’ve had this problem for 3 years and it drives me insane.
There's so many things that cause static in the cb. Like bad ground, LEDs, chargers, refrigerator, and then the things we can't help, atmosphere conditions, businesses, and traffic lights. All these can effect static in the radio. Thanks for watching.
@@jrichtruckincbtips yeah I know what you mean. About a week ago I figured out what was causing a lot of the static and it was a cheap phone plug like the one in your video. I unplugged that and it helped a lot but still have static. I’ve had my current truck for over 3 years and have tried about 5 different CBs, several different brands of coax and antennas and it still just doesn’t work like it should. Currently I’m running a Stryker 655 with a Wilson 2000 antenna. It doesn’t work near as good as it should. I had it wired straight to the battery and then someone told me to ground it straight to the frame so I did that and it made no difference. If my truck is rolling, my cb is always on and it just gets so aggravating sometimes. Every time I upgrade radios in my truck (2013 Peterbilt 389) I put the old radio in my pickup and they work great. I don’t know what else to do. Thanks for the response.
@@turkfebruary5836 I really don't care for the Wilson's. I love my fiberglass Skip Shooter top load antenna. They work a lot better. Have you tried making a ground cable to ground the antenna to the frame? It works wonders! Check out this video on how I did my Freightliner. ua-cam.com/video/TqQ5KJsnw3s/v-deo.html
Then here one on making your own cable. ua-cam.com/video/9rzvfheIjpE/v-deo.html
@@jrichtruckincbtips no I haven’t tried that. The guy at the cb shop where I bought my Stryker went over my cb antenna, mount, and coax and my swr is very low but I’ll check out that video.
@@turkfebruary5836 I had done the same on another truck, new coax, great radio, and tested multiple antennas. Found this best SWR for that truck with a fiberglass top load firestik 1.2 (but they break easy). But, couldn't hear far way and high static. After switching to a Skip Shooter (very flexible non broke yet) and proper antenna grounding static stays low and can hear a lot farther. You can get Skip Shooter antennas for about $30 from antennapartsoutlet.com
That's crazy
Like I told you Dear or components inside radio anything you get next to it will leak the CB shop to do so much if you talk to him what I’ve been telling you I’ll tell you what I was talking about specially if you got a rig role as equipment sure you gonna pick it up
My static is coming from my ELD so IDK what to do
I just found my doppelganger
Maybe you're the one everyone tells me I look like? 👍
I dont have any static. Not working at all.
If the radio is not on at all, check fuses, if the radio is on, but have no send and receive, take it to a cb shop.
I'm sorry , yes , I understand . Well cell phone s operate on the cb band . The FCC doesn't know that they are disturbing commerce . And the cell company doesn't care .
MY Radio came
with a USB port. now that I saw this video I think maybe they are trying top preempt a customer with a static complaint.
I doubt the radios USB is causing any static. RF bonding will help cure most static issues. I have videos on rf bonding.
This isn't stayic.this is known as rfi induction parallel induction do to how u have it set up
Holly macro you're right.
Come in come on 👍
you using to moth schit my frend .o,ley the cb radio and a verry good asusment antenna dis making the differend corektley mont ofcourse more dan 40 exspeareings learn me a loth !!!!
OK I won’t ask you which will my radio can you buy me one
I'm having a similar issue but in my house not in my vehicle
The only way to find if it's really something in the house is unplug everything, and then plug stuff back in one at a time. Or, it could be a bad ground of the antenna. Hope you get it figured out.
Get a noise filter if your powering a 12 volt radio with a power supply. If it's an AC base with an internal transformer then the interference is being induced thru your antenna. Check that your coax is not in contact with other electronic devices or near electrical cords. Make sure your antenna isnt near power lines. If theres high voltage transmission lines within a couple hundred yards of your antenna you cant fix it.
I am glad I have no cellular phone.
Thats alternator draw.
And of course it bleeds over onto other channels .
Up my way the cell company has an
They're going to bleed all over band soon .
GMRS
Ground it , and the antennas .
It's all grounded. I have a video of how to do that. You should watch it.
Chokes
Here is a demo of what LED headlights do to a cb radio ua-cam.com/video/lsuGabbesqU/v-deo.html
Learn what RF chokes.
Those don't always work
Galaxy radios are very noisy.
Could be, but big trucks have lots of interferences.
Dpnt let a kid with a rc car lol 😅
sun cycle...... lol