Setting up a Homebase CB Aerial

Setting up a Home base CB Aerial

Setting up a home base aerial can be a much more involved project than installing an aerial in your car.  As well as the aerial itself you will need the various D clamps, mounting brackets and poles to enable you to safely fix your aerial where it will give you the best reception.

The aerial should ideally be higher than the roof tops of any nearby buildings and are best suited to being attached to a chimney stack or raised up on an aerial mast.  Special attention should be paid to how the aerial will be fixed as in high winds and storms it needs to remain firmly in position and not be at risk of falling or breaking once it is in position.

Assembling the Aerial

 Lay your aerial out connecting each of its sections into itself using the jubilee clips provided.  Each section is likely to be marked with a line telling you what length it should be set to.

Once each section is added and the assembly is complete we can begin to add the clamps and posts needed to put the aerial into its final position.

Using the D clamps provided we can now secure the base of the aerial to its supporting pole and add the remaining sections of the aerial to it.

Now we can raise the whole aerial into its final position.  Remember before raising it to any height you must first attach the coaxial cable before you raise the aerial out of reach.

 This counts double when swring in the aerial by making adjustments to the overall length of the aerial.

The final height of your aerial is very important to the range you are likely to achieve when using your radio.  It may be useful to invest in additional length of mast to elevate your aerial to the best possible height as this will help improve its performance.

Now that everything is in its final position it is worth doing more tests to check the swr of the aerial before attaching any radio equipment especially if you plan to run radios with higher outputs or running any signal amplication equipment. 

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Setting up a Home base CB Aerial 

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