2015 Freightliner Cascadia Antenna Issues

[craig_sez]

Run thicker gauged wire..Use short lengths and attach to as many a possible metal points..

Ex....mirror arm to door hinge on dor side....Door side hinge to cab side hinge..Cab side hinge to chassie..

I have seen zero diff when useing one long length....With a few short length at say 8-12ga my swr came down and i got rid of alot of so called white noise and gained reciption..Oh i discovered that my ant stud was junk to..Look for that beefy allumium colored stud by wilson..When you lean the ant like i think i see in the pic,your tricking your radio into seeing a lower swr..All your doin after 15-25 degrees is sending your signal to miners..lol

Looks so effing stupid to see super trucker runnin down the road with ant pointing so low it looks like bull horns..

[jfogle01]

**UPDATE**

Well, I ended up completely removing the mirror bracket and Sanya completely new system. I fashioned a bracket to come up from the top handrail bolt on the drivers side rear of the sleeper. Off of that I attached a bar that extends from the airline hanger, across the top of the bracket and out the side of the sleeper approx. 8 inches. There I mounted a standard mirror bracket and my Wilson 2000 Trucker and a seperate 10ga ground wire from one of the bracket bolts over to and down the handrail to the bottom of the sleeper wall then over a few inches to one of the airline junction bolts, after removing the bolt wire-brushing the paint away for a solid metal-to-metal connection. I they ran a single 50 foot coax down the back wall, under the sleeper into the engine bay, through the firewall and up to the radio. I knew 50 would be too long but it is a friend's coax and I don't wanton cut it since I'll be giving it back once I get a custom cut 28 foot piece to replace it. Before this 50 foot piece, I tried an 18 don't and a 9 don't section connected with a barrel connector, but I still couldn't get the SWRs down. Turned out that I was losing too much RF through that barrel connection, so I replaced it. Anyway, after doing all of that and some trimming of the length while adjusting the SWR, I know have a 1.1:1 SWR on all channels with microscopic movement of the needle when checking various channels! Problem solved!!!!