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Thanks Robb and Wavrider for the responses! They are helping me narrow things down. No speaker wire for coax (impedance, duh, I should have known that), use a 75-ft 50ohm antenna coax for run, build own antenna, and bite the bullet now for the long run and buy a SSB radio, even if that's all I...

Yet again I know, nobody is going to reply for fear I will write a 10-page response :-)...I promise I won't! P.S. I do have an SWR meter and it does little to increase range despite all 3 channels being below 1.5.

See Above Sorry, I got so carried away hearing myself talk, I forgot to ask if I could make a simple, homemade dipole antenna out of the aforementioned speaker wire? If I could, that would save a few bucks. Thanks again everyone for your patience!

First time post! Probably not the last. It's been 15 years since I had a CB so bear with me as I stumble through knowing just enough to not know anything... I have a Realistic TRC-473 and a plain/no-brand, mag-mount car antenna. I have it set up in my 2nd-story apartment as my first base...