Should you be using NGP Equipment?

If you try to use standard ground-based CB equipment with a vehicle that needs a No-Ground Plane antenna, you'll experience both high SWR levels and extremely poor performance. Vehicles that require no-ground plane CB equipment:

• Have a fiberglass shell or coating over much or all of the vehicle
• Have little or no metallic chassis for the antenna to be grounded to

Vehicles that should use no-ground plane equipment include:

• Motorhomes and large fiberglass coaches
• Camper shells where the antenna is mounted directly to the fiberglass (instead of the vehicle)
• Boats
• Motorcycles with little or no ground plane

In these circumstances and with these vehicles, NGP equipment should be used. Please note, NGP installations require a special NGP coax and antenna. Using either a ground-based coax cable OR a ground-base antenna will cause problems. While NGP antennas and coax cable are available for sale separately, they are usually purchase in a complete kit form.

For more information, please refer to our No-Ground Plane CB Antennas.

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