67Dart273 said

Actually, marine VHF is not CB. LOL. You are probably talking about what is known as a UHF connector, which is used on CB radios? So the radio looks like this?



Now the male end must fit (be made for) specific coax cable types and there "are a few." RG-58, RG8, and others look on the coax and see if it's lettered, or look in the destructions for the antenna if you have them.

If that all fails post a photo of the cable, and an accurate caliper of the OD of the cable.

And, there are variations on them, IE old school solder on, crimp on, solderless, and lower quality like Radio Shack sells.

Marine 16 channel is VHF, so you want a good quality set up for the antenna and coax and connections.

This is one type of "decent" UHF connector, crimp the shield, and solder the center:



This is the "root original" of this connector, known as a PL-259, made for the military around WWII. All other types are incorrectly called that, more correctly a UHF connector. These originally soldered onto the "big" RG-8 cable "back then" in the 40's



The little bushings shown below, came "after" the original above. These are used to install RG-58 or RG-59 into the original type connector. There WAS NO small cable when the original connector was first produced

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