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I don't think I'd run a co-ax out through a vacant mirror hole. You might want to service it someday, replace it if cut. Ends are replaceable but demand care. Find a friend with a SWR meter too.
QSL cards, 3s to you. My dad did ham & mobile radio in west Texas, towers out in the rough, maintained TDPS and local SO and PD radios, even had a shop there in Del Rio. Moved to Va., he got out of Ham and into CBs too. Remember those Johnsons, even the Messenger III and 323. I still have some of the radios, even a old "Black Face" Johnson. It used Crystals, only slots for like 7 or 9 channels, Antenna Specialist base loads or 102" whips, etc. Weren't but 23 channels reserved for CB then with 15 used for "hailing" then you took the convo to a private channel, later was expanded to 40 and soon truckers took over 19. In the '60s, had to study / learn FCC Part 95. I can recall him calling Mom to let her know he was on the way home, still 25-30 miles away on those old radios. We had a base in the kitchen and a big beam on the roof as well as a ground plane. CB clubs were a thing too.
I hear ya i wouldnt drill the hole bigger or cut it or anything either. I will have to find somebody with a SWR im not sure but my dads work may have one maybe he works for the electrical company. Im looking at this coax cable on amazon for 25 dollars its made by wilson and it has a removable PL-259 that screws onto a FME connector im not sure how big it is but i might spend the money to see if it could fit through that bolts hole without modification my truck had factory door speakers so getting it through wont be a problem.
Back in the old days, for mirror mounting, people would drill a hole in the door and run the coax out to the mirror through a rubber grommet, or notch out the wing window weatherstrip and run it out that way.
I mounted my Firestik at the left front corner of the bed on an aluminum corner bracket and ran the coax into the cab from underneath through an existing rubber body plug.
Back in the old days, for mirror mounting, people would drill a hole in the door and run the coax out to the mirror through a rubber grommet, or notch out the wing window weatherstrip and run it out that way.
I mounted my Firestik at the left front corner of the bed on an aluminum corner bracket and ran the coax into the cab from underneath through an existing rubber body plug.
Yeah i saw your posts i like it does it wack the cab much or no because even though my paint is who knows how old i dont want it chipped or scrached and i do a decent amount of offroading. I might look in the weather strip for the wind wing.
Yeah i saw your posts i like it does it wack the cab much or no because even though my paint is who knows how old i dont want it chipped or scrached and i do a decent amount of offroading. I might look in the weather strip for the wind wing.
The Firestik is pretty stiff, so you'd have to really bounce it around to make it hit the cab. If you're not concerned about looks, you could bend the antenna over, determine where it would hit the cab, and install several layers of heat-shrinkable tubing on the antenna shaft at that point. The tubing would act as a "bumper" to keep the cab paint from being chipped. Rubber tubing, like windshield washer tubing or fuel line, would work also, if you can find just the right inside diameter to fit snugly onto the antenna shaft so it will stay in place.
If a bed rail top mounted Firestick hits the forward slanting "Dent" cab, it broke ... or the mount did.. I've run them, even at high speed. I never seen one broke that wasn't hit hard.
We used to run 102" whips on spring mounts too, used a gutter clip to pull it down sometimes on cars.
Earlier today, I *tried* to bend my Firestik enough so that it would hit the cab. Impossible without breaking it! I got within about 4 inches of the cab before I decided it was too expensive to risk.
Stitches from shock, or from laughing too hard?😁
A center of the roof mount is actually one of the best locations.
It’s up high, it’s away from most obstacles that block a signal, and it’s centered in one of the best ground planes on a truck.
I like mirror mounts (especially duals) and I like the mounts at the edge of the hood, but other than getting knocked around a bit, a roof mount makes sense.
If you don’t mind drilling a hole that is. 🙄😉😁
Then again, that’s what magnetic base mounts are for.
I know that this is an ancient thread but it appears to be brought back to life. This the cab of my 72. I had my CB mounted in the center and my Buck knife had a mount on the side of it., behind the headliner there is a block of wood cut to fit over the roof support there that the bracket is screwed into. My truck had a hole in the passenger side pillar and a mount above that on the same side for the antenna. It had a wire antenna on it when I got it, I mounted a 36" fibreglass antenna on a spring to prevent it pulling out of the side of the truck.
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