Antenna Boot
Laughing Gas
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When I initially saw that there were 5 pages about an antenna issue boot my first reaction was WTH??
Now that I have read ALL of the posts, seeing different ideas and the directions something like this goes it reiterates why I really enjoy reading FTE!
Now that I have read ALL of the posts, seeing different ideas and the directions something like this goes it reiterates why I really enjoy reading FTE!
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I'd still like to see a photo of what this boot looks like. I have no idea whether or not my truck has it or not. In 16 years, it never occurred to me to see if my antenna had it's boot on or not, until reading this thread. I don't even know what this "boot" is.
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From: Western MA
Since it's thread resurrection week, I'll play along and keep you from having to go check your truck. I did it with jammie bottoms on and a glass of wine in hand. What's your excuse? LOL...
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Thanks Karl. It wasn't that I was too lazy to look at my truck. It was that my truck did not have anything "rubber" on the antenna, so I wanted to know if something has been missing all these years that I wasn't aware of.
Turns out, the design of the older antenna's is different. Mine has a boot alright, but it isn't rubber. Instead, it is plastic, and instead of being only an inch high as your photo (thanks again!) shows, the plastic boot is over a foot high up the mast.
Turns out, the design of the older antenna's is different. Mine has a boot alright, but it isn't rubber. Instead, it is plastic, and instead of being only an inch high as your photo (thanks again!) shows, the plastic boot is over a foot high up the mast.
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I just just teasing you! LOL. Both my 09 and my 12 were not tucked under the plastic like they should be. The antenna and boot get shipped inside the truck just like the wheel center caps. Both dealers I bought from put mine on wrong.
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Since this thread has gotten way too much play I will just add:
"squawkin" ?!?
little different than when I heard Nancy sing it.
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This is a very oblique reference to the late 1960's, when not only the tune was introduced (1966), but also when the US finally got over the WW2 mindset of Japan being the "enemy", and started importing lower cost TRANSISTORS... the heart of radios. The dramatic reduction in imported radio component costs, along with the vast improvement of "jap crap" quality during that decade, brought transistorized products in the range of affordability to common folks. This, coinciding with the FCC's post war decision to open up of a certain band of radio wave frequencies to citizens, gave rise to the immensely popular "Citizen's Band Radio" movement, (as big and new then as the internet was in the late 90's and turn of this century). Hence, these boots were made for "squawking".
Laughing Gas
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This is a very oblique reference to the late 1960's, when not only the tune was introduced (1966), but also when the US finally got over the WW2 mindset of Japan being the "enemy", and started importing lower cost TRANSISTORS... the heart of radios. The dramatic reduction in imported radio component costs, along with the vast improvement of "jap crap" quality during that decade, brought transistorized products in the range of affordability to common folks. This, coinciding with the FCC's post war decision to open up of a certain band of radio wave frequencies to citizens, gave rise to the immensely popular "Citizen's Band Radio" movement, (as big and new then as the internet was in the late 90's and turn of this century). Hence, these boots were made for "squawking".
Very good and I understand. I just wonder how many others, of other than older generations, do get it.
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It just feels weird being in that "older" generation class now. It kind of sneaks up on ya. Suddenly, the cultural idioms that permeated your formative years are utterly meaningless to the vital cambium layer of society.
