Glad your are healing up Bob. I'm sure you will be glad to get it behind you. Hope the surgery helped.


Cool mods kilr.


Yall have a good rest of the week.

 

ive always wanted to mount my CB up high.. but could never figure out a way to do it without drilling through the roof... i like your idea there.. might have to look into doing it that way... course id have to have someone to communicate with.

 

My radio is Ham and CB, AM, FM, USB and LSB. I can always find someone to talk to LOL

 

i think mine needs tuned... i couldnt hear people too well from across the parking lots sometimes when i had friends into it...

 

I mounted the CB in my truck similar, except I just mounted in directly to the metal trim panel that runs there lol.

In my Merc, I have a Baofeng UV-5R with the batterly eliminator, so I clipped it's belt clip to the trim panel where the seat belt exits, and the speaker mic to the top of that same trim panel near the ceiling, and ran a dual outlet 12v power connection and velcro'd it to the lower part of that trim panel. Allows the radio to be moved around for use, tuck out of the way of the driver and a rear passenger when not, and also adds a power outlet to the backseat. It's connected to a small Nagoya magnet mount antenna on my trunk, which I plan to upgrade this year. I also plan to upgrade to a Baofeng BF-F9+ which is a handheld that pushes 8W. I like using the handhelds because it means I can take it out of the car and run it on batteries if I need to.

I previously ran a positive and negative terminal under the dash using some parts from radioshack and an 8ga wire for each box, so all I have going through the fire wall is those two 8ga wires. Makes life simple. Near future I'll be running some fog lights that will double as strobe lights, so there will be the wires for them going through the firewall as well.

 

Bearcat Pro Series 40 Channel CB Radio with Weather Alert - CB Radios at Uniden

thats the one i got... had it hooked to a 4ft whip with a helicoil near the base... but whip got placed somewhere not sure where it went when i took it off the car i had ti mounted too..

put it in a safe place.. no clue where that was... always hate when that happens...

 

that's how it goes for me too, put something away where it should be and can never find it again lol

 

yeah.. leave a room messy can always find stuff.. clean it up no clue where it went...

 

I've got this CB and a 102" whip in my 97 f150.

 

I had a General Lee before my Optima, it is a good loud radio with great receive.

I wanted to get into side band though....

 

I stepped up to this CB after my superstar 121 was stolen when I rolled my truck.

 

You ever free band on it or you stick with 11 meter (CB)?

That radio will make 40 watts tuned up. Just don't let some bozo turn the modulation way up so it's distorted.

 

I sure don't .

 

Just finished filling my taxes......

That hurt pretty bad.

 

Hello North Carolina folks...getting ready for some football? Do I smell wings...