I think I got the Ol Lady pissed at me again. I was in London yesterday and I seen an excellent buy on a set of dual whips for my mirror mounts, so I bought em. I have always wanted to put a CB in my truck, never got round to it yet, and I figured the whips would make a good start. She says "That's all you need is to look like more of a hillbilly redneck, I ain't riding around in that truck with you no more!!!" I turned to her and said "That's the whole point, Dear!" LOL
I don't think she figured out what I was refering to, the first part or the second part of her statement.
So now I wanna know, how many off you 4x4 offroad hillbilly rednecks are running dual whips?
I want to be able to show her I'm not the only Hillbilly redneck around!

 

i just run one single wilson magnetic in the bed....i used to run it on the roof for optimal signal, but since it always got knocked off its just behind the cab in the bed

 

Dual sticks will get you way out farther than a single stick if they are tuned (SWR) correctly and mounted correctly.Just my own experence.
"bowties in the rearview mirror"

 

I've got two 5ft whips mounted from my toolbox. I use my cb for raisin cane in town on Saturday nights.

 

I used to have the short 3' dual mounted on top of my west coast mirrors on my 68 f250. I tilted them forward to look like bull horns. I thought that was pretty redneck.

 

I don't think you can use that phrase and call someone ELSE a hillbilly in the same sentence

Like Nod said, if you tune them, you can get out there a long way with dual whips.

 

I checked into properly hookin up true dual whips on my brother's truck once, and to get any performance you want the whips about 7-8 feet apart at the least. Otherwise the cancel each other out. Make any sense? So he has his dual antennas and only one is hooked up. Me, I like my performance too much I have a Wilson 1000 magmount on top on one truck and my mudder has a whip w/ the load about half way up to clear the cab and rollbar.

Alan

 

i got dual 5's on my tool box and only 1 hooked up... starting to get sick of my whips cause all the chevy boys in town are starting to just put them on for looks and dont even use cb's

 

from what i understand, if they are closer than like 8 ft., they dont necessarily cancel eachother but they limit your distance to transmit.

with dual whips that are too close together you can recieve transmissions from twice as far/twice as clear but you can only transmit half as far.

hope that makes sense

 

To me dual whips are a must on any truck I own. I've got black 3ft. wilsons on my '05 ranger and black 3fts on my '85 F-250. I've got Cobra CB's in both trucks. I like my 3 footers on my 2wd's, when I get a 4wd I will probably go with 4 footers.

 

I have dual Francis 5.5' antennas on one truck and a 102" stainless whip on the other. The stainless whip, at 8.5' tall, looks way more redneck in my opinion, and isn't nearly as common as dual whips.

I have my dual whips mounted in the front corners of my bed and the performance is still good. The receive is great. The transmit is great also. The pattern of the signal with dual whips will be oval, being more front and rear and less side to side. The pattern of dual whips with only one hooked up is still egg shaped, with the larger part of the pattern on the opposite side of the truck that the antenna is mounted to. The pattern is actually less on the opposite side of the "dead" antenna compared to having both antennas hot. A single antenna mounted in the center of the vehicle would give an equal transmission distance in all directions, but how many people want to drill a hole in their roof?

Here is a link to a page with some transmission patterns. The test assumes the use of the same antennas, wether single or dual. Obviously a single 102" whip would do better than dual 24" whips. Longer is usually better for cb antennas. But when given the choice of using only one of any antenna 6' or shorter or using 2 of the same antennas, I would always choose the duals, both wired hot. The pics in the link are on a semi truck; the pattern of dual antennas on a pickup truck would be more round. http://www.claysradioshop.com/Trans%...%20Pattern.htm

Ok, enough rambling...

 

Ok I have run cophase antenna's on my semi, and ran them on my ranger with the same radio just for kicks on the ranger they were 6' apart and on the semi 8' that seems like a little issue but with them 8' apart I could transmit and recieve almost double the distance, but unhook one on the ranger and it transmitted almost as far as the cophase setup on the semi. now you will notice something else running cophase, my dad and I were running down I90 in SD and he had a single K40 magnamount and I had the cophase I could talk to people several miles behind us with ease, and he couldn't even hear them but I could with ease then he started talking to a guy no more than 2 miles off the interstate that I couldn't pickup yet I could still hear the guy 5 miles behind us so it seems the increase range front/back and reduce it to the sides.
But with that bieng said I like the looks of cophase antenna's but only run a single on my F250 and leave the duals on the semi.

BTW before using them get them matched by someone that knows what they are doing it's real easy to mess up dual antenna's and you will burn out the finals in your radio in short order trust me. You have to have a single coax exactly the same length as each side of your split coax and set the SWR on each antenna seperatly then hook them up.

 

I have two 4' firestix mounted on the bed, right behind the cab. Being i have a hardtop tonneau cover, i made my own brackets using a 3" pecie of steel with two holes.

 

I run dauls off my tool box, i live by a gravel pit so we love givin those guys hell. Too many people out there runnin whips with no cb, whats the point, thats like putting a 4" body lift in and thinkin its a real lifted truck.

 

yaaaaaaay!

somebody understands

-cutts-