CB Antenna
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CB Antenna
I have an 04 F350 with the extendable tow mirrors and I was looking to mount my CB antenna on one of the horizontal mirror posts but I can't find a clip or attachment to do so. Were is everyone that has a CB mounting their antennas on the 250's and 350's? I have a topper so mounting in the box isn't what I want to do, please attach a photo if you can. Thanks
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There really is not anything "off the shelf" to install one on the trailer tow mirrors. I think this is largely due to two facts: A) you would need to run a secondary wire somewhere to get a ground, and B) questionable long term integrity of the mirror arm(s) (after all, there is a lot of force pushing on an antenna at highway speeds).
As you cannot go with a box mount, your next best option would probably be a hood/fender mount like this: http://www.firestik.com/Catalog/SS-174.
As you cannot go with a box mount, your next best option would probably be a hood/fender mount like this: http://www.firestik.com/Catalog/SS-174.
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I use a magnetic mount on the roof and it works great. This is the one. http://www.wilsonantenna.com/w500.htm
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From: Circle City
There's a mount that mounts at the door jamb along the top. Comet makes it and has a "fold over" feature. It is mainly used for 144-440 Mhz. not 27Mhz. Still a good idea and acessable. HRO sells them.
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Bigdawg, an option I used was a clean small cotton rag under the magnetic base to keep the paint intact. If you do use a magnetic base be sure to run a small(12-14 gauge) wire from the base(eylet connector around the bottom of ant) and wire tie it to the coax. Run that wire to a good clean ground. Many times if your running a larger radio or a built radio off of a magnetic base the radio can't pull a strong enough ground through the magnet and paint. Be safe and ground it anyway, you can never have enough grounds with a cb set up.
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I mounted mine on the side of my headache rack. I can get you a picture tomorrow if you want it, but if you don't have a headache rack it won't do you any good. I've seen others mounted on the bed rail near the cab if they don't have a toolbox.
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Thanks for the comments F350-6, ag30265, and wreckit72. I appreciate them all. Just can't quite bring myself to plopping a $40.00 magnetic mounted antenna on top of a $50,000 dolar truck. Perhaps you really have to have the CB to allow yourself to do it. Does anyone know how the through the glass antennas work?
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i was looking into the glass antennas and all the resreaching i have done on the net does not seem to support that idea for your cb. from what i read you will not get that good of a single or be able to reach out there that far. if you are not looking to put any holes in your 50 thousand truck and you dont feel safe using a magnetic antenna mount then i guess your only opption is the glass mount but it wont be close to the same as the other antennas. maybe you can fab something that would fit in one of the rall holes on top of your bed and mount the antenna on the fab pices so you wont have to make any holes in your truck. i was thinking of them big black boxs with the i on top for tieing down stuff in the bed, that you place in the bed rail holes.
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If you have a cap on your truck and don't want to mount anything to your truck you could use one of these mounted to the cap. http://www.wilsonantenna.com/ngk.htm
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Originally Posted by APG
I have an 04 F350 with the extendable tow mirrors and I was looking to mount my CB antenna on one of the horizontal mirror posts but I can't find a clip or attachment to do so. Were is everyone that has a CB mounting their antennas on the 250's and 350's? I have a topper so mounting in the box isn't what I want to do, please attach a photo if you can. Thanks
Last edited by poppie; Aug 13, 2007 at 08:39 PM.