I have a F250 CC Lariat and want a cb. Wher is the best location to mount it? Also should I go with duel antennas or a single? If the duel, where to mount them as I have the foldind mirrors so no mirror mount? Also what is the best place to mount the CB?

 

Take a look at these posts:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...t-and-why.html

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...b-antenna.html

I removed the cubby bin below my upfitters, mounted a thin piece of plywood in it's place, then mounted my CB to the plywood. I plan to cover the piece of board with some color-matched acoustical carpet one day.

I bought the Geotool stake-pocket mount for my truck and have a 5' Wilson fiberglass antenna. Stake-pockets are not the best place to mount an antenna. The roof of the truck is the best place, but I already have clearance issues in some of the places I travel. I also put a Fire-fly quick-disconnect on my antenna base.

I'll try to get a couple of pics and post them this weekend.

 

Single whip, most people that run two do so for cosmetic reasons and even if you do have the second one plugged in, I really doubt that it gives you all that much extra of a boost that justifies having that second one. Also if your already running alot of electronics in your truck consider putting in another battery as CB radios are not the most efficient consumers of juice like radios, amps and all that other stuff.

 

While dual (duel means they are fighting ) antennas look cool, they only work as designed if mounted pretty far apart, like at the end of the mirrors on a semi truck. They offer some gain both in front and behind the vehicle when mounted properly. Putting them on the Super Duty mirrors doesn't work well because the output from the antennas tends to cancel each other out, sort of like opposing woofers that are not phased correctly.

Heck, maybe in this case they would be duel antennas!

 

I mounted my CB in the storage pocket of the overhead console.
took a little grinding of plastic, but it looks good up there.
Never used that pocket for anything that didn't fall out... WOT.

 

They make CBs that small or is the overhead console bigger then I think it is?

 

Motorola makes a nice small unit.
I bought it on-line

 

Boy I tell you that company has their hands into everything when it comes to communications.

 

Me and two other friends all put ours here. Mines in a 250, both theirs are in 150s(the interiors are closer to the new 08 SDs). Its a Cobra 25 (a 29 fits, but it kept hitting my knee). I used one screw right in the middle of the bracket and then velco. Hasn't fallen out yet, and since its one hole I can put a bracket in for the 29 no problem.

 

I mounted my cb in about the same place as texas tech, just farther to the right about a foot where it wouldn't hit my knees. I actually used heavy duty velcro to mount it, but its a small radio and maybe once every couple months, I find it laying on my floorboard. mehh..it does what I need it to. My antenna (4 ft. whip) is on my mirror because I have the 2 arm mirror, but the roof would be good for a magnetic mirror. Or if you have a tool box, they make brackets for mounting it there. Because my mirror is plastic, I had to run an extra wire it just to ground it. But if its connected to someting metal like the roof or toolbox there shouldn't be a problem. And yeah there's not much sense for 2 antennas unless you are using the second for someting else.

 

Heh... I used a 41-inch bungee to strap mine to the front of the center console. Out of the way but still easily reachable.

I also use a K-30 mag-mount steel whip on the roof. I think I got a dud, though, because the SWR's won't go below 3.0. I rarely transmit (listen, mostly), and even more rarely transmit long enough to heat up the finals to the damage state that a 3.0 SWR normally runs, so it's not much of an issue for me.

Duals (cophased) CAN work on a pickup, but you get none of the benefits of true cophasing, because the antennas aren't far enough apart to work right. Cophasing requires the antennas to be 1/2 wavelength apart, which on 27MHz is 108 inches. The only place you'll get that wide a mount on a moving vehicle is either on big-rig mirrors, or on a locomotive. Benefits include increased gain fore/aft, and decreased gain side-to-side. This is greatly increased by having a large metal object (i.e. a dry van trailer) behind the duals.

I would routinely get SWR's below 1.4:1 on the dual setups I used to run, but I didn't put a set on the F250 because I wasn't ready to drill NEW sheetmetal. Also, I wanted a removeable setup on this rig, and you can't move a dual install easily.

-blaine