CB install, anyone have it yet?

SkippyG4 · February 6, 2016

It's a midland 75-822 modified. Little bigger than just a mic but definitely tolerable. It's 3 foot firestick II tuneable antenna.

FL335i · February 20, 2016

Skippy4- how about that wind report update?

cjb321 · February 20, 2016

Skippy4- how about that wind report update?

i've used many of those fiberglass antennas before and never heard any wind noise except when i had them mounted on the mirrors on a 66 chevy pickup.

SkippyG4 · February 21, 2016

Skippy4- how about that wind report update?

No Wind whatsoever. very glad i put the antenna on the spring. pulled nose into garage to work on front end and forgot about the antenna. luckily spring was there.

slj2008 · February 21, 2016

No Wind whatsoever. very glad i put the antenna on the spring. pulled nose into garage to work on front end and forgot about the antenna. luckily spring was there.

quick disconnect for antenna ????

Beer Belly · February 22, 2016

No Wind whatsoever. very glad i put the antenna on the spring. pulled nose into garage to work on front end and forgot about the antenna. luckily spring was there.

I'd be worried of it springing back and whacking the cab and chipping the paint

SkippyG4 · February 22, 2016

I'd be worried of it springing back and whacking the cab and chipping the paint

spring barely moves for the most part. unless you pull into a garage and literally pull on the antenna. an inch sway even at 90.

quick disconnect for antenna ????

open ended wrench for quick disconnect.

slj2008 · February 22, 2016

spring barely moves for the most part. unless you pull into a garage and literally pull on the antenna. an inch sway even at 90.

open ended wrench for quick disconnect.

YES Sir - that will also work. BUT most people don't carry tools anymore ? I still have a basic set in the truck .

Beer Belly · February 22, 2016

YES Sir - that will also work. BUT most people don't carry tools anymore ? I still have a basic set in the truck .

Thieves will (lol)...

FL335i · February 28, 2016

^nobody is running around stealing CB antennas.... Most people now a days don't even know WTH these things are.

slj2008 · February 28, 2016

yes I have quick disconnect on my antenna , mainly when I go to a parking ramp . NO street parking. I used them since the late sixties , no problem with them being taken.

Ravenkeeper · March 2, 2016

Installed.

Glad your stake mount worked with having a tonneau cover on the bed. I was toying with that idea for a while, since it worked for you, I'm ordering one and going to put my antenna on my truck that way.

good clean installed . is that a 4 ft. antenna ? how about a quick disconnect - garage / parking ramps ?

I'd be worried of it springing back and whacking the cab and chipping the paint

I thought about a QD for my antenna, but I've had things taken out of my fenced in backyard, both big and small. With where I live, I batten everything down. When my stake-mount comes in for my antenna, I'll be buying a pair of open-ended wrenches for when I have to park it in a parking garage, IE Universal Studios, Disneyland, etc. Even with the spring, it still tore up my last/current firestik.

First time I took my last truck to Universal, I was smacking every single concrete rafter, so I stopped, pulled out of the way, only had a 1/2"x9/16" combo-open-end wrench, grabbed a quarter out of my pocket and used the 1/2" end to remove my antenna from my mount. After we left the park, we stopped at Denny's along the way, and I threw my antenna back up. 40 miles was too long to be without my CB.

Drove through plenty of drive-thru places, whacked my antenna on their "overhead clearance" signs/crossbars, and with the spring, never whacked the cab on my previous truck. The spring is pretty rigid for a spring. Going down the highway, my antenna would wag left/right at about 1" aft. I've seen a few older trucks rigged up for prerunner/long-travel/off-roaders with a steel 102" whip in the forward stake hole, and even after "trimming their neighbor's trees, that whip never hit their cabs.

Ravenkeeper · March 2, 2016

Ok. Finally months later I got some pics posted. I will take pics of the antenna today. I'm running a 3' lightweight firestik. SWR is at 2.2 according to the radio. Yes it's high. I believe I need to work on grounding the antenna better or adding a 10ga ground wire to the base in the fender. Few notes here... the Coax is running through the firewall through a spare boot would be cable. So I cut the tip off it and ran the coax through. Once everything was in place I used clear windshield silicone to seal it up well. Coax then run under the center console and comes up under the cup holder area. I drilled a hole in the console, under the cup holder area, uder the rubber pad down there for the coax to enter in a corner. Then terminated the end of the coax. When my CB is not in use, I store the coax lead under the cup holder area. you do not see anything. When in use, the coax runs through a gap between the cup holder and the console in the corner. For mounting the radio I went on Ebay and found a vendor that sells PVC/Plastic sheets. I had him custom cut. Cost me like $12 shipped to the door. It's 1/4" thick PVC sheet. 9-78" long, 3.75" Tall. I then mounted the radio's normal mounting bracket to it using some counter-sunk SST screws from HD. The PVC sheet fits into the vertical slot channels in the console. This system truly works beautifully. It takes 15 seconds to setup and take down.

I am adapting your CB location to fit my mine, only difference is mine will be paired with my scanner in the aft/deep part of the box. My cup-holder are pre-positioned in the second position for it. My iPhone/iPad sit forward of the cup-holder, so I can see them and whatever is going on with them.

slj2008 · March 2, 2016

I am adapting your CB location to fit my mine, only difference is mine will be paired with my scanner in the aft/deep part of the box. My cup-holder are pre-positioned in the second position for it. My iPhone/iPad sit forward of the cup-holder, so I can see them and whatever is going on with them.photo's

photo's of install . please

SkippyG4 · March 2, 2016

I am adapting your CB location to fit my mine, only difference is mine will be paired with my scanner in the aft/deep part of the box. My cup-holder are pre-positioned in the second position for it. My iPhone/iPad sit forward of the cup-holder, so I can see them and whatever is going on with them.

definitely pics please.