2010 Freightliner Cascadia antenna solutions

Check this antenna out:
http://www.worldwidedx.com/members/...ure3022-t-660-antenna-jerry.jpg:biggrin_2554:

 

ok but what about information on where to get it????

 

Jerry Cash (330)896-3485 his machine shop is in North Canton, Ohio

 

I wanted to make a correction to what I posted earlier. He makes a flat stainless bracket with 2 holes in it to attach to the mirror bracket for $16.00, and he just hired a tig welder guy to weld round rods to the flat bracket, and he charges 20 bucks for the one made out of 3/16 stainless steel with the stainless rod welded to the plate. Walcott charges $44.95 for their cheap aluminum one here: http://www.walcottcb.com/cas1-freightliner-cascadia-antenna-mount-p-2062.html

 

Here is my solution for now for 2011 Cascadia. Going to try a different antenna at some point. For now using Firestick tuneable, and using a mirror antenna mount bolted to stock mount, ran my own coax around the cab & to radio. Works OK, 1.25 SWR, range 2+ miles.

Steve

 

www.FrancisAntennaOnline.com/cb_antenna_mounts.html
.The cb antenna ground plane kit for trucks looks like an interesting solution.
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Apparently the new trucks have AM/FM and CB signals running on the same coax cable. A splitter or mutiplexer is used to separate the signals to their appropriate devices. Sounds good but ain't working for spit. You can avoid the problems this technique creates by using a separate coax cable just for the cb radio.
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Ain't technology just great.

 

Is it difficult to run the new coax without tearing everything up? I have never tried anything like this and it is a company truck?

Thanks!

 

I've got something similar in mind. I have the walcott type mount I had made out of stainless (walcott's mount ain't flimsy by the way, just expensive). Just picked up a a 22" shaft for a Wilson 2000. The problem with the Cascadia is first a lack of good ground and sorry coax with too may junctions boxes between the antenna and the radio. The mirror mount and some good bonding will solve a lot of the problems. So far every antenna I've tried on the Walcott mirror mount has a high SWR unless tilted forward to get it away from the mirror and the "A" pillar. I slip seat so bonding is out of the question although I have something in mind I'm going to try. The tilt, or lean, I have to put in the antenna to achieve a good SWR is too much to have a good signal, I'm using a 5x5 Francis as of now. I'm hoping the long shaft Wilson will get the antenna away from the mirror and frame enough, with only a minimal lean in it, to achieve a good functioning antenna system. If I figure this out, I'll post it.

Oh by the way, our shop has found the coax not plugged in good at some of the junction boxes. Might be some of you guys problems as well. Also a couple of the guys put new connectors on the end of the coax that connects to the radio and got better performance also. Our trucks are set up as CB antenna on the left/driver side, FM/AM etc on the left.

 

For some reason I couldn't edit this post?????? Had to change the last word from left to right.

 

That's kind of what I did on this '10, but I went as far as removing the stock antenna and removing the plastic cover over the stock antenna mount. Then I drilled a hole on the bottom of the mount for my own coax to come out and be ran into the cab through the door. Stuck a KB40 whip antenna on that mount and when I went to tune it, the meter was jumping around like crazy when I keyed up but running a ground wire from the mount, along the coax to a screw on the a-pillar fixed that. My SWR's are like 1.5 on channel 1 and 1.8 or so on 40. It's not perfect but I'm probly getting about 3 to 4 miles out of it which is plenty for me.

I probly still need to do some more fine-tuning to the antenna but I think what I really need is to have my radio peaked and tuned.