Bought the Uniden Bearcat 880-Antenna Question

I had the 880 and have a 980 uniden but run a Stryker 955.The 880 and 980 are decent radios. Not much you can do to them I wouldn't waste my time on a tune up the receive is really good and you can't much over 8-12 watts out of them. As for the antennas I would run new mini 8 coax only 1 though and on the left side. For a antenna I would go with a Predator 10k Bad to the Bone. They tune out flat to a 1:1 ratio are completely rebuild able with a life time warranty.

 

Predator has a double coil antenna that is supposed to tune shorter than the Bad to the Bone. You want to make sure you get the coil above the body as much possible. The one I have if I remember right tuned in at. 5'5" right around and has the 9" lower shaft.
I drive a 386 Pete with the antenna mount on the drivers side mirror bar with a heavy duty mount. I know I'm about 13' tall from top of whip to ground and have not had any problems with height. I haul tankers and roll offs and haven't had any issues in the refineries either. The antenna is very light.
For the coax I got mini 8 with the removable end cut the end off the old one at the mirror and used Gorilla tape to tape the end of the old to the new used a little silicone spray and pulled it through the mirror brackets into the over head.

 

Hey drivers just looking up some options for my cb attenna and ran across ur thread. I have had 2 unidens bc 980s 1 was mine and another with an o/o and I ran into the same problem with the stock mic at the connection. The wires inside like to break so you might want to keep a spare since it is a 6 prong but only uses 4 wires. And the truck stops dont carry 6 prong mics only 4 from what i have seen. Just my 0.02.

 

Yep, the 680, 880, and 980 come with a 6 to 4 pin pig-tail adapter, so any 4 pin cobra/galaxy wired mic will work...or you can always get the uniden bearcat wireless mic for it and not have to worry about breaking any wires!