cascadia antenna solution??

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by soon2betrucking, Mar 9, 2010.

  1. Road_Hammer

    Road_Hammer Light Load Member

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    lemme ask you this how did you run the coax to get it in the cab and wheres your cb mounted? I have a Pete 387 with the same problem it's fully plastic
     
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  3. soon2betrucking

    soon2betrucking Road Train Member

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    if you look in the first 2 pictures, you can kinda see how the coax runs down the grab bar, then i had to drill a hole into the bottom of the side box on the driver side, into the side box, and then followed the trim along the inside, under the trim at the driver side door, up the piller then behind the plastics to where the cb is mounted... its mounted above the windshield...
    i got 30 ft of coax cable from the cb shop in ohio off x99 on 75...

    the one and only time i have ever seen this mount was on that exact pete...
     
  4. Road_Hammer

    Road_Hammer Light Load Member

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    ok yea i was kinda studying that the other day while parked at he truck stop and thats exactly where i'm gonna run mine 30ft will be pefect i wanna stop by that cb shop the next time i get down into Ohio apparently he's preety good in there
     
  5. soon2betrucking

    soon2betrucking Road Train Member

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    i dont knwo if he has that mount or not... when i was there he didnt not have any, but he was aware of the mount.... i got my mount from the cb shop in Knoxville on 40 at the petro... 60 bucks for the mount...
    as i said in the other post, im very happy with it soo far..
     
  6. ChromeDome

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    That mount was designed origionally by wolcott for the T-2000, but it works on any of the newer fiberglass trucks.
    There is no steel in any of them for a good reflector plane, so the most you can expect without making an artifical gound plain is about that same 5-6 miles.
     
  7. soon2betrucking

    soon2betrucking Road Train Member

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    trutfuly thats all that i want/need, only about 5-6 miles. i really dont need to listen to the guy thats 12 miles away talking about whatever in the world he is talking about.... 5-6 works just well for me... enough to alert me of whats near by...
    yes, the guy at the cb shop said that mount has beena around way longer then the cascadia has been around..
     
  8. haze1

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    I too drive a Cascadia and I mounted my Wilson 2000 with the short stem directly on the factory mounts, one on each side and I have a barefoot Galaxy DX 929 which easliy gets out 5-7 miles and on a real good day I have talked 10-12 miles. I do like your set up and just might give it a try to see if i get better results. Thanks for the pictures with your post
     
  9. soon2betrucking

    soon2betrucking Road Train Member

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    no problem...
    when i get back to my truck ill take a pic on how i have the coax ran to the inside of the truck..
    like i said. i get 5-6 out and thats all i really care for.
     
  10. WingRider

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    Here is a couple pics of my low budget solution. My only concern is if the whip is going bang on the side of cab. Also, my load lights were mounted on the inside of the fairing, so I moved them to the outside, and used 1/2 of a mirror mount to attatch it to one of the holes for the load light bracket. Will keep ya'll updated
     

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