Radio Shack dual antenna set?

a friend of mine has a single on his 4wheeler and its no good.

 

Everyone likes to poke fun at Radio Shack. But the first business they were in was Antennas, television antennas.

Radio Shack co-phase harness and antennas will work and will have decent instructions attached. They also rend to stand behind there own products better than average.

The real question is if you need to co-phase or not depends on what your putting antennas on. A refer or dry van yes 2 antennas are beneficial, a tanker, flatbed, or car then 1 will out perform a dual.

 

That's true...Radio Shack "WAS" the King when it came to Antenna's, and CB Radios..."Back in the 70's!"

Go into a Radio Shack now days, and you'll be lucky to find anything CB Related...Radio Shack has just about totally got out of the CB market...

Times Change...And so did the "Shack"...If it were me, I would come more buying a antenna from a Truck Stop before buying anything from the Shack...There's still plenty of CB Shops in most of the larger city's that could recommend a good quality co-phase set-up for probably around the same price as what you seen at the Shack.

Want a CB set-up? Go to where that is their primary business...

Want a Cell Phone? Go to Radio Shack!

 

I bouht 3 boxes of coax when the shack closed here 250 foot on each RG-58, RG-8X and RG-8 .... The sheilding was so bad you could look through it at the white insuliator and its losses were way higher than TIMES or BELDEN.

Last time i was in the remaining Seminole one I had my VX-2 HT in my pocket the girl behind the counter heard the repeater and asked me what it was .... I told her it was a HAM radio ......

She asked me how much it cost per month .....

The other SHACK is in LARGO and the guy there did not know what HAM radio was ..... Sadly he was just as well informed about CB ..... since they had one in the store he AT LEAST had seen one

Yep if you have questions they have answers wrong ones .......

 

I drive a 2007 FL Columbia daycab, and found a new Radio Shack set of dual antennaes on Ebay for $31 + free shipping. They were new in the sealed package, and included the co phase coax, and 2 mounts. I used the factory mirror mounts and ran the coax through the door openings with wire ties on the outside upper mirror arms. I run a peaked and tuned Cobra 29 LTD (Chinese) nightwatch up in the "radio compartment" of the truck. It works satisfactory and my SWR is less than .5. Those antennaes are tuned almost perfectly for a 29. I use a M84 Cobra mic. Its not a big radio by any means, but its legal, and gets out about 2-3 miles depending on conditions. I've got $31 in the antennaes, $40 in the radio, total, and $26 in the mic. Not a bad budget rig for under $100. I pull double vans, so thats why I went to dual sticks. They work a little better than the single Francis I was using.

 

SWR under .5? That's a neat trick.

 

Must be a JOGUNN meter .....