sparkyscbshack are they good?

I'm not sure if they do installs or not.Give them a call.

 

Man, I'm going right past there too. Too bad I'm in the wrong truck. Ah well, at least they're easy to get to.

 

9' is fine. I hooked mine up with that grey coax they have in most truck stops, a new mount since the stock ones on 9400's are garbage, and a 4' wilson fiberglass. I just fiddled with it until the built in swr meter was low enough that it wouldn't fry itself and ran with it for now.

If you look at the pic of my truck, the antenna on the passenger side is crooked. That's because the bracket is snapped clean off and the antenna is held on with zip ties. I had it hooked to that one for a while before I found the right mount. Worked pretty much ok.

First time I hooked it up in this truck, the old cb it had in it died and I needed it to talk to the security shack up the street to get in the gate. I rigged it up and held the antenna in my hand out the window. Also worked fine, though I wouldn't recommend that while trying to drive.

 

Sorry to say, you did it *ss-backwards. Should have spent the coin on the proper antenna setup first, then purchased the radio you could afford. I see this happen all the time and then the operator wonders why his $500 setup sounds like #####. Since it's too late, I'd wait until you can afford a new antenna setup to put in that mobile.

 

Ordered a General Lee from sparks sunday got it today, wanted to get nitro knobs on it but he said that would be a custom radio then and there were 120 ahead of me, so I think I just put some jeweled knobs and crome covers on it. Great service very happy

 

You will be very pleased with the Cobra 29 with RFX 75. I use a Wilson 1000 and get on a good 10 miles or so with it on the highway.

What antenna did you end up going with ??? As others have stated, good quality coax and a good quality properly tuned antenna will make or break the performance of your radio.