579 Peterbilt CB Installation

Yeap..More than a cpl inches over trl and all your fonna hear is TING/BANG or smack when you hit over passes..Yrs and yrs ago i did same with a pair of wilson 2000...Commin up through maine i kept hearing a ting ting sound..Stoped and looked but didnt see anything untill i looked up.....Both whips on my wilson we coiled up like pigs tail..
I had then on the upper flairing supports near the top of the cab..It worked really well,got an easy 15 mi goin through utah..No miles goin through maine lol..

 

I wonder which is best:

---putting the antenna between tractor and trailer with most of it blocked front-and-back and just a few inches looking over the top, or

---putting the antenna on the mirror arm with much more of it exposed to front-and-back?

Both are limited to the 13.5 foot maximum.

 

Mirror arm all day long!!..Your limited to 13'6" yes but you have more signal capture and just because of height restriction doesnt mean your stuck with a 5ft ant..When the wind hits it im about trl height..

 

A reg expert aa30 is around 200 the higher you go the more $..
There is no real advantage in co phase other than a bit more rec from passenger side..Your trans pattern changes some so you dont get as far in front and back as with 1 ant..But two gets better 360 deg rec just not the same distence as 1...How much i couldnt say..10-20% maybe...
Also take in affect that the right side takes more abuse from trees n such.

 

Get creative..Make one...I have an idea for the new cascadia,just gotta stop in to a maxhine shop and have it made..Basically im haveing a piece of ss shaped as the door mount for the mirror..Add a lip at the foward tip and weld a shaft for the ant stud/bracket to mount to....It will bolt up between door and mirror itself useing exsisting bolts..A metal sandwhich if you will..

 

Simple..Do the same im doin..Make a bracket exactly the same as how mirror bolts to door..Just have a layer of rubber between to keep the elements out..