Cascadia cb question.

Cobra 29, Uniden 78, or a Galaxy 979 I think is a compact SSB. Smaller radios won't fit quite as well as these. There is an integrated bracket in the newer ones to fasten the radio in with the thumb screws, as well. t's attached to the faceplate, need the right size Torx to remove and replace.

 

There is an option of a factory installed on the dash mount, the trucks my company ordered have them, the trucks we lease now have the cubby in the headliner, and there isn't a lot of room to spare in the cubby. The pad on the dash also has 12 volt power with binding posts.

The Cascadia factory faceplate fits a larger but still normal sized CB, but a 148 Cobra won't fit well even without the cover, the export radios are even a bit bigger than that, I think, although I did help a driver hook up a mic in the headliner of an old FLD, the side mounted microphone jacks made it harder to place a CB in a confined area. The larger cases won't quite fit.

 

I ran coax through the firewall in the midst of the hoses and cables, in front of the instrument cluster there is a hole you can push a piece of coax without a PL-259 through, and routed it over to the A-pillar(the cover snaps off and back on) up to the headliner and over to the cubby, it took a few hours to figure everything out, but once I knew the coax could go that way, it was worth it.

I'm using a Q-5 mount with a heavy bracket attached, and a 7 foot Firestick tipped a little forward, it comes up about as high as 4 footers did on top of the mirrors on a Columbia.

Looks good, nothing in the weatherstripping, and you can't see I added anything except the mount and antenna and a little coax threaded out from under the hood to the mount.

I should have tipped the antenna a little more, the wind pushes it back, but the airflow keeps it from hitting the cab. Works good, gets out and hears.

Radio is a stock Cobra 29 Chrome. Mic I'm using now is an Astatic.