Hell's bells, somebody (Volvo) can do it right. (Radio mounting content)

Nice set up! I've got one of those old Radio Shack meters too. It's checked a lot of truck antennas over the years.

 

You could mount it right underneath the cubby hole I had an RCI 2950 dx and done exactly that

 

Nice. That little meter isn’t very generous, it reads accurately on avg power and pep. It’s in line with my $400 meters, not bad for $30. My dad has two, one is still new in the box.

 

My new General Lee fits just fine in my KW T800 and would fit the same in a W900.

Not room for much else in there, but it’s secure and looks great.

 

Did you remove the tracks that the cb tray slides into?

 

No tracks that I saw, just a nylon strap that snugs it down against the fold-down tray before popping it back into place.

Mine is a 2016 glider, but a buddy at work runs a General Lee in a newer 2019 W900 and it looks the same as mine. Not sure if he had to modify anything or not. I’ll ask him on Monday.

 

T680 has a cb tray that slides into tracks, would have to remove whole plastic piece that tracks are on and the speaker is attached to it as well, dont know what the heck KW was thinking when they designed this setup, must work with FCC thinking they are going to force every driver to use 29 or smaller size radios.

 

Dat beez da ‘firmative action engineer. Can’t give him anything might be dangerous.

This is Job 2

Job 1 was the GLARING blue dash light that indicates high beams engaged. Electrical tape ain’t enough.

You ain’t lived till that tray comes flying open to launch the radio at your head. You go’ be screamin’ WAKANDA as the truck rolls over the guardrail

 

Moved into a brand new T680 on Wednesday so same old BS cb tray, actually stock antennas are not that bad, swr is 1.7, would like to change them out for my 4.5' Francis, but the factory must of used the Rock to tighten them because I cant budge them lose at all, going to have to wait until I get to shop and remove whole thing ( antenna and stud) and use vice, dont know if improvement is that significant but it lowers swr and adds a foot in height.