i bought a CB today after 3 years of using hand signals

Jerry Breedlove may have passed, but the Breedlove Machine Shop site for amateur radio mounts was still up a few days ago.

Nice as those QDs appear, BMS has what anyone would want.

Point is that quality pieces are available.

 

Gonna hear a diff on the fg ant over the 10k..Love the 10k just not on a low mounting position of a plastic trk.

 

Well based on your comment here ,why are you in this thread then?

 

Why don't they notch the end to accommodate the teeth in the 259 connectors? Nobody really cares anymore...

 

Probably because it would cost extra money to do so.

 

Lol, yeah. But how effective is it when there are only two teeth making the connection. You know they will start to flatten out, especially in a mobile setup, and the next thing you know there is a loose connection. All your gear is on the line and for something that should be "high quality"? I could by the crap junk from the truck stop and still be sitting in the same place.

/rant

 

I take a Dremel tool and grind the teeth off just so I get a better connection

 

Yeah i have filed down the teeth for a complete connection to..

 

Because someone claimed there are no antennas on the Cascadia. That is false.

 

Those factory antennas on plastic/fiberglass trucks of today. The grounding has no metal to ground properly to. Though they are mounted higher than a metal mirror mount. The cheap antennas they put on the trucks are not very good.