My new, final resting place

This has been a good hometime trip, for one reason: my collection of the nine Jesse Stone movies is complete.

The last installment, Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise, arrived Saturday, as did the newly released 2-disc Jeff Beal movie soundtrack. I can now listen to that dark, foreboding music all day, every day in my truck.

I don't go to movies often or watch television much, but I am a huge fan of three productions: the Jason Bourne movies, the Jesse Stone movies, and the Longmire series on Netflix.

 

Well, I have spent several hours on the truck and just returned. I think the "tricky" part is not as much with the radio as with the way the previous driver installed the new antenna cable I found. Here are the details:

** There are two antennae on the truck.
** The driver side outside antenna connection appears to have been the one he worked on because a heavy plastic protective cover is missing.
** I removed the mounting hardware and found a black antenna cable coming out of the truck side. This is good; there are two cables inside the radio storage area, one of which is black.
** I did not remove the passenger-side mounting hardware because of the intact heavy plastic protective cover.
** Inside the truck, the black cable appears to be a standard manufacturer-issued cable. It splits into two cables at the radio connection; one goes to the driver side and one to the passenger side.
** The gold-colored cable is wrapped up and appears also to go to the driver side.
** The problem began when I reached as far back into the opening as my arm would go to see what I could feel on the driver side.
** I felt the end of a cable. When I pulled it out, it was black. Apparently, the cable is not connected to the antenna on the driver side.
** Problem #2 is that it feels like the gold cable is attached to that something on the driver side, but I cannot tell what. Perhaps there is a congnection of some kind between the gold cable and the black cable that comes out of the truck to the antenna. I cannot feel that far in and cannot see anything because of obstructions and such.

After all that work being done in high humidity heat, my frustration level was high, so I bailed on the project. At this point, I'm not sure just what to do...I have to decide if taking this to a shop is worth the aggravation and expense; I have been without a CB since I got this truck a couple of months ago and maybe I don't need one that bad. I do have a handheld radio in case I need to contact a shipper/receiver, but most of them are using phones now, anyway, since fewer and fewer drivers have a radio installed.

 

I drive a 2015 Pete and I just wish the previous guy hadn't completely goofed it up. I get a 'Failed' signal out of both antennae so I really have no idea what's going on inside the invisible areas...and there's no place to attach my own high quality, tuneable Firestick.

Oh, well. I go back out tomorrow, so I shall spend some time mulling.

Mulling is good.

 

Getting a heavy load of frozen pizza that needs to be in Orlando at 0200 Wednesday. 1,400 miles and 23 hours of driving.

No rest for the wicked. And not weekend travel.