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Ordered a 108 for my cb

Nessmuk

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Big ass ol one piece whip antenna to reach out there a bit more. My question is do I need an especially heavy mount for it, or can I use the simple aluminum angle bracket I have?
Also, should I bend it and secure the tip or let it fly?
I lost the top half of my tuneable antenna on the first trip. Going to screw a supposed firestik on for now. I say supposed because the last one broke off day one and was crumbly inside. Must be a knock off. I'll put some fuel hose around this ones bottom.
I considered sticking a coat hanger (metal, not plastic) in my current antenna and seeing how that worked with a little tuning.
 
I like them big whip antennas. I had run one for years, years ago.
Do not mount it very high on the truck. I had one mounted to the top of the box, right behind the cab of My 67 GMC. It worked very well.
I was working for a candy/tobacco wholesaler back in those days, driving an Olson curbMaster step van{think bread truck}. I mounted the antenna to the top of the mirror mount bracket, upon the first trip out, I had to cross one of those old steel tressel bridges, doing about 75mph, all of a sudden a big KERWHAM ! ! ! !, what the heck, I then realized the top of the antenna had hit one of the overhead cross members and about every third one after that. LOL
After getting to My first stop, I noticed the antenna had a kink, about two foot down from the tip, and the little ball was gone. I think that little ball is still in orbit out there in space. LOL
I have several old CB radios and have been thinking about mounting one in the 2000 one ton, see if anything has changed out there in CB land. LOL
 
Pretty quiet in CB land even for Ohio. Big whips are ok but as outlined above, they're more trouble than they're worth. Just about any antenna will work fine with the standing wave tuned.

Best upgrades for any CB is a good quality mic and auxiliary speaker. All the tuning in the world won't help if your rig sounds like crap. Good coax cable and good connections (proper grounding) cannot be overlooked.
 
My cb is great. Boosted, and expanded bands. I have to avoid those bands as I'm not licensed, but I'm allowed to listen to the silence that is usually there. Amplified output, so no amp'd mic.
Funny how it almost sounds like an engine and transmission description, "boosted and expanded bands"..
I listen through my Bluetooth headphones.
My GPS, CB, and phone, which supplies music, all run into a Bluetooth transmitter with splitter cords feeding into it.
The truck is so loud, diesel, luggy bias ply's, wind noise, etc, without good headphones, you can't hear anything else.
 
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Radio Shack went bankrupt twice over and recall what put them on the map: CB radios. There isn't much out there on them and hasn't been for over a decade. Last radio (2008) we put in a hauler received more Spanish speaking stuff than anything else. Only use we had for it was loading up at the gravel yard. We had the owner from the Firestick company tune our last antenna from them. http://www.firestik.com/ Call and ask them if you got a legit antenna.

Short wave radio is even deader.
 
I used to have a 108" whip mounted to a heavy triple mag mount on top of the cab of my pickup. 9 feet of whip plus 6 feet to the top of the truck made for loud noises from low hanging branches and a sundry of other things. Replaced with a Predator single coil as it can be purchased with different shaft lengths. Sends and receives great. Have a Wilson 1000 on the daily driver and a Firestick on the second car.

Have a cb in all my vehicles but it ain't like it was 30+ years ago, back in the day, when it was downright fun having one. Particularly on a long trip. Helpful truckers and fellow travelers to make the time pass. Very little chatter, now, but an occasional break with traffic info and such. Seems, nowadays, that most everyone tries to talk skip with so much power that the even locals have a tough time talking over it unless you are running some extra yourself.
 
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