4ft Whips WHAAAAT?!?!?!?

suzukiquadrider · Oct 26, 2011

i had a cb in my old pickup, i have yet to put it into my 2002. that is a project for later.

HemiBabe · Oct 27, 2011

CB's come in handy when you're stuck in traffic, you can radio the truckers and find out what happened, where to exit, etc. The BF had one running his radio and the other runnin his CB as well, worked great

ryanmarie · Dec 27, 2011

I got a cb

but my antenna got eaten (long story) so it's not in my truck anymore.

Badger · Dec 27, 2011

Lol way to bring this thread back. Get that cb up and running!

Stangshcky12 · Dec 27, 2011

Dual 3fts here. I live between the coal mine and the power plant so it's pretty entertaining in the morning

Badger · Dec 27, 2011

I'll bet it is. Sometimes the cb is better than the radio. I'm gonna be upgrading the whips sometime in the next month. Got my eyes on a set of 6 footers I found at the cb shop.

cwakefld · Dec 27, 2011

I am in the process of making some sort of mounting bracket for mine. Ramhunter9, I really like the way yours is mounted and am fairly sure I could fabricate something like that to mount to the middle seat frame

Badger · Dec 27, 2011

His center console is a speaker box.

Stangshcky12 · Dec 27, 2011

Badger said:
I'll bet it is. Sometimes the cb is better than the radio. I'm gonna be upgrading the whips sometime in the next month. Got my eyes on a set of 6 footers I found at the cb shop.

That's what my girlfriend says, she gets a kick out of listening to hers on the way to work.
I couldn't imagine having 6fts lol I see trucks around here with them but see the 102" whips more often lol. Way more then I need haha

cwakefld · Dec 27, 2011

I think if I had bigger than 3ft it wouldn't fit in my garage.

Okiespaniel · Dec 27, 2011

While the front bed corners are the coolest place to mount your antennas it's the worst (anti-flame suit on) spot due to the ground plane of the roof. I've never been able to tune one, much less two antennas in that spot.

So I've decided to mount a 102" whip in the back bed corner. Function over form this time.

Stangshcky12 · Dec 27, 2011

cwakefld said:
I think if I had bigger than 3ft it wouldn't fit in my garage.

With my 3ft they are about an inch or two over 7ft
I'm not really looking for the ultimate performance or I would go with the quarter wave off of a better spot.
I only have a uniden 520xl so obviously I'm not to serious about it. I get about 3 miles range out which is more then enough for me, I mostly use it for wheeling, driving in packs with friends, and trying to keep a heads up what's in front of me

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

Since were all sharin here haha i got a Cobra, not sure of the model, but i have that and a 4ft Wilson antenna mounted on my toolbox on the drivers side. I thought about doin the dual whips but im not sure that im goin to yet. Plus, my CB has a bit of a ground issue lol its grounded right to the battery, but i get all the motor noise and power locks, windows, horn etc. Just about everything interferes with it haah ill have to grab a pic of the CB tomorrow though..

iSlacker816 · Jan 2, 2012

What dictates the range of a CB? Is it the length of the whips or the CB itself?

Badger · Jan 2, 2012

It's the cb mostly but high quality antennas help. A cb is designed to have a 4 mile range but they can be nodded (illegally) for more range

iSlacker816 · Jan 2, 2012

Lol illegally? They gonna hunt me down for having a modded CB?

Badger · Jan 2, 2012

No but the fcc frowns upon it. And I wouldn't take a modded cb to a cb shop either. I think ramhunters cb is nodded tho he could probably shine more light on it.

99ram360 · Jan 4, 2012

im running a cobra 29ltd classic with dual 4 ft fiberglass antennas but i want some steel whips!!!

ktm1217 · Jan 5, 2012

Heres a pic of my CB setup inside the truck, forgot to get a pic of the antenna but theres some in my album on my profile so feel free to check that out but its just a Wilson FGT 4 footer mounted on the drivers side of the toolbox. Sorry its kinda dark lol but its there on the bottom of the dash under the stereo..

99ram360 · Jan 5, 2012

hey ktm1217 is that on your cup holders? if so is it to low when you open your cup holders because thats where i wana put mine but i dont want it to be to low when i opened it. where did you mount your mic

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