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Gonemuddin1
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Post Number: 13
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 11:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Alright Ive got a good question for yall. I have a friend who is into this new mini-trucking stuff and has a lowered S-10. Anyways he wants a CB in there to talk to all of us, but is not reall big on any kind of antenna. We tried to use the shortest cell phone style antenna we could find (about 18'' tall) on his rear window. With this his transmit and receive range was a whole 100 feet. What he was wondering is if there was anyway to mount an antenna under his tanou cover. What he was thinking about was the cheap quick base antenna, where you strip a piece of coax and expose the center line, and squish down the braid. Would this or anything simular work under his tanou cover? Now I understand that this isnt ideal, but if itll work for a mile or two he'll be happy.
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Allagator
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Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 4:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

in side of the bed i dont think will work cause of the bed being made of metal it would reflect all his signal from leaving the bed of the truck !

but i know a guy who panted his little wil (wilson) to match his truck and he took his stereo antenna and the cb antenna and stuck them on top ! it kinda looked neat ! till he went to chop his top off the truck and cut the coax for the cb and his stereo !! LOL
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Pointman
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Post Number: 132
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 5:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There is a adapter that you can hook your radio's antenna up to your CB. SWR's are not supposed to be great but it does work. I don't know where to get one but I have read that you can still get them.
Cobra makes a little rubber antenna for it's hand held CB, very small and easy to throw up to work in a pinch.
Hope this helps you if he is still looking for ideas.
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Gregra77
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Post Number: 6
Registered: 2-2004
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 7:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anyone know how to take the talk back off a hr2510 ?
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Crackerjack
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Post Number: 423
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 7:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have used this $50.00 unit to do something similar. I talked from my driveway in S. Texas to N. Carolina USB 12W on my dx-959 and an 18' piece of coax under the canvas top of my Jeep.

Austin to Dallas, 10W Swing AM was not unusual around 6 in the morning. It kept my Jeep from break-ins, I had a quick connect 102' I connected on weekends.

The MFJ-16010 is a variable L-network random wire antenna tuner designed to match the low output impedance of your transmitter to the high impedance of a random wire (or vice versa). It will match almost any random length of wire to any transmitter from 160 thru 10 meters. The transmitter may have an output RF power up to 200 watts.

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Tech808
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Post Number: 5693
Registered: 8-2002


Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 7:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gregra77,

There are several different ways to do this.

Click on the Link below;

HR2510 Talkback Removal

Hope this helps,

Lon
Tech808
CEF808
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Crackerjack
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Post Number: 425
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 8:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Also, you can purchase a groundplane for a fiberglass roof RV at most RV Stores, Firestick makes one, They work wqith that tuner I talked about above. They are basically a coax antenna unbalanced wire antenna thta use a small whip (like a cell mobile phone) antenna as the radiator and the coax GP could run under the tanou.

These are poor antennas but they work on the hughway real well,
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Bigbob
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Post Number: 1866
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Use the random wire tuner and a gamma match from a base antenna and attach it directly to your truck bed,electrically insulate the bed from the rest of the truck,thus the bed/box is the antenna and the frame and cab are the counter-poise,this sounds wild but should work.Bigbob
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Crackerjack
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Post Number: 428
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Big bob: LOL, that would radiate straight up!
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Hotwire
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Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 8:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just use a disguise antenna. I see them at the pilot truck stop for sale all the time. Uses am fm cb all together. Should get you over the median ok.
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Crackerjack
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Post Number: 430
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Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 9:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hotwire: That might work, add the tuner/matcher and you can get the SWR way down and it might be the best way to go, if all you want is highway contact.
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Gonemuddin1
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Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 2:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for all of the input, I'll relay the info to my friend, and see what he decides.
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Hotwire
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Post Number: 335
Registered: 1-2005


Posted on Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 6:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

An old car I used to own had a disguise antenna already installed when I bought it. It was not to bad of a performer as far as using just a stock low power radio. Safe to say 2 miles of transmit and possibly 5 to 10 miles of recieve. Good for on the highway. Had a lot of fun because you can be sneaky with one of them.
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Allagator
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Posted on Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 11:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gonemuddin1 !

A friend of mine has a S10 with a bed cover on it ! so i had to see if we could find a antenna the would work for more than 5 miles !

now here is the strange thing !
103" dipole taped under his top in a kinda a BIG U shape worked for 7 miles ! but the recive was like having no antenna ! SWR 2.3

another idea was a cell antenna from walmart !!!
HE HE HE !!!
and we got a hole 1 mile out of it !!!! SWR 1.9

but when we got one of the cell antennas for CB that clips on your window we got 7 miles and all you have to do is just roll the window down and its gone ! ( just drop it behind the back seat )2.5 but with a ground wire it would drop to a 1.8 !!


hope this helps !!! Allagator


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