cb setup for my tacoma!!!

Do you have an SWR meter Will? Do any of the guys have 1? If not RS sells them cheap. DAMM all these SWR needs out there and I have a Midland SWR/field strength ham qualty meter from '79 that I paid $200.00 for in '79....sittin in the garage doin nothing!

 

that would be a negative uncle frank!! i dont even know what a swr meter is.

 

Ha then youre good to go Hodge-but when that equipment goes into Will's truck, there will be a need to retune it to match the groundplane of his truck body-maybe. Or we may luck out and it will be in the tolerance

 

how much is that other setup gonna cost hodgey??

 

good deal man!!

 

Will, SWR is "standing wave ratio"-basically, a CB antenna is cut to a length within a tolerance for the 27MHZ band of frequencies. Within that antenna is a movable small whip to 'fine tune' that antenna down to optimal SWR match of the coax feedline to transmitter. Thats where the meter comes in (basically SWR is the wave coming from the radio with relation to the antenna's height off the ground, position on the truck <groundplane>) If the SWR is too high-it feeds back into the transmitter and can fry the final coils! But since the CB antennas are a certain length, most guys can get away with just installing and operating without a proper match-but are doing so at a substantial loss of transmit power.
I think you, Will, deserve to have the setup that really TALKS!!!!

 

awesome...good to know!! eyah, when i do the setup, im gonna do it right, but hopefully i wont have to go into it moneywise really deep......boobs mcgee wont find that the least bit amusing.

 

Dare I ask??? Who is Boo.... nevermind-

 

not sure what the inside of your cab looks like but heres how I did mine:

 

hellz yeah man!!!! that'll work for me!!

 

nice setup man!!

 

thankx, if your guys radio bezel area is the same, it works well, but from my understanding, its pretty much only this radio (cobra 18wxII) that works do to the size, and the front firing speaker, even though I added an extra (louder) one.

 

if it comes down to it, for room purposes, i may mount mine in the bottom center console, but i really havent looked at any mounting places yet, so im still unsure of that detail.

 

that sounds like a killer setup Jamie!!

 

That's where I plan on mounting mine whenever I get around to it (classes are kicking my ass right now.) I think due to the size of the one you plan on getting it would look best there.

 

does yours have an eyeglasses holder up above the rearview mirror ? Ive thought about moving the CB up there, due to wanting to get a double DIN stereo/nav unit. just a thought