My trucks first owner (I am the 2nd) was my fire chief. the antenna is still dead center on the roof, to give it its biggest "dish" so to speak. We live in a mountainous area, so it was needed. the radio itself was mounted near the right thigh/knee but in a way (hopefully this makes sense) that normal up was towards the drivers door, and normal front was up.
That spot looks pretty nice, do you have any pictures with the antenna on there?
Where did you get the steel plates? Do you have a write-up for this? I think that’s a perfect placement for an antenna.
I use it very frequently so the placement works for me. The main reason I did it is because my center dash was already in pieces. I put it back together with plastic putty and figured I might as well cut it to fit the CB on there.
Thank you! I don't have a write up but it wasn't too difficult. The steel was scrap metal I found in my garage. Where it is mounted on the bed rail, there are indents in the plastic so I cut that out and used that as a template on the scrap metal. I then drilled a hole in the center of the metal rectangle for the antenna and drilled three holes to mount it on the metal bed frame (which is beneath the plastic bed rails).
