a cb antenna on an olds?
 

i am thinking of putting this cb antenna on my olds
seen in avatar(see left)
http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/29678i0.jpg
it has a magnet to where then that way it can be moved how do you think that would look

Like a slightly off center thumbtack..

It's about functionallity right?

Careful with them Magnet antennaes. If the magnet is too strong, you misght lose/scratch your paint trying to take it off, or if it shifts. If it's too weak, you'll lose/scratch your paint when it gets blown off at high speeds and bangs against the body until you can stop and grab it.

^ that is true, be careful when putting it down. maybe you can get a thin piece of fabric or material that is slightly bigger than the magnet, to go between the magnet and the car. I used to have one on my oldsmobile cutlas ciera. I think it looks pretty good, if you put it in the center, and run the cable directly in front of the magnet into where the trunk lifts up, and then run it through the trunk to the edge of where the back seat meets the trunk, there is a litle passageway that you can squeeze it through. If you need any advice or help installing it, shoot me a PM. hope I helped you.

that is a really crappy cb antenna, should get a Wilson 1000 or a Wilson Little Will
http://www.wilsonantenna.com/lilwil.htm
http://www.wilsonantenna.com/w1000.htm

i have a Trunk Lip Mount on my bonny and it works and looks goood.

ill take some pics later and post them

I had one fall off...rated for a little under the speed I was doing..ended up sticking to the side of the car...talk about funny looking.

talk about funny and
bandit
i tryed to find a wilson 1000 in my area but i couldnt the only thing i found was that dinky one i thought it would be cool but i already have a cobra cd in the car

I've got a cobra cb too, nice system. I would like to get a wilson antenna, and I just found that there is a dealer in the town next to where i work. =D But I think it would look good on your car. Post some pitures as soon as you are done.

Antennas...

Nuttin but Wilson, man. They are hands down, the best (under 6 foot) antenna you can drop your cash on. K40's are decent, but for just a few bux more, grab a wilson. The Wilson 1000 is a great all around antenna. It can be had as a Roof Mount, Truck Mount, or Magnet Mount. The magnet... well, let's just say you can hit your speed limiter and the thing wont fall over. Really. Huge magnet.

I'd go for a trunk mount if possible. Though personally, I'm a hole driller. Ok, mind out of the gutter. Really, I drilled a hole in my Bronco about 2 months after I bought it. Never regretted it, there has always been a wilson 1000 on the roof.

I'm going to drill the roof of my 02 Jeep, also. Puttin' a Wilson 5000 on that. Little bigger coil, not really needed, but IEI didn't have any 1000's in stock when I bought it. My brother, bandit, has that wilson 1000, which was a roof mount, and I gave him my truck mount that I used on my Buick Regal. My dad has a trunk mount 1000 on his Caprice. (96, with the LT1 engine, nice.)

As far as CB's go. For off-the-shelf store radios. Go with Uniden. Better quality than cobra, and they're cheaper. Uniden used to make cobra radios, then they went their separate ways back in the 80's. Cobras quality went down, uniden brought out their own line of CB's with the same good quality. I have an uniden PC78LTW in the bronco. Got it offa ebay, already had a modulator kit with a hi/low power output switch. Great radio.

For compact CB's... The Uniden Pro510/520's are great. Though they don't have an analog meter, they make up for it in audio. Loud little radios once you peak them.

Uniden sells refurbs on their website, for a good price, and fair shipping charges. They look damn near new when u get 'em. I bought one 510 off of their site, works fine.

Just remember, no matter how good of a CB radio you buy, it's the antenna that really matters. Bigger is better. Really. Coils are no good for transmitting, but, not too many people that don't have 70's conversion vans don't want a 102" whip on their vehicle. So, coils are a necessary evil.

Wilson 500 magnet mount antennas would be my 2nd choice, and then a Liittle Wil would be third. (Don't waste yer money on a wilson 5000, really, it's not needed, unless yer getting one for a good price, or the 1000's are out of stock.)

BTW, for anyone in New Jersey, Interstate Electronics, on Route 36 in Hazlet has a good selection of CB Radio equipment. It's not a big part of their business, as the Home theatre and car audio has gotten bigger, but they still have an entire aisle, two sides, dedicated to it, as well as a display case.

Heres what mine looks like, i have a Wilson 1000


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looks puurdy bandit i like how you ran the coaxial cable

That's how the coax cable is run with all trunk mount antennas. K40 and Wilson have sturdy truck mounts, but, you do have to make sure your trunk is well grounded. What I did with my Buick, was I put a spade terminal under the set screw, then ran a 8 gauge wire from there, to a grounded part of the body. My dad took a little different approach, he grounded the trunk lid to the body, and let the antenna ground thru the lid. Either way, if it's not well grounded (and most latches aren't well grounded), you'll get all kinda fluxuation in your transmit and receive signal, and your SWR will be all over the place.

All vertical antenna's radiate the same patteren no matter what the length. As far as manufacturers go, an antenna is an antenna. Only difference might be the quality of parts used. All vertical antenna's have 0dBi of gain. Which also means 0dBi of output. 4 watts out of the radio,= 4 watts out the antenna. Beams and colinears(sp) are different.

Radio's are no different either. Other than the parts used, it makes no difference. Bells and whistles are just annoyances. Anything more than a 40 channel with WX is a waste of money. If it can transmit more than 4 watts AM. Its ILLEGAL. FCC may not be listening to you, but if you are close to a ham operator, and continue to annoy him, he may turn you in with sufficient evidence to warrant a visit from Uncle Charlie.

Rant over

I'd beg to differ on the "antenna is an antenna" part. There are lots of different designs of coils used in various antennas. Base load, center load, top load, thickness of the material that makes up the coil, plating on the coil (silver on Wilsons). Having your coil supported by a few points is better than having it wrapped around a piece of fiberglass or plastic. The less coil you have, and the more straight mast you have, the better. Keeping the coil further away from the ground plane (your vehicle) is better, too. And various vertical antennas have different a mounts of gain. Yes, even vertical antennas. They may only be 1.5dB, but, there is some gain there. (qsl.net makes references to antenna gain in some of their articles). The effective range of a taller antenna will be better than a short antenna. So, yea, spending more on well-designed and tuned antenna will pay off.

Now, radios. Yea, They're all capped at 100% modulation and 4watts by the FCC. But, you can always tweak a little more audio and wattage out of them. I wouldn't worry about trying to get that extra watt of carrier out of your CB, rather, help the audio section. Most radios can have their audio limited tuned to provide louder audio modulation. Everything in moderation, though. Cheap radios will start to clip/distort rather easily, as they're really not designed to do more than FCC specs. A Cobra 29 or Uniden PC76 will be able to modulate louder than a cheapo $30 walmart whatever brand radio before distortion sets in. Keeping the audio limiter in tact is the best idea, and just adjusting it to start cutting back the audio at a higher level is ideal. This way, you won't have that "brutha in the 'burban" sound to yer audio. (Oh man, channel 26 around Rochester, NY has a bunch of people that push out thousdands of watts of power, with audio that sounds like fuzz, and probably has more flat peaks than transitions on a silly scope.)

uh... I think that's enuf posting at work for now... :)

well i will dust off this topick for 1 comit i run a wil 1000 mag mount on my trunk and it dose ruin the paint in that spot but my lid is tweaked from the rearend
i had and now i need a new one any how but for now it is not to bad
and i dont move it ever so it will not be seen so no harm no foul ;)

besides that i also run a "turned up " 29 NW ST i got for
$50 at a pawn shop and i am pushing over 30 watts out the back with out cliping the limiter one of the best things you can do is get a difrent mike for it like a RK56 or D104M6B

i also run a base here at the house i have a full size Galaxy DX11B with a " POGO " stick antenna on the side of the house
here is a pic of my base
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any how have fun with whatever you get it is a fun hobby