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RE: my local ham radio community! - Rampy - 01-12-2025
Sidebar……anyone know where I could get suction cups about the size of a quarter with the ability to route cable thru them?
To mount the starlink mini I’ve got a sweet suction cups mount, but don’t want the cable bouncing around on the paint, thinking some kind of small suction cup would support the cable and protect the paint
RE: my local ham radio community! - tommag - 01-12-2025
(01-12-2025, 06:57 PM)Rampy Wrote: Sidebar……anyone know where I could get suction cups about the size of a quarter with the ability to route cable thru them?I don't know, but I'd start with Amazon.
To mount the starlink mini I’ve got a sweet suction cups mount, but don’t want the cable bouncing around on the paint, thinking some kind of small suction cup would support the cable and protect the paint
RE: my local ham radio community! - Rampy - 01-12-2025
(01-12-2025, 07:07 PM)tommag Wrote:(01-12-2025, 06:57 PM)Rampy Wrote: Sidebar……anyone know where I could get suction cups about the size of a quarter with the ability to route cable thru them?I don't know, but I'd start with Amazon.
To mount the starlink mini I’ve got a sweet suction cups mount, but don’t want the cable bouncing around on the paint, thinking some kind of small suction cup would support the cable and protect the paint
My word choices suck, keep finding suction cups with plastic or metal hooks. & some with screws, just got frustrated
will try again later
RE: my local ham radio community! - Towtruck - 01-12-2025
(01-12-2025, 03:23 AM)The Shooters Apprentice Wrote:The new Kw's have very low mirror brackets and mirrors. They mount the factory antennas on those mounts and most of the antenna is below the top of the cab. I also do not like dual antennas as they do not work as well to the sides of the truck and in the woods we need to hear and transmit 360* not in front and back.(01-11-2025, 08:53 PM)Towtruck Wrote: I’ll never get into ham but I have been getting back into CB’s lately since I started driving part time. The trucks have radios that suck. The radio broke in my truck so I put my own portable unit in.
We have a few drivers in the area that have very nicely tuned radios. Loud and clear and when on the logging roads you need a good radio. I built a mount that I can swap between trucks and tuned the swr to where the needle barely moves. As good as it gets. I am now wanting a bit more.
I just bought a used meter on eBay so I can tune my old radio. I want to get the modulation up to 100% and possibly take the power up a tad. I don’t want a linear or anything illegal. I just want to maximize the Cobra 29 classic without adding anything to it. If I can get a super clear sound out of it and a few miles of extra range I will be happy.
I’m pretty ignorant to radios and tuning but I have been reading, and sorting through the crap, about how to peak and tune the radio. There really isn’t one good source I have found online to show me how to do it all at once. When my meter arrives I’ll bring the radio home and set it up and check everything against the meter and then adjust one issue at a time until I get it 100%.
these new trucks don’t ground worth a crap either. I grounded out my antennas and peaked/tuned a classic 29 in the blue freightshaker I was driving and I more that doubled my CB range, probably close to tripled it.
the western star I have no has crap radio output so I’ll need to work on it soon too if I stay in it.
My portable mount is clamped onto the headache rack that is bolted to the frame. I don't really have a flat spot like a roof to mount it but it is metal to frame. Currently I am using a magnetic mount Lil Will antenna onto my clamp. I can then mount it very high with the base of the LiL Will above the cab and the tip just under 14' high. That was one reason to pick that antenna. I may change out the magnetic base antenna for a bolt on later but I need flexibility on where to mount on different trucks. On my clamp I made two surfaces to stick the magnet on, one 90* from the other so I can clamp onto a horizontal or vertical bar.
The radio currently works well enough but I want a tad more. I will tune it and test it before putting it back in a truck. I did manage to swap a radio out of our transport fire truck that pulls the dozer. The operator of that truck during fire season does not use a CB. That radio is working well in my truck as I installed and set it up the best I could get it tuned. I will not be putting my tuner on company radios unless asked to.....I'm not going to be blamed for burned up radios.
I will be bringing my radio home soon and will play with tuning it now that I have researched it a bunch. I did find a good source for what not to do and believe I know enough now to set it up for max legal carrier watts and 100% modulation. I want that radio that puts out crisp clear audio like I'm right next to you talking....I know it can be done as a guy has a radio I hear all the time that sounds perfect.
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RE: my local ham radio community! - Rampy - 01-12-2025
Wife found some, in the clearance rack in Target, they are marketed as Christmas lights suction cups 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
RE: my local ham radio community! - Towtruck - 01-12-2025
(01-12-2025, 06:57 PM)Rampy Wrote: Sidebar……anyone know where I could get suction cups about the size of a quarter with the ability to route cable thru them?Do they make those Command strips for hanging stuff on walls with and way to attach a cable?????
To mount the starlink mini I’ve got a sweet suction cups mount, but don’t want the cable bouncing around on the paint, thinking some kind of small suction cup would support the cable and protect the paint
RE: my local ham radio community! - srjdsmith - 01-12-2025
(01-12-2025, 11:07 PM)Rampy Wrote: Wife found some, in the clearance rack in Target, they are marketed as Christmas lights suction cups 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Hah. She beat me to it.
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