CB Radio Mounted and Wired!

[surewhynot]

I dare you. I've shown the santa pimp and elf pics.

 

[FordF-SuperDuty]

Back in the day (hold your thoughts punks) when cell phones were mounted in my truck, they put the cell antenna on the back window. Radio Shack had a CB antenna that mounted the same way and that's what I had to balance out the cell. It wasn't a great antenna, but it was adequate.

Did you do this on your Sierra GT?

CB looks great Chris.

You sure have grown up recently.
Went 4 wheeling
Drank beer
Installed a cb


Pretty soon, you'll be eating hot pockets and watching nascar, just like the rest of us.

Ha Ha. Jim Gaffigan, I saw his special today.

 

[LEB Ben]

I dare you. I've shown the santa pimp and elf pics.

Gonna do it...check the pic thread in about 10 mins...

 

[89frankenford]

hey chris the cb radio looks really good!

 

[Skandocious]

Thanks Trav.

Update-- went to Radio Shack and picked up a 25W PA speaker (radio shack brand) for ~$25. Nabbed 24ft of 18 gauge speaker wire and a stereo minijack with exposed wire at the other end. Walked out having spent only about $35.

After looking around the truck for where to mount it, I finally decided mount inside the frame rail, mounted directly to the cross member which holds my center support bearing for the driveshaft. It'll end up facing directly towards the front of the truck, on the driver-side of the driveshaft but still inside the frame rails. I prefer this to my brother setup (mounted to the floorboard on the outside of the driver-side framerail) because I won't be kicking up as much stuff up from the tires and into the speaker.

I drilled the holes but haven't mounted it yet because I didn't have hardware and the store was closed. More pics tomorrow when it's installed.

 

[Blue Goose]

Did you do this on your Sierra GT?

This truck, Taylor...

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Looks good there Chris I have a PA for mine too but what I did was take a couple of old speakers and cut around the magnets and put a screw through a hole in the mountin plate on the speaker and into the magnets and I just stick it on the roof when I want to use it. I run dual 48 inch antennas on both the 85 and I did run em on the 76 till I fried the power wire to the CB. I would also check and see how much static ya have when ya get the antenna in with the motor runnin and goin down the road. If theres alot go get a filter from a truckstop and wire it in. I have one on the 85 and had one on the 76 and the 85 has the best signal and least static. I bought a cheapo filter to put in that one but it works great.

 

[Skandocious]

PA is mounted and working great! I get nasty feedback when the driverside window is down... Will a noise canceling mic fix that?



View from the passenger side:

Invisible when looking from the side of the truck:

Get down low to the ground and...

 

[Blue Goose]

A real redneck would have screwed that sucker to the roof!

 

[LEB Ben]

Looks good Chris...always love the not noticeable look. However, with this new found love of wheeling...what are you gonna do with it then?????? Under the truck=broke. When I mounted my PA speaker...I just threw it on the inner fender in the engine bay...might wanna give that a thought for the future.

 

[Skandocious]

Looks good Chris...always love the not noticeable look. However, with this new found love of wheeling...what are you gonna do with it then?????? Under the truck=broke. When I mounted my PA speaker...I just threw it on the inner fender in the engine bay...might wanna give that a thought for the future.

Engine bay was the first place I checked-- not a single place I could have mounted this thing. Sure there's plenty of open space, but no exposed surfaces (fender, wheel well, etc) that were big enough for mounting the speaker.

Wheeling won't be a problem. The lowest point of the speaker is still above the bottom of the frame rail-- so even if I high centered on the frame it wouldn't go anywhere. As for debris being kicked up inside-- also not a problem. This model is water proof and weather proof. My brother has his mounted OUTSIDE the frame rail (where the front tire kicks ALL sorts of crap up into it). He's driven it through rain, snow, and even taken it mudding a few times. Speaker stills works just as well as it did new.

If I do end up somehow trashing this thing-- not a problem. It was only $25.

 

[john112deere]

A real redneck would have screwed that sucker to the roof!

Or at least up high under the hood:

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Ive seen em mounted to the under side of the hood before. As for the PA just turn down the mic gain on the CB and it wont squeal no more.

 

[Skandocious]

As for the PA just turn down the mic gain on the CB and it wont squeal no more.

Yeah but then it's not loud enough! LOL! I wanna blast everyone for 2 blocks!

 

[john112deere]

You gonna drive 'cross campus and whistle at the pretty girls with it?

(Don't suppose that's a very nice thing to do with the CB Trista gave you, though, is it?)

 

[Skandocious]

You gonna drive 'cross campus and whistle at the pretty girls with it?

I think I just figured out why you're single...

 

[john112deere]

No comment.

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Well try a different mic then.

 

[john112deere]

I wonder if the feedback is because your speaker isn't totally in front of your door/window? Kinda too late to do easily...but I wonder if moving the PA forward would be a good way to fix it.

I ain't no expert, just guessing at this stuff.

 

[Skandocious]

I wonder if the feedback is because your speaker isn't totally in front of your door/window? Kinda too late to do easily...but I wonder if moving the PA forward would be a good way to fix it.

I ain't no expert, just guessing at this stuff.

That's quite possible. But I didn't really have a good place to mount it forward of the side window... I think my brother had this same problem and fixed it with a noise canceling mic-- I'll have to ask him.