Isn't electronics great??!! Man i love them. I have hookup for the laptop
as well, and am looking into the GPS Laptop Tracking system...GPS is USB'd
to laptop..and tracks your trip on a map. You have me thing about trying
and geting goodies back into my stock console....Hmmmmmm.... My scanner unit
might be too wide though... ill have to check on it...
As for the anenna situation... Its really quite easy. There are abunch of
ways to go about it. Once you get your location figured out....and whether
or not you want perm-a-mount of just the magentic/clamp style.. let me
know.. ill give you a run down of how mine are run.. as well as my strobe
cables...as they have to be run through the body panels as well...
-Dakota
http://www.dakota2.4mg.com
UPDATED 4/4/01!!!
8 Strobe Lights, Scanner, CB, Laptop, Light contro Box...Coming soon...
GPS!!!!
>
>I don't know how I'm going to fit everything in the stock console. But I
>have a couple months to figure it out. We're going on a cross-country trip
>this summer and I want to have all the goodies hooked up for that. I'll be
>getting a CB next month. Right now I'm leaning towards one of those units
>where everything is on the Mic and the rest of the CB is hidden away. The
>other thing I want to try and do is to merge all the audio stuff into the
>stock stereo power amp. Not sure how well that's going to work (I'm
>imagining horrible hiss from the radios), but I'm going to try it. At the
>very least I want the laptop hooked in for MP3 tunes.
>
>Other things on my list are a permanent wired in GPS, and an OBD-II
>interface, and somehow hooking those serial connections plus the scanner up
>to the laptop. I'm looking at USB <--> serial interfaces for that. That
>way the only wires my wife and I will have to deal with is USB, power and
>audio when we pull the laptop out of the console. Or maybe I'll find a USB
><--> audio interface too.
>
>And then there are the antennas to deal with. Fun stuff. At least I got
>the power problem out of the way.
>
> > Nice Job Again!
>
>Thanks!
>
> > -------------
> > Dakota Dodge
> > Profile at:
> > http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/XgAJPmbQu2jpA/profile.htm
> > Truck Home Page: http://www.dakota2.4mg.com
>
>--
>Tod Oace, tod@quay.com
>
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