Ah yes...the "Good Old Days" of "Peaking and Tweaking" the CB's. Haven't
messed with that since I blew up my last one 7 years ago.
K40 makes a Mag-Mount kit for your antenna...and it's not that expensive
either. (Personally, I was always fond of the Wilson 1000's.)
>
> I wouldn't say it works perfectly. For an antenna to work at it's peak it
> has to be straight up and down, and not near any metal objects. But you're
> right that the ole 102" steel whip is the way to go. I used to mod CB's
> years ago (extra channels, unlocking BFO's,power and modulation mods) when
> you could, kinda like the way our trucks are today. I have a bunch of
folks
> in my area that run "heat" aka linear amps and the push the full 10 watts
> that you can get out of the finals into these amps and they sound like
crap
> and cause so much cross channel splatter it's pathetic. I have an old
> Teaberry Stalker IX Export that I'm temped to hookup again. I have an old
> K40 lip mount but there is no place to mount it on my Dak( except in the
> hood, hmmmm that may work, but would look ugly!!) Guess I gotta find a
> magnetic mount(any one have one that they want to part with???). If you
can
> find some of those old Cobra 148 GTL AM/SSB units you can have all sorts
of
> fun with them. Go 40 below CH1 and up to 80 above 40. Unlock the
"Clarifier"
> aka BFO, and do some nice audio mods as well as power mods like replacing
> the final output transistors. On the newer sets available today you can't
do
> all that neat stuff. I still have alot of my stuff in storage (OScope,
Freq
> counter, 20amp P/S, 2000w dummy load)...
>
>
> Greg
> 95 DSCC v6 5Spd no CB
>
>
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