Alum body trucks and CB antennas
The topic of CB's comes up every so ofter here w/ varying opinions on CB's themselves. My question is for those still using them and have Fords alum body trucks, what are you doing to mount the antenn...
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harmanrk wrote:ACZL wrote:
To a degree, are alum body trucks killing off the use of CB's?
No, they were already dead. An invention called the 'Cell Phone' killed off the CB, long before Aluminum because common in vehicle bodies.
I disagree.
Cell phones, IMO, had little to do with the increasing lack of interest in 2-way radio, be it CB or Ham (Amateur) radio.
In spite of what many people think, there are vast areas of the Western United States that have spotty (at best) or no cell coverage at all.
I believe a major player in the demise of CB radio has been the way the cockpits of recent vehicles have been built. There simply is no place to mount a radio within reach of the driver. It has been that way for many years. Mounting the Yaesu radio in my 1999 truck rendered the ashtray unusable! By the time I added the brake controller and the screwdriver antenna controller, the dash on the driver's side is totally covered!
