Bought one of the 4 foot electric blue firestik antennas for the Bronc, its the one with the adjustable SWR, drilled a hole in the rear bumper and ran the coax up along the driver's side around the firewall and to my CB, works great. Only problem is when I go into the parking garage at work I have to push the antenna under my spare tire carrier, I knew it was good for something.. This is the place I bought it from www.truckcitycbgps.com the guys there know their CB stuff.

jermil01......I have always heard that the antenna shoul be atleast a foot above thr roof line. Is that the way you have your, and did you tune it? I have mine on the tire carrier with a ground wire to the frame.

Allcruisen :pimp :pimp :pimp :gousa

I've got a Firestik II as well and love it. Adjustable SWR and takes a beating on the trail. Seems to work great too.

I guess with mine its about 6 inches or more above the roof from where its mounted on the bumper, reception is good and so is my transmission with my Cobra sxt25..There's an old timer here in town who's been tuning CB's for 40 years put the SWR meter on it, he said it was set perfectly the way I had it, did not need to make a single adjustment, and all I did was just mount it. He told me you can fry the CB if your cable is too short, or if the antenna is not properly grounded..your's should be fine the way you have it grounded.

I've heard alot of good things about the Firesticks and I plan on installing one when I put the CB back in my truck.

What? Those guys don't sell Linears? I need a 125 watt Silver Eagle for my Cobra 29 LTD Classic :mrgreen:

Good luck with Dixie Pirate :lol: ...check these guys out too, they have a pretty good site.. http://www.cbshop.webtrix.net/

Thanks man. :cheers:

Linears aren't illegal to sell here....just illegal to use...lol.

I hear if you get busted with one they charge a dollar per watt :finger:

I have a firefly which is supposedly next generation firestik. Its thinner and more flexible, I have not had any problems with it so far..

i have a shity 2ft Firtstik. i have no reception at all
well let me rephrase that i have about 10ft
reception in front and in the rear of the bronco
and its mounted on my rear bumper on drivers
side. im just gonna go to wallyworld and get one
of the magnetic ones for the top of the bronco or
i might just go get a 4ft one who knows.

1982, the 2 foot is nowhere near big enough, you have to get that thing up over the roof to push the transimission and reception out past the Bronco, something about the radio waves reflecting back on the truck. Go with the 4ft or the six I think is the next size..Your's is mounted in the same spot as mine.

The previous owner of my truck had a shorty mounted to the rear bumper...no reception, so I made an adpter and mounted it to my mirrorand it improved significantly...always remember...location, location, location.


So what are the four foot Firestik II going for these days?

It was $40 shipping and handling from Washington to Florida. I probably could have saved $10 bucks or so and bought it local, but these guys knew their stuff and said to call if I needed help with tuning it or anything..

I could of picked it up for you, tested it out...and then next time I am in FL I could have brought it down for ya... :roll:

I have a Cobra 148NWST, with a 12 foot firestik cable, firestik mount, and 4' firestik II antenna. The antenna, wire, and mount came as a kit for 38 or 48 bucks, I am not at my home computer now, but will post the link and price to it when I get home.

It's mounted on the top bar of the tire carrier, and works great. The antenna I bought is a no ground antenna, you can get the ground antenna if you want...but the site I got it from said that no grounds will work just as well, and is what the majority of truckers are starting to use.

Anyways, I first tuned the antenna with an external swr meeter, then tuned the antenna via the controls on the CB. Channels 1 and 40 I am tuned at 1.8:1 ratio, and channel 20 I am about 1.4 or 1.5:1 ratio. Both firestik and Cobra say no more than 3:1 or you will damage your radio.

Bob......I gots a Texas 396, with a small 250 watt linear that I never used, really I mean it, {YEAH RIGHT}.

I have the 5' Firestik II and only paid 25 bux here locally and mounted it were I posted above.

Allcruisen :pimp :pimp :pimp :gousa

does a company make a mirror mount for a 93 bronco?

go to a trucker store(whatever it is like a Flying J)
they have everything

I could of picked it up for you, tested it out...and then next time I am in FL I could have brought it down for ya... :roll:

If only I knew that. Hell I could have saved some money.. :cheers:

does a company make a mirror mount for a 93 bronco?

I'm not sure if they make a mirror mount, but they do make a fender mount. If you have the metal elephant ear mirrors on your Bronc it might work.

93_bronco...........Do you have the old style mirrors? If you do, then yes, if you have the late style mirrors I dont think so. But, like someone suggested go on line to like http://www.kenselectronics.com or http://firestik.com/CatalogFrame.htm. Good luck

Allcruisen :pimp :pimp :pimp :gousa

I got mirror mounts. and i just installed two Cobra 3' High Gear antennas (co phased) gotto go to radio shack to pick up an swr tomorrow to tune them but already the kick the crap out of the cheap no names I had on before (deisel, i think).

I got mirror mounts. and i just installed two Cobra 3' High Gear antennas (co phased) gotto go to radio shack to pick up an swr tomorrow to tune them but already the kick the crap out of the cheap no names I had on before (deisel, i think).

Got any pictures installing that?

Just a couple at my superford in the BIG RED album. When I had the carpeting up, I routed the cophase rg59 cables. so you can't see them. I drilled a hole just inboard of the mirrors and used that as my base mount. I got lucky, when I bought the Bronco, the previous owner had the outrigger style mirrors (he towed stuff) so it was a quick drill job and whammo... instant antenna mounts.

Sweet..I'll have to get pics of mine.

I got my 4ft Firestik II in a "no ground plane" kit that came with a certain length of coax that is not supposed to be cut. Only the center conductor hooks to the antenna... the shield is not used at all on the antenna end. I've never had a problem talking to anybody and nobody's complained so I guess it works fine. When I first got it I talked to my brother across the river from up on a mtn, which was probably 5 miles, and not really line-of-sight since there was a ridge between us. The spring is too weak for a 4 ft whip, and it really gets to moving when I'm bouncing around... it's taken the paint off the top ridge of the fiberglass top. I don't think it's hurt the antenna, but I do tie it down to the carrier to go in parking garages since I don't think it's good to bounce it off the girders :toothless
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yeah, I tried a spring base on the mirror mounts, got up on the highway, and it looked like the Bronco was FLOGGING itself with both whip antennas. Too effing funny, and Noisy too!!! I need to pick up an SWR to tune both antennas, man what a beyotch that is going to be! ( I have to adjust the length on BOTH antennas as I tune it. Very time consuming!!) Anyone have any suggestions to make the process easier-anyone done a dual antenna tune?

could someone tell me what is a good match for a Cobra 25 LTD Classic. Also is 18 foot ant cable that is best

Firestiks are good, so are Cobra HighGears, those are your classic adjustable plastic covered whips. K40 puts out a good deck mounted antenna. And if you are SUPER SERIOUS... there are several manufacturers of 2meter antennas Like Delta Star and Hyperdyne that make insane antennas (you know, 8 feet tall with the twisted center section that looks like copper piping that had been wrapped around a baseball bat, and someone removed the bat, leaving the copper inside of a plastic housing?) Killer antenna, can push 10,000 watts easy without heating up. problem is, you look like a radio dork if you mount one on your bronco!!!

my .02 anyway.

kurt

also, any good cb store will sell you decent cable, just don't go to radio shack...that cable is THIN!!! not enough shielding. If you own a Cobra 25ltd like i do.. go the same way I went... four foot adjustable Cobra HighGear antenna with heavy duty rg59 cables (9mm i think) any-who the thicker the better!!!

good luck... if you need an SWR meter, let me know...you could borrow mine.

yeah, I tried a spring base on the mirror mounts, got up on the highway, and it looked like the Bronco was FLOGGING itself with both whip antennas. Too effing funny, and Noisy too!!! I need to pick up an SWR to tune both antennas, man what a beyotch that is going to be! ( I have to adjust the length on BOTH antennas as I tune it. Very time consuming!!) Anyone have any suggestions to make the process easier-anyone done a dual antenna tune?

get a resistor ( to the best of my memory you need a 52 ohm resistor, but it wouldn't hurt to double check on the ohms ) from radio shack or some other electronics outlet and a couple of alligator clips, put em together, remove the coax from one antenna, clip on the resistor from the center wire to the woven wire , and tune the other antenna to your best match, then do the other antenna,

..... The spring is too weak for a 4 ft whip, and it really gets to moving when I'm bouncing around... it's taken the paint off the top ridge of the fiberglass top.

If you take a tennis ball and poke a small hole in it so you can snugly slip it over the antenna,position it on the antenna so that it hits your top instead. it will protect your antenna from damage. A short peice of garden hose will work also. That wire that wraps around your fiberglass whip is the actual antenna, the fiberglass just supports the wire.
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