I am going to be mounting two cb antennas to my 1998 f150s toolbox. I was just wandering if anybody had any good ideas on how to do this and what length would be good? I don't want the antennas to high but I don't want them to low either. If anyone has any ideas and pics that would be great thanks.

 

5' firesticks

 

ganksta ill be running 2 3' black ones on my ford when can afford it. firestix makes mounts for them as well

http://www.firestik.com/CatalogFrame.htm

 

I got two 4' Firestiks with springs on them. If your gonna be taking your truck on any off roading or if you go in alot of parking decks and what not, i suggest springs, i've snapped one in half at the beach and have buddies that've snapped numerous ones. Anything shorter than a 3' antenna to me looks kinda gay, i only went with 4's to try to kill the long bed look on my truck. the taller i go, the shorter my overall truck looks at a glance. But on a single cab, reguler bed truck, 3's look perfect. I mounted them right up by the cab on the sides. I've seen guys put em on the back of the toolbox facing the tailgate and it just didn't look right to me....although that was on a chevy. The set up on twins looks pretty good however

 

Thanks for the help I am going to go with the 4 inch firestix on the spring that seems the best looking from what I saw in the photos thanks for all the help guys.

 

although the duels look good, it doesnt help with CB at all, if you understand radio and wave length, in order for the dual setup to work correctly you need to have them 9ft away from eachother. I run a single 102" whip antenna you gain on your receieve end and not chances of breaking a antenna

 

i mounted mine the the truck bed and then put the tool box in ... and it works fine ... ill dig out the camera and throw up some pictures. it was a easy install just had to drill 2 holes.

 

Just as a note of caution ! when you mount an antenna on the bed or tool box grounding can be an issue! for best performance and grounding run a ground strap from the tool box to the bed and a second grounding strap from the bed of the truck to the frame! That way you will have the best grounding and get the best out of your radio and antenna And if you want to go one step better ! ground the cab to the frame too! beds and cabs are mounted on rubber and the top cap on the bed too! I have been in Amateur Radio and mobile for years! proper grounding is a must for everything to match and for your radio and antenna to get out better does not matter if it CB or amateur radio you have to have a solid electrical ground for everything to work right and be able to get your signal out and be heard!!

 

Yes!!!! Thank you someone else who knows radio. ^^^^^

Yeah im sure it works "perfectly" But what is your SWR reading? When you take a duel setup which is designed really for a semi on either mirror which is about 9ft apart, and then slap it on a pickup on a maybe 4ft wife tool box/truck you run into problems. The signal from one antenna will hit the other antenna and then vice versa cutting your range down dramatically and killing your radio with the bad SWR. I could go on and on about it. I say f you run a cb run a 102 or a single antenna

 

I run dual 4" Not sure what you mean by hurting my range. I have great reception and could not be happier. The only thing i would change it to have 3' instead of 4'. When i take my truck in the woods they hit trees quite a bit. I used a tuner to tune the antennas. I did not have any problems with my ground. The truck bed is bolted directly to the frame. I can understand the toolbox and cab grounding but the cabs usually have a ground strap.