Old Surfer Dude
Chesapeake Beach, MD
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As Cardiac says: "don't be too quick to give up on the glass mount.
I can pull up our local repeater (full quieting) from the Shenandoah
National Park (100 air miles). Icom-2100H 50 watts and APS151 antenna-side mount on Merc Mountineer.
Of course the mountain top makes it happen.
John-K3MZV
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2003 Coach House Platinum
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SCVJeff
Santa Clarita, CA.
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Any glass mount is always going to be a compromise to a hard piece of coax plugged straight into the antenna. You will never get the same performance trying to couple through 1/4” of glass. The question is what are you willing to live with?
Jeff - WA6EQU
'06 Itasca Meridian 34H, CAT C7/350
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TXiceman
(Near) Houston,TX
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I have a dual band Larsen mounted on the right front corner of the fender. The angle mount is screwed to the inside lip of the fender and no visible holes. The range and coverage is excellent. As an alternate you might want to consider a good magnetic mount dual band antenna and put it in the center of the roof. Used this for over a year with great coverage.
Ken
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Vintage 1979 Silver Streak Supreme Rocket toted by a 2002 F350, crewcab dually, 7.3L,4.10 axle,SCMT. Travel with two miniature Schnauzers and one African Gray parrot. Practicing for retirement!
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Cardiac
Valparaiso, IN USA
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SCVJeff wrote:Any glass mount is always going to be a compromise to a hard piece of coax plugged straight into the antenna. You will never get the same performance trying to couple through 1/4” of glass. The question is what are you willing to live with?
That's it in a nutshell.......
Bob - K9YH
2009 Palomino Puma 26 FBSS
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RoadXYZ
Somewhere USA
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Thank you for your posts .. now hubby is going to go where he had the antennas mounted on the old vehicle. there has to be someone out there who has mounted antennas on a 2008 Suburban.
We are traveling down the Road "Side by Side"
2004 Alpenlite TT 28RL
2008 Suburban 2500 Lt
Home Base: Tri-Cities WA - USA
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rocknrun
NC
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RoadXYZ wrote:Thank you for your posts .. now hubby is going to go where he had the antennas mounted on the old vehicle. there has to be someone out there who has mounted antennas on a 2008 Suburban.
Trying posting in the installs section on Radio Reference.com
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/
I'm sure you will get some responses and maybe even some pics.
73, W4KTL
1995 Thor Residency 35 foot
2004 VW Beetle Convertible
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alexs
Westminster, MD
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Look for a local commercial radio shop, I am sure there is a local Kenwood or Motorola dealer nearby. They should be able to do a professional job and tell you exactly what they have done before. There are plenty of fleet Suburbans out there and they should have install plenty of radios in them.
Also consider spending a few $ and have the power wire pull through the firewall while you have the truck in the shop without killing a day of work and buying tools that cost as much as the job.
If your husband is as busy as I am, it would be a lot faster to send the truck out. I am still without a radio in the car the i bought 5 months ago. I just don't feel like sending the car out now that I have accumulated all the tools and parts that I needed to do the job myself.
Alex
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