Your install job is right on target, so professional looking, almost factory!
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About to run some power for my GMRS - before I poke around, where's this grommet located?Power is directly to the battery, through the available grommet above the main harness.
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Up and to the left of the brake pedal.
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Why ground the hood?
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Very well done... nice work!
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Great install! Very nice.
This is *very* interesting. I have a Midland MTX-275 GMRS with a hood mounted antenna (Aux6 per). Whenever the parking break is *off*, the squelch no longer works. Makes me wonder if it’s a groundin-plane vs. a grounding issue.
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I'm tall enough that the seat is all the way back, and I have to lean forward and peer around the A pillar to see the antenna.
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Well, I'm not in the industry so I do what I can. So far, they must not be adding much noise, since my contacts report a perfectly clear signal. Certainly no noise on the receive side, even on fringe areas.
I'm using a NanoVNA. Just fine for my purposes.
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An excellent article. It's to create the best possible ground plane for any given body configuration. Since we don't have a metal roof, the hood and chassis floor are the ground plane, but Ford doesn't bond the hood to the chassis. Will it work without? Probably. There is a lot of metal below the antenna. But $10 and a half hour of work to get a good RF bond is worth it. Note that Ford bonds the appropriate panels on the F150 to make rooftop antennas work better.
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Does the Larson antenna come with a base (that attaches below your bracket) and coax cable? I'd guess that a 10-ft. long coax would be plenty to go through the firewall and to the radio.
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The larson antenna doesn't come with anything. I purchased an NMO base with coax
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M255NL2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I liked this one because the PL259 was not soldered on - trimming the coax to my need was trivial. I doubt mine is 4 ft long...
I bought this stainless bracket for the NMO mount
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LMHGW8O/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I fabricated the lower half of the bracket from scrap stainless. Never mix metal types...
I have an ICOM 5100 that I removed from my truck when I sold it. I want to install it in my 2022 Wildtrak. How did you remove the molding under the steering wheel? Does it pop off with regular trim tools? That looks like the perfect spot so I can still access the SD card easily. Any issues with that location that you ran into?
Thanks, Dennis
Thanks, Dennis
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Hey, Dennis. No issues in ~7 months. No tools required - it just pivots down once the clips disengage. The clips are loud, but once you've done it once, it's trivial. In this pic from the service manual, all those purple spots on the back are the clips. I grab just to the left of the column and pull sharply toward the seat (not so much pulling down).
Thank you very much!! I will give that a go. It seems easier to mount with the molding removed than trying to slip the radio body up from underneath and properly secure it. Did you have to create a metal bracket or just drill into that existing metal plate? I saw a GMRS install on a separate thread where he bridged some existing screws with a metal plate. That spot is in the upper left void under the steering wheel and pedals.
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