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[QUOTE="Jason, post: 941360, member: 430"] On the roof would give you best transmission and receive abilities, and will act as a large grounding plain. Just like any other antenna, you want it as high as you can get it, with no blackages in 360* of the antenna. Well..as few blockages as you can, if you have a fifth wheel or somwthing, that'll block it some, and is unavoidable. Also, on a pickup, one antenna only..the majority of your dual antenna setups on a big truck, are a working antenna, and a dummy antenna for balancing out aesthetically. You will notice one is typically a cheap fiberglass, and the other a better, steel antenna. I ran a browning coiled antenna on my Pete, and the drivers side was just a generic one that came new on the truck. Wo live antennas close together will tend to really do a number on performance. I always bought my coax, had it madeand cut on the spot, you don't want a ton of excess coax cable laying around, nor do you want to wind the excess up tightly. If I had excess, I always bunched it loosely, and ran it up on top of the pass side sun visor, and laid the bunched part inside the strap on the visor. Coiled tight coax can also cause problems. Make sure your swr's are as close to 1:1 as you can get. I believe 1.3:1 is the absolute farthest you want to get, I always seemed to be able to get 1.2:1 and couldn't get any lower with all of the stainless and chrome close by. [/QUOTE]
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