Nsw/act Weekend Cruise

[Trumpy]

Dankman,

Cro and saleen1 have a rubber footed aerial mount that screws to the actual boot without damaging the paint.

I know that Cro has run power all the way from the battery to the sat-nav mount position, as he was unable to find suitable power closer. He has a separate cable running straight from the battery.

If you are not using a mobile phone kit, there is a power source behind the fuse box for the mobile phone car kit, all you need is spade connectors.

If you want more info, let me know and I will dig up the original thread

[Cro]

Trumpy beat me to it this time

There is no reliable power source that I could find in the boot.

I tried using the tow kit power, but could only get 2 watts transmitting out of 5 which is the power of my unit. The same with the reverse sensing gear which is why I ran power straight to the battery and earthed it in the boot.

I have a fuse just after the battery, and one on the negative earthed in the boot just incase.

The wire is run inside the bootliner into the cabin, down the side of the drivers seat, through the clutch grommet, and heat sheilded inside the engine bay and secured so it doesn't go anywhere I don't want it to go.

Strathfeild car radio's done this for $20.

I am now getting a full 5watts of power out and in when transmitting.

Since my antenna is right above the unit the cable can be kept short.

One other thing to consider, I know on my model the unit has a speaker, if you want an external speaker inside the cabin (or you can plug into aux kit if you have one), you need to run a cable with male and female end head phone jacks (RCA?). Basically like an extension cable for some headphones and plug them into your speakers.

I've gone one further with this as my CB support Voice Activated Transmissions (VOX) so I got myself a VOX headset and I can hear everything through a headphone and transmitt either by pushing a PTT (Transmitt) switch or setting CB to VOX where I can just talk and it will transmitt my signal.

To be honest with you, I'd rather you saw the setup we all have on the weekend and decide for yourself which one is best. We all have different setups of the same unit (Trumpy, Saleen1, Me)

This way it gives us more of a chance to tell you more technical detail, whilst demonstrating at the same time.

For the time being I'll see if I can get you my spare CB. It's the UH-044xr that I've been talking about. It's up in Sydney ATM, so I'll let you know shortly.

[Cro]

Give me a couple of mins, I'll take some pictures, watch this space.

[aaronmihe]

I'm a negative. in Sydney on Saturday - back in Canberra Saturday night late....

Then better do some domesticy type things or the new house will never get unpacked :(

A.

[Cro]

Ok check out http://gadan.info

If you want a better explanation, let me know, this only took me 20mins to put together...

[saleen]

I'm taking a spare handheld also that I'm happy to let somebody use for the day.

Just to let you know Dankman what I've done with my CB. I hooked mine upto the ciggy lighter power so it is ignition key activated. Bonus to this is you won't run your battery flat by leaving it on. But that is the only good point. A permanent power supply is better so when you switch to wideband(police/fire/ambo) you don't have to switch it back each time you start the car.(due to power cut out).

I actually installed my CB unit under the dash to keep the power cabling short, but have the face just below the tissue holder. My only problem is I think my reception could be better(maybe due to not enough power on the cigarette lighter power supply.) So anyway, without taking this topic off track any further, you can compare the way Trump, Cro and I have installed and maybe take the best of all our installs to make yours to suit.

See ya on the weekend,

Rob

[ms700]

If you want more info, let me know and I will dig up the original thread

Ohh will you just???

**b1tchslapped**

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Trumpy]

Ohh will you just???

**b1tchslapped**

Shaddup

[aniken]

I might join you guys for the drive down to Canberra, but that is about all I can manage timewise at the moment.

[Honest Gaza]

At the very least and I mean VERY LEAST get a 2watt Uniden UH-044XR.

Go see James or Chadi at Dick Smith Powerhouse Bankstown and tell em Ivan with the XRT sent ya.

$130 down from $168.

Rang the store, spoke to James. Seems that James doesn't remember Ivan too well (or his XR6T). I hate that.

I suggested that he should sell me one of the units for $130. He said "get f*cked". I said "I wish".

He asked "how many you want?" I said "one". He said "you can still get f*cked".

He said " I can do it for $130 if you buy 2 of them" I said "now YOU can get f*cked".

Best he can do for 1 unit is $155.

I'll talk to the missus and see what she thinks.

Honest Gaza