Just got a new headache rack for my pick up. Just for fun was thinking about mounting my sirio trucker on it. Question is will it work?
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Antenna on Headach rack
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Hell ya it will work. The higher you can get your mobile antenna the better. I ran a 96" Francis Amazer whip on my Toyota pickup. Had it mounted atop my roll bar. Best performing mobile I ever owned.
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Bobby,
Take Unit 399's suggestion and run with it before all the naysayers chime in. I see a TON of these setups on the road.
Take Unit 399's suggestion and run with it before all the naysayers chime in. I see a TON of these setups on the road.
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It will work just fine as long as you ground the frame of the headache rack to the truck on all four corners. Maybe one ground will work but four Mo' Better.
on a headache rack a center or top loaded antenna will perform a lot better than a base loaded antenna,,,,hince a trucker mirror mount of some kind,,,, sirio is a fine choice,,,i did a wilson 5000 on the luggage rack on my blazer and was really surprised on the range i got,,, but went ahead and drilled a hole and put a base load wilson 5000 on it and could not tell any difference,,,good luck on your install
Raising the antenna two feet above your ground plane will increase ground losses as well as drastically increasing common mode current problems. Most people are happy to be able to talk 3 miles though so it wouldn't matter in that case. On top of a headache rack as opposed to on top of a large flat sheet metal roof, about 90% of the performance will be lost mounted on top of the headache rack.
Lots of good reading here.
http://www.k0bg.com/antmount.html
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You took my post the wrong way, I was responding to yours using a different take but essentially saying the same thing.
Another example,
A definite possibility of a sure maybe.
Im still gonna mount my scanner antenna on it!!!
Works fine on the headache rack if you have done your bonding properly. I have done this with good results, beats a mirror mount on a big truck! I agree that it's not as good as hard roof mount. However our 2 trucks set up this way, perform very well.