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Well, I can tell you that K40 sticks will break at the base doing off roading! Standard K40 baseload antennas will develop high vswr after a couple of years from a crimp connection that goes bad in the middle of the loading coil.

Off roading the best solution is to tie it down!!! Whatever you use it will need to tied down for at least two reasons. Trees and the physical abuse that the violent movements the truck will go through. All the rest is a piece of cake!

P.S. Make sure you have a locking rear or a posi diff. I got stuck on flat ground in two holes that lifted my FR and RL tires off the ground. I could not move. Needed to jack the truck up and push it off! Could not push it, called my buddy on the CB for help.

[QUOTE="RonL, post: 351391, member: 24347"] Well, I can tell you that K40 sticks will break at the base doing off roading! Standard K40 baseload antennas will develop high vswr after a couple of years from a crimp connection that goes bad in the middle of the loading coil. Off roading the best solution is to tie it down!!! Whatever you use it will need to tied down for at least two reasons. Trees and the physical abuse that the violent movements the truck will go through. All the rest is a piece of cake! P.S. Make sure you have a locking rear or a posi diff. I got stuck on flat ground in two holes that lifted my FR and RL tires off the ground. I could not move. Needed to jack the truck up and push it off! Could not push it, called my buddy on the CB for help. [/QUOTE]

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