Ultimate stealth antenna

**The Chariot** · 12-11-2009, 02:57 PM

Well, I found a solution for about as close to 100% stealth on a CB antenna install.

I've read about those old antennas that looked just like an OEM FM antenna but were a little longer (for CB's 11 meter band) with a circuit on them which splits off FM/AM from CB. Well, I know they suck. But... I really wanted the mounting hardware so I could take one of those 48 inch CB antennas that do work so I could mount it in the stock location.

I found one at an auction site, new old stock still in the package for about fifteen bucks. It just came in today and the mounting hardware is perfect for a stealth install. It looks like it was made for my Ford. So, I'll use it to mount a modern CB antenna, and a Firestick CB to AM/FM antenna splitter for stealth install without nearly the horrible compromise the "FM antenna which supports CB" had. Instead, I'll have a CB antenna which supports FM. FM will be compromised, but I pretty much listen to AM talk radio and MP3s for music.

Here's a real antenna I plan to use with it:

**srtga** · 12-11-2009, 03:19 PM

Yee Ha! Here comes another Ga. redneck to the CB party! Heard he has a pickup too....

**The Chariot** · 12-11-2009, 04:15 PM

Actually, this is the 2nd CB. The 1st went in the F250, non-stealth a couple of weeks back and I already have a save from it. The stealth install will be in the show truck which is already pretty loaded with countermeasures.

**srtga** · 12-11-2009, 04:42 PM

I finally got mine up and running in the new road car and the first traffic I heard on the road was a trucker giving a bear report!

**The Chariot** · 12-11-2009, 06:48 PM

Funny when you think about it. A guy in a hot Caddy and a guy in a truck that is the last truck you'd expect to see a CB on... and here we are with them. I guess if someone like Cat4 can run it on a Corvette, everything is fare game. It really has turned out to be a useful countermeasure tool in the short time I've had it.

On the way back from taking the wife out to dinner tonight there was a big rig truck on a dark stretch of non-interstate who's rear lights had a connection problem (they kept blinking on and off). CB came in handy then. Turned on the CB and said "south bound driver on xxx, you've got a problem with your tail-lights" and he gave me a very grateful reply (the county police station is near his route). I was little surprised he was running his radio on an empty back road but it was nice knowing I had a tool which *might* get his attention.

**srtga** · 12-11-2009, 07:34 PM

I never would have considered a CB radio before I saw some of the vids posted on this forum. Now I feel naked without one.

At first I was surprised at the amount of useful info you can get on 2 lanes. Any time you are near any kind of trucking hub or even a logging operation a lot of the drivers seem to know each other and call out plenty of bear reports/road hazards etc.

I often ask drivers that I'm about to pass if it's clear and they'll usually back off and let me around.