stiks should get here by the weekend, and im makin a run to the junkyard to find myself a cop car spotlight so i will post up more pics then

 

Man I hope you have better luck with the RadioShack CBs than I have. Gone through 2, including the one you have. Always the volume control that dies. Planning on soldering a new pot into the first one I got that had weather band.

 

lol, anything radio shack is of poor quality, i went the radio because its soo small, even though the reviews say its not really a good radio, it sounds like they last around 2 years, so ill just replace it if it dies on me, im kinda stuck because no other radio is that small. but your right about radioshack radios

 

how much did it cost

 

it was around $60 i think, and then 3% sales tax brough it to like, $62ish

 

wow thats expensive

 

yeah i know, i wasnt to happy with the price, but if your trying to install a radio in a tight space its perfect, its not the best radio out there, but ive been gettin around 3mi. with an untuned mag mount from walmar

 

you can get a uniden the same size for $63

 

is it the pro520xl something or other? lol, thats gonna be my next radio when the ratshack dies on me, thanks for the headsup, i never knew it was small until now

 

Here is my RadioShat unit. I just got a patch cable tonight to go from the external speaker jack on it to my truck's stereo AUX-in until I get around to replacing the volume control pot.

Listened to the weather band loud as hell all the way home...

 

so im guessing you have an aftermarket stereo system with an aux jack, right?

 

Yeah, it's nothin fancy. Think I payed about $50 for it, but it plays CDs and the radio works.. hehe

 

ahh, i see, lol i got two questions now...both of wich are pointless...but on your clock next to the heater settings, there is a button that says :00, like you use it to set the seconds, but the clock doesnt display seconds so what does it do? and secondly your cb says wx/compass, whats the compass mean?

 

The :00 button zeros the minutes back to x:00.

If you look above the mic plug there is a switch that says WX/CB/CMP. The compass is the same as CB mode only instead of showing the channel it shows a compass on the screen. It needs to be calibrated but I never have done it.

 

wow thats a good idea i want the compass mode now lol.

i bet it sucks when its like xx:45 or something and you accidentally press the :00 button lol haha

 

lol, yeah that would suck. I find the buttons sort of hard to press though, I usually use a pen or something.

Here is a pic of the compass... the truck is pointing south. Will mess with it some day to calibrate it, have had it forever and any documentation I might have had for it is gone.

 

You'd think so, seems simple enough a feature to include. I'm not sure if they still make that model or not, it's a few years old.

 

anyway, so i got my antenna's and my co-phase cable in the mail today, im just waiting for my mounting brackets.... heres a tip for anyone looking for dual firestik's im gonna give an example with the 4ft since that was what ive been researching.

a dual firstik kit at the cheapest is around 109.00

i ordered all the componests seperately on ebay using only the firestik components and not the cheapo knockoffs. the 2 antennas that i ordered sepereatly were 24.99, so thats about 50.00. i got my 18'ft cophase calbe for about 15.00, 2 mounting brackets (ss124a) for like 7 each, so we'll round that to 15.00. and 2 springs for about 9 each so we'll round that to 20.00.

so the total is

antennas 50.00
co-phase cable 15.00
mounting brackets 15.00
springs 20.00
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total 100.00

your savings.........$9.00

for some reason, i only paid 80 and i saved 40 bucks, so i think i overpriced the items above a little bit. but anyway i saved 40.00, but the downside is, i dont get that little mic hanger that comes with the firestik kit

 

well wheres the antennas

 

lol, on my living room floor