Well, I finally pulled the trigger. A little bit of post sale accessory installs at the dealer and I am going to come home with a 2013 Ford F150 Supercrew Raptor.
Looking for advice on some installs from others with either late model F150s or late model Raptors. There was a thread from a year or so ago that I participated in where I remember a fellow mounting his ham antenna on the edge of the side of the tailgate, using a trunk lip mount. I'm not sure I want to do that because I expect the tailgate to be going up and down somewhat often. I have a trunklip mount on order, a Comet HD5M (which I don't think would adjust to fit the tailgate side, anyway), and I'm wondering if it would work on the hood/fender - unfortunately I didn't spend much time looking at the truck today, and this is the best pic I have of that end:
The tricky bit is I want to park the truck in the garage, or else I'd put something on the roof (well, there's also a moonroof up there which would hamper things).
Any ideas? I don't think even a typical L-bracket NMO/SO239 fender mount would work on that hood/fender.
The other question I have is probably answerable by anyone with a recent F-series with the "upfitter" switches. Anybody put any radio gear (transceivers or scanners) on these switched outputs? IIRC there are 2x30A, 1x20A, 1x15A. Would it be acceptable to run a 50W Kenwood TM-D710A into one of the 30A outputs or run it right to the battery instead?
Thanks in advance and I think I have a couple weekends' worth of playing coming up
Looking for advice on some installs from others with either late model F150s or late model Raptors. There was a thread from a year or so ago that I participated in where I remember a fellow mounting his ham antenna on the edge of the side of the tailgate, using a trunk lip mount. I'm not sure I want to do that because I expect the tailgate to be going up and down somewhat often. I have a trunklip mount on order, a Comet HD5M (which I don't think would adjust to fit the tailgate side, anyway), and I'm wondering if it would work on the hood/fender - unfortunately I didn't spend much time looking at the truck today, and this is the best pic I have of that end:
The tricky bit is I want to park the truck in the garage, or else I'd put something on the roof (well, there's also a moonroof up there which would hamper things).
Any ideas? I don't think even a typical L-bracket NMO/SO239 fender mount would work on that hood/fender.
The other question I have is probably answerable by anyone with a recent F-series with the "upfitter" switches. Anybody put any radio gear (transceivers or scanners) on these switched outputs? IIRC there are 2x30A, 1x20A, 1x15A. Would it be acceptable to run a 50W Kenwood TM-D710A into one of the 30A outputs or run it right to the battery instead?
Thanks in advance and I think I have a couple weekends' worth of playing coming up