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2000 Durango antenna mount options
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Nothing says loving like drilling holes and putting in NMO mount antennas. That durango has plenty of acreage for several. Pull the headliner down to see where your support members are so you can avoid drilling there.
Bruce -
Piece of cake, my friend... Here's my year 2000 Durango. Antenex Phantom (800Mhz) NMO drilled in the roof same location as the ceiling light in the rear seat - pleanty of real estate there).
My VHF is on an Antenex trunk lip mount & there's also a Dodge Ram hood mount used for my heavier antenna's (fits the Durango like a glove) which utilizes the fender bolt already there. Cables route through a grommet in the firewall real close by.
No pic's of the radios inside as I'm in a state of remounting stuff as I picked up the BC-RH96 and redoing some power.
Pete
Piece of cake, my friend... Here's my year 2000 Durango. Antenex Phantom (800Mhz) NMO drilled in the roof same location as the ceiling light in the rear seat - pleanty of real estate there).
My VHF is on an Antenex trunk lip mount & there's also a Dodge Ram hood mount used for my heavier antenna's (fits the Durango like a glove) which utilizes the fender bolt already there. Cables route through a grommet in the firewall real close by.
No pic's of the radios inside as I'm in a state of remounting stuff as I picked up the BC-RH96 and redoing some power.
Pete
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Multiple Antennas question.....
Pete,
Nice setup! How do you like the 800mhz Antenex Phantom? Do you use it for transmitting as well as receiving? Also I take it that VHF/UHF is via a seperate antenna you mentioned above. Do all antennas go to one radio? If so are you using some sort of antenna coupler and what brand is it?
I'm planning on seperating my VHF/UHF from 800 mhz....so it'll be a total of 2 antennas for me, but I don't quite know how I'm going to feed two cables into a 996T.
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Pete,
Nice setup! How do you like the 800mhz Antenex Phantom? Do you use it for transmitting as well as receiving? Also I take it that VHF/UHF is via a seperate antenna you mentioned above. Do all antennas go to one radio? If so are you using some sort of antenna coupler and what brand is it?
I'm planning on seperating my VHF/UHF from 800 mhz....so it'll be a total of 2 antennas for me, but I don't quite know how I'm going to feed two cables into a 996T.
Not in my line of sight at all. I was wondering that when I first ordered it but it's over far enough that it's out of view. One thing if you do put a trunk lip mount there, it's fairly thin sheet metal so don't crank the screws down or it will show a little bump on the hood if you ever remove it. I had the misfortune of doing this but it's so small that I think I'm the only one that would notice. It's going on 7 years old so there are other little dings & scratches so it's not that big of deal.
The VHF antenna is tuned to the 154mhz range for a Kenwood TK705-D business radio. I drive from Minneapolis (Almost all Digital now) to rural Wisconsin very frequently and just for fun one time I threw an SP1300 slpitter (available from Scannermaster) and fed the Phantom (strictly 800Mhz scanning) & the VHF into my Pro-2096. All the Digital was clear as a bell then when I hit WI, I switched the active bank to all the VHF stuff and it was perfect. So I guess 2 antennas into 1 radio worked for me. Although not tuned for AIR, the VHF antenna picks up all the GA & commercial really well. Even all the rural MULTICOM and UNICOM.
I'm working on mounting a BC-RH96 today and hope to have it figured out.
Where have you guys mounted radios in your Durangos ?? Upload some Photos please. Also, anyone have ideas where to mount the amplified Radio Shack remote speaker ?
Pete
The VHF antenna is tuned to the 154mhz range for a Kenwood TK705-D business radio. I drive from Minneapolis (Almost all Digital now) to rural Wisconsin very frequently and just for fun one time I threw an SP1300 slpitter (available from Scannermaster) and fed the Phantom (strictly 800Mhz scanning) & the VHF into my Pro-2096. All the Digital was clear as a bell then when I hit WI, I switched the active bank to all the VHF stuff and it was perfect. So I guess 2 antennas into 1 radio worked for me. Although not tuned for AIR, the VHF antenna picks up all the GA & commercial really well. Even all the rural MULTICOM and UNICOM.
I'm working on mounting a BC-RH96 today and hope to have it figured out.
Where have you guys mounted radios in your Durangos ?? Upload some Photos please. Also, anyone have ideas where to mount the amplified Radio Shack remote speaker ?
Pete
Pete,
I really like the idea of the trunk lip mount on the hood, and I think seeing that I'm only going to mount one antenna for now, that's going to be the winner. I have an external speaker mounted with velcro on the center of the dash, down by the defroster vents. The wire is run along the dash, down and around underneath. Another thought that I had was to mount the speaker up by the rear a/c, above and behind your head, and run the wire under the headliner.
I really like the idea of the trunk lip mount on the hood, and I think seeing that I'm only going to mount one antenna for now, that's going to be the winner. I have an external speaker mounted with velcro on the center of the dash, down by the defroster vents. The wire is run along the dash, down and around underneath. Another thought that I had was to mount the speaker up by the rear a/c, above and behind your head, and run the wire under the headliner.
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