Speachless... Ok, maybe not, but close!
Wow. 44 pages. Took me over 3 hours to read through everything. All I can say is AMAZING JOB. As a former vol FD member, I know what it's like to go to extremes to alter your POV to be more efficent at helping others. My current job won't let me do that anymore, but I'm helping people in other ways (Active Duty).
The attention to detail and precision in your planning is astounding. I can't tell you how many times I've torn my truck apart to rebuild it because I didn't like some minor aspect of how it was set up. Most of the time it was my fault for not looking at the bigger picture and planning ahead. You have done an outstanding job of that, and it seems to have made all of your upgrades smoother since you designed modularity into it from the beginning.
I would love to steal ideas from your (and everyone else's') ideas and feedback, but alas, being a 2007 JK Wrangler, there doesn't really seem to be many "radio friendly" mounting locations that don't impede passenger comfort or driver visibility. For that matter, because I use both the hard and soft tops, I'm extremely limited on good antenna mounting locations, and have nothing beside the hood with decent ground plane. I'm in the middle of repainting/building a '79 CJ5 which I hope my planning will be better on. It will have much more room for all the radio goodies I want to add...
Anyone have any good suggestions for antenna locations on jeeps? I already have a 3' firestik CB and 3' firestik scanner antennas mounted on the tailgate behind the spare tire. I am looking to add VHF/UHF capability (MURS/GMRS bands for the time being - maybe HAM later on) to both jeeps, but can't seem to figure out where to put the antennas on the '07. The '79 is a metal tank, so ground plane shouldn't an issue - just an NMO on top of the rear fender wells since it's always running topless.
Any ideas/advice?
Once again, beautiful truck!
