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2025 Toyota Tundra Install

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2025 Toyota Tundra install.

Yaesu FTM-300
Motorola APX-8500
BlueSea Fuse Panel
BlueSea Automatic Timer Disconnect
EM Wave VHF Antenna
Tram 2m/70cm Antenna
Motorola 700/800mhz Antenna
PCTEL UHF Antenna
 

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Nice install. I had a 2008 Tundra full of radio crap and here was the start of the install with an Icom 706MKIIG and power distribution attached to a black plywood base under the rear seat. I ran 4ga wire from the battery to under the back seat to a box with 20 and 30A aircraft circuit breakers and a 175A Anderson Power Pole for the 500W SGC HF amplifier. There was a 200A fuse at the battery and I layered many more radios in over the years until I sold the truck a few years ago. The roof had two NMO mounts and I mounted a Tarheel 100HP screwdriver HF antenna behind the cab. At one point I had a 42ft Will Burt pneumatic mast in the bed.

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Nice install. I had a 2008 Tundra full of radio crap and here was the start of the install with an Icom 706MKIIG and power distribution attached to a black plywood base under the rear seat. I ran 4ga wire from the battery to under the back seat to a box with 20 and 30A aircraft circuit breakers and a 175A Anderson Power Pole for the 500W SGC HF amplifier. There was a 200A fuse at the battery and I layered many more radios in over the years until I sold the truck a few years ago. The roof had two NMO mounts and I mounted a Tarheel 100HP screwdriver HF antenna behind the cab. At one point I had a 42ft Will Burt pneumatic mast in the bed.

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Looked like you did it right! One hell of a mast!
 

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Looked like you did it right! One hell of a mast!
The mast had four 1/4" SS guy lines into the truck bed walls and a thick base plate that bolted into the bed. I don't know what I was thinking when I did this, I must have been drunk.

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Otherwise the Tundra is a great radio truck with zero RFI or spark plug noise on HF, best I've had and the extended cab roof is huge for planting antennas up there.
 

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The mast had four 1/4" SS guy lines into the truck bed walls and a thick base plate that bolted into the bed. I don't know what I was thinking when I did this, I must have been drunk.

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Otherwise the Tundra is a great radio truck with zero RFI or spark plug noise on HF, best I've had and the extended cab roof is huge for planting antennas up there.
Was the mast raised manually, electrically, pneumatic...?
 

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Thinking back on my Tundra install everything seemed so easy to take apart and run cables, etc. The only problem I had were air bags at the edges of the headliner and it was a b*tch running coax from the roof mount NMOs. I found an area in the rear where I could avoid the bags and bring the cables down.
 

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Thinking back on my Tundra install everything seemed so easy to take apart and run cables, etc. The only problem I had were air bags at the edges of the headliner and it was a b*tch running coax from the roof mount NMOs. I found an area in the rear where I could avoid the bags and bring the cables down.
The'25 was fairly easy to run cables as well, once you evaluated it (for a long time) and came up with a plan. My roof coax go down the C-pillar and avoided the air bags.
 
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