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[Davidbt]

PERFECT!!! I love that Tram 3500!

after your sure the antenna works well for you in that location... put the coax down into the bed... in the corner of the bed is a plastic drain cover drill out a 3/4" hole through the cover....and buy a few 3/4" grommets from Amazon .... then go in your cab and find a reference point make sure you can drill through the cab and run the coax permanently.
after you drill the hole make sure you paint both sides so it wont rust... I also put silicone the holes to keep out water and to keep the coax from moving.
I bought these Grommets ... not sure if I used a 1 inch hole... you can figure out the size of the hole... but I kind of think it was 3/4 inch

I think there is access under the cab that leads under the rear seat. I'm still researching it on the 5th gen ram form.

 

[niceguy71]

I think there is access under the cab that leads under the rear seat. I'm still researching it on the 5th gen ram form.

I'm not a fan of putting the coax between the cab and the bed... if the excess coax moves... no big deal if it goes in the bed.... but if it goes under the truck and drags on the tar ... or touches the drive shaft or exhaust..... the way I showed you.. it will never fall to the ground... and you can take the antenna off the roof and run it through the car wash as the antenna and ALL the coax will be in the bed lower than any of the car wash brushes.

 

[niceguy71]

tomorrow find a tall hill you can park your dodge on.... or try it from the driveway... and put it on 37 or 38 lower side band let the radio warm up for 10 minutes... turn the watts about 3/4 of the way up ( I hardly ever go past the halfway mark ) ...make up a three digit number and like 835 and say anyone have a copy on 835 in Arizona??? bet you'll talk to a lot of people tomorrow

use any numbers you want but NOT 309 ... that's Jenny's number and she gets really mad if you use her number.

 

[Davidbt]

tomorrow find a tall hill you can park your dodge on.... or try it from the driveway... and put it on 37 or 38 lower side band let the radio warm up for 10 minutes... turn the watts about 3/4 of the way up ( I hardly ever go past the halfway mark ) ...make up a three digit number and like 835 and say anyone have a copy on 835 in Arizona??? bet you'll talk to a lot of people tomorrow

use any numbers you want but NOT 309 ... that's Jenny's number and she gets really mad if you use her number.

Thanks. I sat in the driveway earlier today and tried. I'll have to pay attention to warming the radio up though. If you hear 717 Sierra Vista, that will be me.

 

[Davidbt]

tomorrow find a tall hill you can park your dodge on.... or try it from the driveway... and put it on 37 or 38 lower side band let the radio warm up for 10 minutes... turn the watts about 3/4 of the way up ( I hardly ever go past the halfway mark ) ...make up a three digit number and like 835 and say anyone have a copy on 835 in Arizona??? bet you'll talk to a lot of people tomorrow

use any numbers you want but NOT 309 ... that's Jenny's number and she gets really mad if you use her number.

I could drive a little up our local mountain and try sometime. I live in South East Arizona and our mountains are spread out. The Native Apache called them Sky Islands.

 

[slowmover]

A pleasure to read this.

 

[niceguy71]

Thanks so much Steve, you've been very helpful. I got the swr's between 1.3 and 1.5

by the way, the antenna looks good there! and I think it will still work out fairly well.