Several years ago I posted our various installs including our daily driver 1995 Ford F150.
See original thread here: 1995 Ford F150
At that time the truck was equipped Motorola UHF business band with an NMO mount antenna on the left side of the hood, a Uniden scanner with a NMO mount antenna behind the cab, and a glass mount antenna for the phone. Years later I switched the scanner out for a CB, and added a Wilson Sleek cradle booster for the phone. The Sleek worked great with the glass mount antenna, but the CB was only good for monitoring due to the antenna directly behind the cab (as was expected when I installed it in place of the scanner antenna) I recently upgraded the Sleek to a wireless booster, unfortunately I couldn't get enough separation of the interior antenna from the glass mount and therefore oscillation occurred on all bands. According to the WeBoost manual, as long as the booster was improving the signal (and the phone app confirmed it was) it was perfectly safe to run it in that condition. I figured I could improve on performance by mounting antennas in the roof, and it had been something I'd wanted to do for years, it just hadn't been a priority. I already had the antennas and a quick trip to the electronics store scored new NMO mounts. Might have got by with the old ones, but no point in going to the effort only to replace with old cables. A couple hours in the shop later, and we had it done. The phone and UHF antennas are in the roof, and the CB antenna was moved to the left side of the hood where the UHF had been. I should have done it this way from the start, performance was greatly improved. I also recently upgraded the head unit to one with Bluetooth, so we now have the convenience of hands free calling like our newer vehicles.
See original thread here: 1995 Ford F150
At that time the truck was equipped Motorola UHF business band with an NMO mount antenna on the left side of the hood, a Uniden scanner with a NMO mount antenna behind the cab, and a glass mount antenna for the phone. Years later I switched the scanner out for a CB, and added a Wilson Sleek cradle booster for the phone. The Sleek worked great with the glass mount antenna, but the CB was only good for monitoring due to the antenna directly behind the cab (as was expected when I installed it in place of the scanner antenna) I recently upgraded the Sleek to a wireless booster, unfortunately I couldn't get enough separation of the interior antenna from the glass mount and therefore oscillation occurred on all bands. According to the WeBoost manual, as long as the booster was improving the signal (and the phone app confirmed it was) it was perfectly safe to run it in that condition. I figured I could improve on performance by mounting antennas in the roof, and it had been something I'd wanted to do for years, it just hadn't been a priority. I already had the antennas and a quick trip to the electronics store scored new NMO mounts. Might have got by with the old ones, but no point in going to the effort only to replace with old cables. A couple hours in the shop later, and we had it done. The phone and UHF antennas are in the roof, and the CB antenna was moved to the left side of the hood where the UHF had been. I should have done it this way from the start, performance was greatly improved. I also recently upgraded the head unit to one with Bluetooth, so we now have the convenience of hands free calling like our newer vehicles.
