My CB radio installation

[Boston Wrangler]

Here are a few pictures of my CB radio installation. The radio is a new Uniden PC 68 Elite that I had tuned up by the place that I bought it from, 1StopElectronics. I mounted it in place of the rear seat cupholder. I removed the cupholder from the center console, cut a piece of lumber to fit, screwed the piece of lumber on the sides, then bolted the radio bracket to the back portion of the piece of wood.

The antenna mount is an aircraft aluminum mount made for 1-1/8" diameter Mack truck mirrors. The Yakima rack bars on my Subaru are slightly larger than 1-1/8" diameter with their plasticky coating. You may notice that the mount isn't physically grounded to any metal on the car. My SWR readings are just about 1.5 across the board, so somehow the mount is grounding capacitively to the car/roof rack. I won't complain.

The antenna is a 4' Wilson Flex, the skinny 1/4" diameter fiberglass one, with an adjustable tuning tip.