Dude move it twords the dash and angle it in. Then you'll have enough room.

 

I might have to...I'll test fit this weekend.

 

Look at my pics..I have my old Midland in like that, its the same size as a cobra29 And IMHO it looks cooler lol

 

Yeah that MIGHT work. It may be my last resort if I can't mount the palomar out of sight but still in reach.

 

Had some stainless rods from a machine we're rebuilding at work. They're 5/8" thick 11.5" long. They've been machined for their propose in the machine they belong to. Ive been wanting to make some antenna extensions and figured out these would work perfect. All I had to do was drill and tap the holes to a 3/8x24 thread. What do you think??

 

those look good, just be mindful that when you add them in, you are extending your antenna and it will have to be re-tunned and depending on the antenna you have you might not be able to re-tune it without hacking some off the top. 102" wips require a 6" spring or spacer to make it a 1/4 wave (108") and most firesticks or wilson skick antennas can be tuned with or without a 6" spring.

 

Yeah I know I'm going to have to retune. I'm currently running with a 3" spring but I don't like how the antenna flops aground. I think I should be ok with getting it back in tune. If not I'll just cut the spacer down. Good thing I'm in the desert and have a huge empty lot two houses down with plenty of open space to get a good tune.

 

I have ran the 102 whip without a riser/spring for a long time now... no issues at all... 1.1 SWR on the entire band, I get out really well and hear great... there is more to it than length, the material the antenna is made of, the diameter, all these things CAN play a part

 

Put it on and tuned. SWR is at 1.1:1 on all channels

 

My LTD is close to dash and angled to me, TB can fit legs in fine and still operate the cb too. I use a 4' wilson, added on a spring, off the back door. Mount is reenforced inside the door real well and ground lead, gets all the range I need for pack travel and trail talk. The ZJ has a DC19 under the dash, more cab room on the passenger side and it hasnt clipped knees yet.

 

Peep... isn't the hatch made of fiberglass? If so then how is the antenna grounded? What do your SWRs look like? They need to be checked with an external meter, NOT THE ONE BUILT INTO YOUR RADIO.

 

I got one of These at Christmas and it is impressive. They're a bit big for mounting in the Jeep but give good power and cover all the freqs. I haven't sorted my antenna out properly yet so I don't transmit (still got high SWR) but I've heard the USA and Eastern Europe on the 11m freeband freqs already.

There's a smaller version out, but not many details yet apart from This PDF. Which seems to be the V4 in a DIN sized case.

I realise that you'd be going out on a limb to order from Europe but I'm sure there'll be some imports to the USA soon....

 

Very nice. I plan on getting a ssb unit someday. I hear the range you get is crazy.

How is yours setup? Lets figure out your high swr problem.

 

if you want something small and powerful the Magnum 257HP is hard to beat...

solid on SSB, just a little bigger than a Cobra 19, does around 60-100 watts (best to keep it at 80 or less) AM, FM, USB, LSB, does around 25.5-29.9???

 

that is a really really nice radio

love that radio.. only problem i have with the 257 is the LCD screen, you can view it at an angle, you have to be dead on looking at it to see it. sucks if you like watching the meter like me LOL, otherwise there bright and badass. buddy has one with a RFX75 kit installed and its a talker.