They can be drilled and locked to a mirror bracket, but if a thief wants anything, they will get it, and theres nothing you can do about it....lol

I was talking about spell check, its not here for us to use anymore....lol

What we mean kc0iv is the button below the msg. box is gone. You have to cut and paste into the button on the top right....lol

There is alot to know about coaxial cable and its conectors, there is solid core or stranded and single shield braided and double sheild, solid double sheild to alot of stuff, all can make a difference, I don't want to go into great detail because kc0iv will be watching, he be the guru of all .... anyway there is a chart here at my fav site qsl.net, tthis chart shows the cable and the wattage, so now if you use rg-58 wire for a single antenna it can handle 300 - 400 watts, now tthe connectors, them cheap ones can handle 500 or so watts, if you run power then one must use the right connectors that can handle 2000+ watts and nott thhem cheap ones, some connectors can cost up to $10 each so wew wont talk about that, just stick to coaxial cable for now... connectors are a whole world apart and most amatuer radio operators don'tt know that a connector is what connects the coax to the unit and the antenna...

now on this chart it shows that rg-8x or mini 8 its called can handle 875 watts, we are looking at the first row or the 30mhz range, cb is 27 mhz so close enough, as you notice tthe higher the frequency the less power it can handle in the coax, this is alot more info to tetchnical to explain but my friends at beldon havee a pdf file you can read and it explains all about how its made to why and how it performs, like one thing is the signal runs down thee outside of the innerr wire, so some say solid core is better and some say the more strands in the core the bettter, I won't say which is better for signals but for power the morer strands you have the less power loss, IE: welding cable is better to hook up your power inverter than battery cable, less power loss because of the several hundend strands it has..... but for signals hehehehe I won't say.... ask kc0iv maybe he has a opinion on that one...

as for getting out better and your radio is already tweaked well not much else you can do but run a amp for power or get a power mod done on your cb like a 25 watt mod but thats a whole other story their too... so for now check this link for the table chart of cable power, it also shows the db loss per 1oo feet, so check this... ohhh the first number is db loss, not to worry unless you run like 500 feet or more of wire its useless to know... so it looks like "0.8....350 " so that .8 is the db loss and the 350 is watts in the chart..

http://www.qsl.net/yo5ofh/data_sheet...cal%20data.htm

now for the everything you ever wanted to know about coaxial cablee and how and why it works and the making of, beldin wire, which is my wire of choice to use ... they have this pdf file about coax so check itt out , its a pdf file so acrobat is needed to view it..

http://www.belden.com/pdfs/Cable101/Cable101all.pdf


hope this helps some......

Uglymutt, thanks again for the info...ill be doing the reading on it when i take my break tonight/tomorrow.

TKR

I had my Stryker mounted b4 i went to Wilson wich doesnt like to see modified antenna mounts and biggol antenna 'errays' on their trucks. I was Extremely happy w/ a Stryker- It was like night and day! Reception was very clear, i talked 10 miles with a stock 29 and didnt even have the gate open all the way! I think he charged $65 or so and I think it was worth it.