02-23-2018, 08:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: New Madison, Ohio
Posts: 21,339
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Re: Anyone running CB's in their truck these days?
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Originally Posted by jeffahart
I always liked a whip. I've tried to find the military style 'S' clips to hold an antenna whip down. You would clip upper clip in the bush so if antenna gets caught on a branch it pulls off and breaks away. In city(MOUT) you clip under so antenna cannot accidentally come loose and catch a power line. I always thought that was clever. You would get a serious reprimand in the bush with using an under clip(Potential to break the whip) or under mount on highway(potential for catching a power line). If you broke a whip in the bush you had some splainning to do!! Always looked for a civilian equivalent but never found one. Here's a pic below.
I stayed clear of this thread because I knew it would make me want a vintage CB, yet here I am... I want! 
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23 Channel CB's which are period correct for our trucks .. are cheap to purchase unless you go after the high end radios ...
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