Mods: Series CB Antenna Installa-
I’m sure many of you enjoy “the lanes”. A day out greenlining with
a few other LRs is a truly great way to spend a summer (or winter!)
day, all the fun of driving in convoy together, the reassurance of
having help close by, all combined with LAND ROVERS!
But there is one important tool, possibly very close to no.1 in the
top 10 “must have’s” for greenlining: a CB radio! It’s always incred-
ibly handy to just pick up a mic and tell the person in front they’re
fine to go, or to give/receive instructions when being towed… Al-
though really we all know their best use is for banter and general
chatting whilst driving, not to mention pointing out various wildlife
and that tree that everybody is going to hit!
But when I started to install mine in my Series 3 SWB, I came
across a problem: “Where should I put the antenna?” This may
sound like a stupid and obvious question, but looking at my criteria
it’s not so easy. I have a canvas and a hard top, which I change
between, so I could not really mount it on the roof (although since
I’ve heard some fancy stuff about using magnets “through the canvas”!). Some of the lanes we do are
rather “scratchy”, meaning that anything attached to the sides of the truck is likely to get damaged if not
torn off….so that only really leaves the front and the back. Where on here could I mount the antenna
and have it still look half decent?! The bumper is a little too low to mount the antenna straight on, while
at the rear it’s very hard to put anything on that isn’t going to be blocked and constantly (and annoyingly!)
tap against the canvas or the hard top….so I designed the mount below and hope that it interests you.
I decided that the bumper mounting points along with their military towing points looked like a good
base point to fit my antenna, also giving a good ground due to being bolted to the chassis/body, although
I’d already decided that this was too low.
So I decided to make some form of “post” to mount the antenna to, starting with a piece of ¼” steel
plate I “drew around” one of the towing rings. This then gives me the same spacing and a neat profile
to make my base plate. It also means that this is practically hidden when mounted , but I also added a
little “lip” for the base of the tube to sit in, as shown in the photo.
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