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Yoshi:
I have the gutter mount on mine, and a mag mount on the other one, although that will be changing to gutter mount soon when the rangie arrives :D

The mini orbitor has a reasonable enough range for what its made for, i mean its not gonna get a signal from top of the country to bottom of the country but only had a bother with mine when the person who was following accidently switched his onto european instead of uk when he was trying to roll his disco lol

muddyjames:
I bought my cb radio and exuipment from cb4x4. com or the link is here

they were extremely helpful on the phone and highly recomended.

I use a clamp on type mount for the ariel that clamps onto the roof bars of the disco and secures by a hand nut type thing. It is dead easy to take on and off and means I can store the ariel in the car and not somewhere where someones light fingers can get to it!

I folled a mate who had a mag mount and the number of times he got out to re stick it to the roof or back bumper, I thought I cant be bothered with that!

I have a long bendy (think its called sprinegr) type ariel. I did find as it twanged it has caused damage to the paint work on the roof so now put some insulation tape over the end and that has sorted that out.

V8MoneyPit:
Make sure whatever antenna you go for, it's flexible. They tend to get battered on overhanging trees when laning or at p&p sites. The springer type MuddyJames mentions are very forgiving with trees!

The choice of mount depends on how strong the area you mount it to is. If you have a strong mount on a weak piece of bodywork, the latter suffers!

As for head units, I found the 'auto squelch' function useful. Otherwise, I've never had any trouble with any unit I've used and they've all done what I needed them to do.

discowoman:
I have a Kernow 80 channel and a stinger antena for sale - no nount tho..
worked last time I used it - no longer needed as I passed my Foundation exam and am now a licensed amateur

KingWolf:

--- Quote from: BadgersRover on March 26, 2009, 15:02:48 ---only had a bother with mine when the person who was following accidently switched his onto european instead of uk when he was trying to roll his disco lol

--- End quote ---

That would be me then...!!!!!! lol

I'm running a Team ME-4 from Thunderpole, I went with one of there started kits with the mini orbitor aerial. The range was ok for staying in contact with a group whilst laning and at P+P's but I've since changed to a longer aerial as I found that I was unable to keep in contact with a second group whist laning around Thetford due to the reduced range. Where I live it's dead flat so at a guess I would say with the mini aerial I could get around the 5-6 mile radius but with the longer one this has doubled. It's worth mentioning that no matter what set up you choose just make sure it's fitted correctly and you check your SWR.

Mark.

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