Well, wet to the caravan and camping show today and found a good deal on a CB radio so came home with a GME TX3440 and antenna much to the disgust of the Icom Rep. Spent a bit of time in the afternoon and got all the hardware installed. and will finish it off tomorrow.
Decided to take some pics with my Nikon D40 digital SLR that i picked up during the wwek off Ebay.
First, I mounted the antenna on the Ironman bull bar, you can see by the time I fgto around to taking photos, it was getting late..
Then I took the radio out. Pulled off the 3 Air con knobs, and removed the screw behind the centre one:
You need to unclip the two swithes from the front panel and you can get to the four 10mm bolts that hold the Radio in and remove it:
Then I cut an old flouro light housing I had lying around and mucked about to make a microphone mount Here is what I ended up with:
Note I bolted this onto the exisiting bracket bolts and had to drill a clearance hole for a metal locatng tag.
(And I splashed a bit of paint on it too!)
The GME radio has a 2 part plastic mike mount, and I ended up drilling a couple of more holes in it to hold it onto the bracket (after I drilled an unnecessary hole:
So this is what the finished mount looked like:
And the finished article looks pretty good from the drivers seat:
More to follow....