Selecting a truck antenna should be a carefully made choice that will provide high performance. Make sure the chosen mount will provide adequate support and security of the antenna.
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These are some of the mounting options:
- Permanent Hole Mounts: Drill the roof in the place you prefer, mount the truck antenna and you are done
- Thick Surface Mounts: Similar as the permanent hole mounts but the drilling need to be performed in some required thickness
- Magnetic Mount: This mount is easy to install just place it on the top and you are good to go. But as I mentioned before you need to be careful with the driving speed with these magnetic mounts because there is a chance the truck antenna to be loosed
- The Trunk Lip Mount: these mounts use hidden screws to fix the truck antenna
- Universal Lip Mounts: Clean look no drilling
- Mirror Bracket Mount: the truck antenna is fixed to the tubular shaped metal
- L bracket Mount: Bracket as L shape is used to mount the antenna in the needed place
Select the Right Coil Antenna
The separation of the antenna by the coil is the location where the truck antenna is wound in a coil. By the position of the coil, the truck antenna is grouped into 3 categories.
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Because the optimal length 102’’ of one truck antenna is too long and not practical the manufacturers found a way to reduce the length by wounding the antenna. Although the efficiency of antenna with coil solution is lower than actual not coiled straight antenna but however the coil truck antenna is better than the strait short antenna.
