Tim in Scotland wrote:

Some of the South African and Aussie members have mounted the antenna on a folding mount on the trailing edge of the bonnet leading the cable through one of the factory grommeted holes in the firewall back to the cabin.


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Chicken Drumstick wrote:

In the UK we are mostly limited to CB radios which means the antenna are usually long and bendy. As long rigid ones would be prone to damage.

Something like this:

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They move about a lot, esp if you catch low hanging branches and the like.


In other parts of the world you can use radios with different frequencies and allow for more compact antennas.

For anything else you'd need a HAM radio licence. But again you'd need to get everyone in your group to pay, take and pass the HAM radio test.

Strewth I forgot the UK is still a bit 🚫 when it comes to transmission gear.. yet another pommie bar steward down under

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RLD wrote:

yes they fit as long as you tighten them up properly

RadioDiscovery wrote:

I have ordered a couple of bonnet mounts similar to the posting from "zilch". I need to mount multiple aerials for VHF/UHF (and occasionally HF). The magmounts that worked fine on my Discovery 1, Discovery 2 and Discovery 4 are now of no use except maybe on my wife's car .