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Since I have moved into a car I won't be installing lots of stuff but I had to put my O3 XTL5000 High Power VHF in. Here are the pics.

View From Driver Side


O3 Head Mounted


Passenger View


Speaker Bolted under passenger Dash


Engine Compartment


Fuse Holder


Wireloom Routing


Firewall Pass Through


Open Trunk View 1


Open Trunk View 2


Radio Drawer Mounted Underneath Top Shelf


Trunk Lip Antenna


View of Radio Mounted with Back Seats Down


Thanks for Looking.

Jason

freakin sweet!

Dang thats a very classy install!!!

Looks great,
nice clean install

Wow...nice!

Great Install.... I love your work it is very clean and perfect the only thing i would change is the antenna to a Black antenna so it kinda blends in.. But other then that nice car and great install good luck...

E911EMT wrote:Great Install.... I love your work it is very clean and perfect the only thing i would change is the antenna to a Black antenna so it kinda blends in.. But other then that nice car and great install good luck...

If you send me a black 1/4 wave that doesn't have the coating flake off over time I'll put it on . On a side note I re-routed the antenna cable under the "carpet" padding of the trunk lid and through the exisiting factory wireloom you see on the left side of the trunk lid when open. Looks much better that way.

Jason

KB9KST wrote:

E911EMT wrote:Great Install.... I love your work it is very clean and perfect the only thing i would change is the antenna to a Black antenna so it kinda blends in.. But other then that nice car and great install good luck...

If you send me a black 1/4 wave that doesn't have the coating flake off over time I'll put it on . On a side note I re-routed the antenna cable under the "carpet" padding of the trunk lid and through the exisiting factory wireloom you see on the left side of the trunk lid when open. Looks much better that way.

Jason

RadiallLarsen NMOWBQB wideband VHF whip. Antenna is black chrome... I have them on most of our apparatus, and they don't flake, despite getting abused routinely. They're also excellent from about 145-165 in terms of SWR.

BTW, trunk lids are cheap... that lip mount is going to damage the paint anyway. Warm up the drill and the hole saw.

tvsjr wrote:RadiallLarsen NMOWBQB wideband VHF whip. Antenna is black chrome... I have them on most of our apparatus, and they don't flake, despite getting abused routinely. They're also excellent from about 145-165 in terms of SWR.

+1. Had several of these on the truck for years, even on the playa, no chips, no discoloration, a wipe down and they're good as new.

Any of the black "Kulrod" RadiallLarsen antennas are done the same way, in case a 5/8 wave strikes your fancy.

tvsjr wrote:Any of the black "Kulrod" RadiallLarsen antennas are done the same way, in case a 5/8 wave strikes your fancy.

Larsen Kulrod whips will NOT stand up to a parking garage. I learned this not too long ago with a brand-new lowband baseload. *swears quietly*

motorola_otaku wrote:Larsen Kulrod whips will NOT stand up to a parking garage. I learned this not too long ago with a brand-new lowband baseload. *swears quietly*

That's why I don't drive into parking garages anymore

Does the O3 support siren/PA functions without the DEK?

I'm looking into this type of arrangement for the new car in the spring.

Nothing in the programming supports siren functions via the control head. On a side note I drilled two holes in the trunk lid. One for the vhf radio and the other for sprint wireless internet card. I'm waiting on getting the O3 back from repair.

Jason

KB9KST,

Could you please re-upload pics? Want look at your setup again :)

Not sure I have the old pics anymore. What are you looking for in particular?

Jason

Found your pics at my PC. Can upload if do you mind.