{"id":418,"date":"2012-03-17T17:09:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-03-17T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:09:35","slug":"diy-ham-radio-antenna-mount-for-toyota-tacoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/diy-ham-radio-antenna-mount-for-toyota-tacoma\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY ham radio antenna mount for Toyota Tacoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are pictures of my\u00a0DIY ham radio Tarheel antenna mount for a 2004 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.<\/h1>\n

I built this from steel bar purchased at Home Depot. The bolts are stainless steel one quarter twenty. I did not do a good job of painting it. Ideally it would have been made from stainless steel, but that is a bit harder to find. I have recently discovered\u00a0http:\/\/www.metalsupermarkets.com\/<\/a>. They are an amazing chain of stores that sell all kinds of metal in small quantities for home inventors.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Notice the bare unpainted metal. I kept all the contact surfaces free of paint so there would be an electrical ground to the car body, from the antenna.<\/p>\n

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Here are the holes I drilled in my Tacoma pickup. I made a dummy out of cardboard to get the measurements right before I started cutting metal. When this antenna was mounted, I had scraped off all the paint where the antenna was mounted on the truck for electrical ground. I have since removed the mount and repainted the truck. No holes show from the outside of the truck.<\/p>\n

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If I remount this in the future, I will use a better paint. I hurried the paint job, and it peeled as you can see in the photos. I took my Tarheel antenna off because I got bored with ham radio. I sold all my ham gear and put the money toward my new hobby: DSLR cinematography.<\/p>\n

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These are pictures of my\u00a0DIY ham radio Tarheel antenna mount for a 2004 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. I built this from steel bar purchased at Home Depot. The bolts are stainless steel one quarter twenty. I did not do a good job of painting it. Ideally it would have been made from stainless steel, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}