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Annihilator said:
I don’t think that will work, magnet needs to be on steel, plus you need to have the antenna on something so when you transmit it will reflect the signal, like on a trunk lid, roof and such. Most mag mount antennas transmit from the base of it, if you want to mount like you were originally stated, you need to forget the mag mount and get a top feed antenna with the proper type base.
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Well steel is not an option so what I’ve now ordered is (2) 6X6 inch aluminum plates that I’ll be attaching to the Thule bar and my plan was use extreme strength double sided tape to mount the antennas to the plates.
“now with ground wires”

What your saying is between the aluminum plates, ground wires and aluminum roof panel there will be no reflective properties for the in/out signal?
 
Keystone19250 said:
Well steel is not an option so what I’ve now ordered is (2) 6X6 inch aluminum plates that I’ll be attaching to the Thule bar and my plan was use extreme strength double sided tape to mount the antennas to the plates.
“now with ground wires”

What you’re saying is between the aluminum plates, ground wires and aluminum roof panel there will be no reflective properties for the in/out signal?
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Again, you can’t use ground wires on the antenna, it has to be placed on steel, like a trunk lid or roof, so it will ground right, the magnet mount has to be attached, no ground wires, it doesn’t work like that. Like I said before, get top fed antenna and then you can use the right mount, usually a L-shaped mount that you can attach to what you want, look how a truck driver has his antenna attached to his truck, usually a mirror mount. Again you can’t use ground wires for the ground, this isn’t like hooking up a ground for power.
 
Got this one on mine, been working good for a long time now. got it at a truck stop. kinda rusted up a bit looks like. first i have looked close at it in a while.
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Annihilator said:
Again, you can’t use ground wires on the antenna, it has to be placed on steel, like a trunk lid or roof, so it will ground right, the magnet mount has to be attached, no ground wires, it doesn’t work like that. Like I said before, get top fed antenna and then you can use the right mount, usually a L-shaped mount that you can attach to what you want, look how a truck driver has his antenna attached to his truck, usually a mirror mount. Again you can’t use ground wires for the ground, this isn’t like hooking up a ground for power.
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Well with an aluminum bodied truck I don’t have the option of putting the magnet mount just anywhere.
 
Mag mounts don’t work on aluminum bodied vehicles, also make sure the antenna you get covers the frequency of your radio, the shop should help you on that, any antenna won’t work, antennas are tuned for certain frequencies, just an FYI
 
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