Captain Skip
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- Skip
- Joined
- Oct 13, 2020
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- Location
- New Hampshire
- Vehicle(s)
- 2020 Wrangler JL Sport S
- Occupation
- Happily retired
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I just bought a CoolTech antenna mount that uses one of the existing side bolts on the cowl. Mounted it yesterday and checked with my multimeter. There is continuity between the mount and the ground points on the JL so that's a good thing. I was thinking about adding ground straps to bond the hood to the ground also to improve the ground plane effect of the antenna. But, the hood is aluminum and I'm not sure if I'm going to cause galvanic corrosion by adding a ground strap. I read the following bulletin from Ford regarding their aluminum pickup trucks. http://www.k0bg.com/images/antenna/Q-222R1.pdf and before I go drilling or attaching anything I wanted to check with any of you who have added Ham, GMRS or CB antennas to your JL on a front mount. Did you bond the hood or is there enough contact with just the hinges? I didn't want to scrape any paint off the hood to see if there was continuity yet.
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