In article ,
Joe Bramblett, KD5NRH wrote:

Be careful hanging stuff from the flimsy liner in most vehicles. If
you can find a roof brace to bolt to, you ought to be able to get it
pretty secure, but convenience might be limited. Best would be to use
something with a remote mountable faceplate, put the rig wherever you
have room for it, and mount the faceplate somewhere easier to see
without major gyrations.

Agreed, on all points.

I had to face a similar problem when mounting a dualbander in a Ford
Aerostar... no terribly good place. A remote-mount faceplate system
(Kenwood TM-G707A) turned out to be an excellent solution. The
faceplate itself is so light that its bracket can be screwed to the
plastic roof-liner with no problems - it hasn't vibrated loose or torn
out in two years.

The radio itself is mounted to the side-wall, behind the driver's
seat. I screwed the mounting bracket to four 1" metal standoffs,
held the bracket and standoffs against the side-wall, market the
positions where the standoffs touched, and used a Dremel grinder to
remove the paint at (and around) these spots. A healthy dab of
metal-loaded epoxy on each of these spots, another dab on the end of
each standoff (the metal being roughened with sandpaper first), some
duct tape to hold the bracket in place while the epoxy cured, and I
had a _very_ robust mount for the rig. A hole drilled in the frame
nearby provided an excellent spot for attaching a short grounding wire
(braid, really) from the bracket.

The microphone cord by itself isn't long enough to reach the rig, but
a 6' Ethernet cable and an RJ-45 coupler fixed that easily enough.

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