I plan to install two radios in my pickup and both have remote face-plates. One is ham and the other GMRS. Since I don't want to modify the dash or really alter the interior too much , I'm thinking of putting the base radio under the seat and then have some mount solution for the remote face plate accessible and easy to read / access from driver seat. I'm looking around for solutions that a remote face-plate mounts to. Any web sites to surf around for good ideas? Or please post pics with details of how you mounted your remote face-plate. Details on how the remote face-plate attaches to what would be helpful and then what worked beyond that. I've not dealt with remote face-plates before, so I'm looking around for ideas. My pickup is a GM 2500 HD. I have a square plate that mounts down near the transmission tunnel thats part of some police console mount I only have part of, but it is a flat surface, and I'm thinking of some way to use this to mount to in some fashion, but in the end utility out-weighs other issues....and if I can't see the radio head or access it easy the idea becomes flawed at some level. I'll post pic of this plate I'm referring to ...in a bit. I don't want anything that mounts to the windshield, like many I"m looking for a sturdy solution that is fixed and not subject to vibration or too much flex or movement. Ideas and pics are good, I'm surfing around looking to see what I can find....
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pic showing this plate I referred to above...thats a flat surface with slots and so forth you can mount things too. is there just to the right of the transfer case lever and roughly in front of the middle seat, right directly below the center of the dash...for reference. Would be cool if I could find some type of small box or something where the remote face plate faced up and I could have a simple functional mount or even some simple mount that would "cradle" the face plate and I could simply angle the face plate in the orientation facing the driver I think ICOM might have something like that, even though I 'm sure its $$. the ham radio is a ICOM IC-2730A, the GMRS radio is a Wouxun KG-1000G Plus
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I may have answered 1/2 of my question in part...
I corrected the link....
** there are some different options here for the icom unit, which offhand I don't fully follow. There is a mount for the main body of the radio which is pretty obvious, then there are some mounts or mount for the remote face-plate (the part that attaches to the face-plate itself, where you intend to remote mount the face-plate separate from the body. I'm not clear what bracket then attaches from the face plate to a solid object. So anyway...check out the info if you have similar radio or intend to buy. I've been looking around on the icom site and on DX Engineering | Ham Radio Equipment & Supplies - https://www.dxengineering.com/ dx engineering. Would be great if there were some better pics on the icom web site and others to at least help me track what bracket does what, or what combination of parts is needed to do x. I though the separation kits might apply , but I'm not certain of that as of now.
I corrected the link....
** there are some different options here for the icom unit, which offhand I don't fully follow. There is a mount for the main body of the radio which is pretty obvious, then there are some mounts or mount for the remote face-plate (the part that attaches to the face-plate itself, where you intend to remote mount the face-plate separate from the body. I'm not clear what bracket then attaches from the face plate to a solid object. So anyway...check out the info if you have similar radio or intend to buy. I've been looking around on the icom site and on DX Engineering | Ham Radio Equipment & Supplies - https://www.dxengineering.com/ dx engineering. Would be great if there were some better pics on the icom web site and others to at least help me track what bracket does what, or what combination of parts is needed to do x. I though the separation kits might apply , but I'm not certain of that as of now.
RMK-2 | Products | Icom Inc.
Several types of separetion kit for mobile transcever are available. Please select separetion kit that is compatible with your radio.
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RMK-2 | Products | Icom Inc.
Several types of separetion kit for mobile transcever are available. Please select separetion kit that is compatible with your radio.
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I think a lot of amateur radio folks use Lido mounts. I don't have anything installed but I've seen Lido mentioned a lot on videos or reviews. Hope that helps.I may have answered 1/2 of my question in part...
I corrected the link....
** there are some different options here for the icom unit, which offhand I don't fully follow. There is a mount for the main body of the radio which is pretty obvious, then there are some mounts or mount for the remote face-plate (the part that attaches to the face-plate itself, where you intend to remote mount the face-plate separate from the body. I'm not clear what bracket then attaches from the face plate to a solid object. So anyway...check out the info if you have similar radio or intend to buy. I've been looking around on the icom site and on DX Engineering | Ham Radio Equipment & Supplies - https://www.dxengineering.com/ dx engineering. Would be great if there were some better pics on the icom web site and others to at least help me track what bracket does what, or what combination of parts is needed to do x. I though the separation kits might apply , but I'm not certain of that as of now.
RMK-2 | Products | Icom Inc.
Several types of separetion kit for mobile transcever are available. Please select separetion kit that is compatible with your radio.
