Re: CB Radio
From what I hear, there seems to be a lot of trade in cats. Must be purebred at the prices being quoted...
The transition between the attachment on the inside of the glass and the antenna on the outside is very inefficient. It's not that window antennas are 'bad', its just that they have a big loss built into them. On a fiberglass RV, you have no 'ground plane', so no antenna will work really well unless there is a ground plane built into the antenna. Usually rods sticking out around the base.
Fortunately, my rig came from the factory with a CB antenna. I use a Cobra unit with the radio built into the microphone. Not really top notch, but good enough for that antenna. Plus it has a scanner (to find channels in use) and the weather channels. I've got a really good CB from when I was driving my pickup cross country (also had a bearcat scanner, a Radio Shack scanner and a ham rig), but considering how little on the air in the CB band is worthwhile, it has not been worth my while to find it, much less install it.