[Review&QnA] Tram NMO Mirror Mount Kit with 17' Coaxial Cable

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	[Review&QnA] Tram NMO Mirror Mount Kit with 17' Coaxial Cable GotoProduct About this item Stainless Steel Mirror Mount & Bolts Chrome-plated Brass Nmo Gold-plated Contact Pin Rg58a/u Premium Cable, 95% Tinned Copper Shield & Tinned Copper-stranded Center Conductor Uhf Male Pl-259 Connector With Strain Relief Installed
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★★★★★ Well made, works as expected. Made in Taiwan, which is next best to Made in USA Verified Purchase Solidly constructed, perfectly functional, good price. That is enough for a 4 star rating. The extra star is for the country of origin. Of course I'd much rather buy a domestically-made part all else being equal. But failing that, I support Taiwan, one of the few functioning democracies in the East-- cultured, educated, industrious and (for now) an ally of the USA.   ★★★★★ I will be ordering more. Did it have a gasket? Verified Purchase well built. it appears that it comes with stainless mounting hardware. I opened up the base and looked inside. Looked like decent soldering...much better than I could have done myself. I've had it mounted for a couple of weeks. I am not sure that it had a gasket/o-ring. I am pretty careless opening up packages and may have lost the o-ring though and will write that off as my attention to detail... or lack there of.   ★★★★★ Perfect for roof rack Verified Purchase I have this mount on top of a roof basket on a '97 Toyota Land Cruiser, and it has worked perfectly. The tubes of the rack are about 1" and it grabs perfectly, no issues.   ★★★★★ Works on RV ladder. Verified Purchase Mounted nicely on the RV ladder.   ★★★★★ and they work great for that Verified Purchase designed for mounting an antenna on a vehicle mirror, but I've used these a couple times on ATVs to mount to the cargo rack, and they work great for that. Good product for either use.   ★★★★★ Looks to be a solid product. Verified Purchase What was needed, may have to extend the bolts to make it fit!   ★★★★★ Sturdy product. Verified Purchase Sturdy product. Worked as expected. I would buy it again. Thanks   ★★★★★ Five Stars Verified Purchase Works like it should..thanks   ★★★★★ Tram mirror mount Verified Purchase Another quality tram product.   ★★★★★ Five Stars Verified Purchase worked great coax has cracked 6 months later :/ rerunning new coax this weekend in rg8x   See more reviews
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Question: Does this convert pl259 antenna mount to nmo mount? Answer: The nmo is how the anntenna attaches to the outside end. The pl 259 is the end that attaches to the radio connection. The picture appears to be pre-wired to annenna nmo and does not have a pl 259 connection to the bottom of the mount. You can purchase another style that has no cable and only has nmo on top and pl256 bottom of anntenna bracket   Question: If mounting to a painted surface, will this mount require a wire to ground to the vehicle body? Answer: As a rule of thumb to mounting this bracket , it should be grounded for better performance. Sometimes the screws that you mount it with is a good ground. For a better performance for the antenna, Yes, I would put a ground wire on it.Try it without the ground wire first,Just make sure your swr is ok before talking on the radio.   Question: Does this need to be mounted to bare metal to get proper ground? Answer: Yes it need to be mounted to bare metal for a proper ground. If not possible to mount it to bare metal you will have to run a good ground to it.   Question: Is there a way to get replacement mount studs for the nmo? The studus im looking for screw into the bottom of the nmo. Answer: I'm not sure what you talking about, but, they're are several types on NMO on the Internet. Keep looking on Amazon and I think you will find one that will fit you need. Normally, that is what I do. Amazon is a great help on selling a great assortment of parts. I ordered my as a mirror mount and it serves my need.   Question: Anybody know what adaptor i would need to attach the cable to the Baofeng handheld radio? Thank you Answer: I use the ( VCE 2 Pack SMA Female to UHF Female SO-239 Coax Adapter ), you get 2 for $10.00, that's 1 spare and screws onto my 82 hp radio. Works great with my 72 mag mount antenna.   Question: Does the browning br-180 amateur dual-band mobile antenna fit onto this mount? thank you. Answer: If your antenna is an NMO mount and the BR-180 is an NMO mount then yes it would work.   Question: Is the nmo a standard size? looking to rugged radio 1/2 antenna Answer: Yes, NMO type is the most popular mount. You need an antenna with NMO mount to fit this item.   Question: what is minimum diameter mirror this can be mounted to? Answer: I would say apps 1/2", but I mounted mine on my roof rack and it was bigger.   Question: Can the clamping plate be turned 90° for mounting to a vertical post? Answer: Yes, it can be turned so the groove is either horizontal or vertical, or removed entirely so the mount can be used as a bolt-in "L" bracket too.   Question: How many watts can this mount and coax handle? Answer: It depends on an operating frequency. Basically RG58A/U can handle a kilowatt on HF, into a matched load. If you run SSB-CW-PSK31, you should be in good shape unless you're transmitting into a real mismatch. For RTTY, you'd better go for a thicker cable.   See more questions