Hi, all.

I need to tap into the wisdom of the group here concerning mobile antenna 
mounts.

To set the background, the XYL and I have  leased a Subaru Forester for 
about the last 3 years, and I have been using a magnount antenna mount for 
the Diamond 770 dual-band antenna that I have used for years with our family 
vehicles.  I bought this particular  magmount about 2 years ago, to replace 
one that had been failing or at least questionable for quite some time.  We 
put the magmount in the center of the roof of the car, and try to thread the 
feedline as carefully as possible into the back door of the vehicle, where 
it then goes to a TMV71A underneath the front drivers seat.

This set-up has actually worked surprisingly well, but I'm now  having a 
problem with the coax feed line to the current magmount.  I have noticed 
several breaks along the feed line, one or two of which could have been 
caused by inadvertently closing the back vehicle door on the coax feed line. 
Again, I had thought we were avoiding this problem, but maybe not.  Also, 
one or two of the breaks seem to be caused by the outside jacket of the feed 
line becoming very brittle and actually splitting.

So, I'm now thinking of other possible ways to mount my mobile antenna. 
Things, of course, are complicated in that we can't drill holes in the 
leased vehicle.

One option I had thought of is a trunk mount, but I'm having trouble 
envisioning how such a mount would work when you open up the trunk for 
storing groceries and other things.  Also, I can't imagine that the antenna 
on a trunk mount would work very well anyway, since it is so much lower than 
the roof of the vehicle.

Has anyone had experience with trunk mounts?

If I stick to a magmount, does anyone have a magical formula for threading 
the feed line from the outside of the vehicle into the car so as to avoid 
problems with it getting caught in the door

?Is there a better-quality  magmount out there that has stronger feed line 
that might not be as susceptible  to breaking or splitting?

Obviously, I've got lots of questions here, so any help would be 
appreciated.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ