RAM POD1 Floor Mount 1" Socket (RAM-B-316-1U)

Easily fitted and shaped to gain best position.

The product arrived the following day...amazing service. It's sturdy & east to install.

If you are looking for a seatrail bolt mounted gooseneck mount, it will be hard to find a better one. Overall the materials and fittings are of very high quality and well designed. The gooseneck is made from a 1/2" thick aluminium rod which you need to bend to the shape you need prior to installation. It is very stiff and you will need a vice or similar to help bend it to the right shape. To minimise vibration they recommend you bend it to some sort of "Z" shape. For these mounts it is incredibly important to have a gooseneck that is as stiff as possible due the vibration that will be transferred to the head. You will never be able to bend this gooseneck it while installed so there will be a few iterations of taking it off, bending it bit more & reinstalling until it is just right. Once at the right shape you should not need to change it anymore and you will benefit from the stiffness of the rod. I shaped my rod so that it leans against the car's centre console to further reduce any vibration. The result is that the head is as stable as if I drilled a short mounting bracket straight into the centre console. A black plastic "accordian" tube covers the rod. The foot is made from a 5mm thick piece of aluminum and uses a bolt and nut to clamp onto the alumnimum rid tightly. The foot is definitely strong enough and I have mine extended as far forward as possible from the seatrail bolt. With this model you need buy a separate head to fit in the socket at the top of gooseneck. There are other models that come prepackaged with some of the more common heads. The socket has good sized handle allowing you easily use your hands to screw the socket down so that it tightly clamps on the ball head. Like the foot, a bolt and nut is used to tightly clamp the socket to the aluminium rod, however you can still rotate the socket when loose so that you can position the handle in the right position for you. I bought this mount for my mobile amateur radio rig. It is used mount the remote head of my ICOM 7100 radio. I was originally tempted to buy one of the cheaper brands from overseas on ebay but the price that JA sells it locally here made that price difference so little it was an easy decision to go for the high quality Ram Mount brand. Now that I've actually tried it for a while in my car with the radio I would be disappointed with anything less, no matter how cheap it might be.