October 22nd, 2007
stereo installation
To be installed in the Q45: Alpine CDE-9582 (with iPod support). To be basically just set in place: IC-2100H 2m (VHF) Amateur Transceiver.
Obstacle: Premium Sound. Start the tour..
Archive for the ‘ham’ Category
March 11th, 2005
20 meter vehicular mobile
While visiting Monterey I hung the control cable of the radio out the window.. sat in the shade of the car.. and managed to have a good QSO with a Minnesota station!
February 28th, 2005
grounding
February 28th, 2005
20m antenna
so, i was told (thanks KT6LN!) that just because an antenna can tune with an autotuner, does NOT mean it is radiating. I kind of suspected this.. of course a dummy load can tune up.. Anyways, armed with that knowledge, I used a coathanger as a test instead of cutting up my radiating element. Much better! Better than 1.5:1 across the band with no tuner. Then, I cut the wire, and now i am waiting for the rain to let up so I can try tuning it again. Looks like the bandwidth is such that I can have ssb OR cw but not both.
Click here..February 22nd, 2005
2m antenna mounted in truck
Ben has his new hustler antenna mounted in the truck .. just needs tuning. 
(clicky)
Also: I’ve added photo links to many of the ‘old’ articles. You might want to check them out.
February 16th, 2005
ic-706mkiig
got the icom ic-706mkiig, hf/ 6m / 2m / 440 xcvr.. the remote cable’s not quite long enough to go from the trunk to the front of the car. actually haven’t used it in the car yet, just on the table.. definitely a nice rig.
Downside: has two ant jacks, “HF/50″ and “VHF/UHF”. Plugging in my triband 50/Vhf/uhf antenna will be an issue..
