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ok. last of my trucks to get upgraded/new install...

it seems that there is a contest of some kind almost every weekend and definitely on 3 day weekends, during contests it is hard to find a rag chew and if you do, some clown will set up right next to your frequency and turn up his amp with his "CQ Contest"....on those weekends 17 is your best bet...

the best single book out there is the ARRL antenna handbook... wire antennas are fun to build and experiment with... and you can make a directional wire beam...it all depends on how much room you have and time you want to put into it...

yep, that one and the "come and take it" sticker next to it, not shown in the photo, get a lot of comments...

I figured the antenna would at least make fourstringburn happy. :)

She also like the performance of the little tarheelHP, but I figured that would look silly on a lifted 3/4 ton truck, so went with a model 100 hp, and since I had mentioned that this truck goes through some areas with brush and low hanging limbs, I wanted to be able to lay it down...

Last month I made a thread about not wanting to spend any money on the old farm truck and installing some old radio equipment in it... Well the wife did not like the footprint of the console I built, she said it was too large... and since I redid her truck recently she really like the 7100 touch...

yep and according to their website it looks like they have at least 1 more testing sessions scheduled for this summer... almost looks like they test bi-monthly... and they operate a repeater that is node connected on 147.150 with a positive offset and a tone of 123.

it is hard to figure a place that did not have folks to test somewhere around... where/what town do you live in? It is likely that folks can be found to help you out with the testing.

you gave him something to think about though.

I was not sold on it when I first heard of it, but was sold on it when I entered the shack and saw what amateur radio made available. That is why I often pass folks on to others once I have determined what their interests might be. Kids today who are into computer use almost before they can talk...

interesting topic... to sell amateur radio effectively, you need to sell yourself a bit...you can't just tell folks how great you think it is and drag them to a test session and tell them to have fun... if you are not willing and don't have the time to elmer... just keep your hobby to yourself...

I used AES quite a bit, with DX Engineering being my second most used. I have not used HRO since they opened a store here in Texas...if you are going to order on line and all ship quickly.... why pay sales tax by ordering from someone who has a store front in your state? We have a decent ham...

Thanks. She liked using the 7100 i have in my go box...so, I put one in her truck... she likes the touch screen feature... and now all she has too do is touch the screen to set the band she wants to work, hit the button on the tuner to auto tune and she is on the air...making things easy for the...

Got the wife an Icom 7100 with an Ameritron controller for her antenna... pulled the console and ran the wiring under it. The body of the radio is mounted on one of the pull down seats in the back of her ford ranger. The antenna is a little tarheel HP. Tunes perfectly from 40...

agreed...every mobile antenna i have ever installed, i either made a choke balun or installed cores on the line...I have used 4 different brands of screwdrivers over the years and made one of my own...if you do not use the core (or some kind of core) on the drive line, as was stated it will act...

I have the dual band model (not the 4 band model) and I find that the crossband feature works well.... to a point...if you are just using it for local stuff...say hiking and using it with an HT for a local repeater it does fine... but if you plan on using it for a linked repeater with a net...

if it is indeed the motor drive that goes through the core...tarheel says to wrap their power lead thru theirs at least 3 times...

sounds like you had fun and congrats on getting the newer hams involved.

if there is room inside between the case and the boards, you can use flat stock available at home improvement stores. Cut one to fit on the inside to strengthen the plastic case. Then either drill and tap it or use nuts and bolts to secure it to a mount made from the same flat stock. Flat stock...