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1911

1911

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I was asked to give a ham radio demo at our church's annual fathers and sons camp-out yesterday, so naturally I took the Cruiser. :D

I had my 2m mobile in the Cruiser, and put up a small 3-element 2m beam antenna on milsurp fiberglass poles in the receiver hitch. Turns out that the beam was totally unnecessary where we were, but since I had it with me, I put it up anyway just for the cool factor.

I also brought my mobile HF radio with me and set up a 20m station on a camp table in front of the Cruiser, using a Buddipole antenna on a tripod on the ground. Made daylight contacts in Arizona, North Dakota, California, and Florida, and after the sun went down eastern Europe, Peru, and a few others. The kids were all more interested in 2m though, and all that wanted to got to talk to other hams in the same county. I'm sure getting to sit in the 40 to talk on 2m had nothing to do with it. :cool:

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Looks like a fun get together and a chance to combine a few hobbies. Hopefully some of the folk will get interested in Ham, especially the young ones.

cheers,
george.
 
TS-480SAT?
 
rusty_tlc said:
Very nice, got any close up pictures of the receiver/pole set-up?
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The 2m one on the truck? I didn't have any close-ups of the fiberglass poles, but all I did was weld a piece of scrap angle iron to piece of scrap square stock, and insert that into the receiver hitch in my 4+ bumper, then I just used two radiator hose clamps to attach the bottom fiberglass pole to the angle iron, and stacked another three poles on top of that one. The military poles come in 4' lengths so the whole thing is 16' tall plus my receiver hitch is more than 2' off the ground and the angle iron is 4' long, so I had the MFJ-1763 mini-beam about 20' off the ground. We had a pretty good wind and I did not guy the fiberglass poles, but they were stiff and worked fine.

Here is an older photo of the Kenwood TM-D710A inside the 40, mounted to the roll cage, but I think you have the same radio or one in the same location? Maybe you were asking about the HF radio and the Buddipole? See below for a closer photo of my Kenwood TS-480SAT.

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BenMara said:
TS-480SAT?
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Yep, good eye!

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Sorry I wasn't specific, I see that "receiver" was a poor choice of words. :o

The description was enough for me to get the idea of how the pole was mounted on the receiver hitch.

I'll have to look for those poles next time I browse through the Mil Surplus place.
 
Tkx i have a TS-480HX as a base station for the moment, its going into the truck very soon
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Ohh TM-D710A with APRS

mm would love to get my Mobile rig set up..
 
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