[Elecraft] KPA500 mobile?

[Phil Kane]

On 4/14/2017 1:13 PM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:

> The assumption has always been that the driver and passengers are riding
> inside a Faraday Cage and therefore are safe from RF radiated by an HF
> antenna, regardless of where located and regardless of power level. 

When I take my 2011 Ford Focus through the car wash, I put the mag-mount
VHF antenna inside the car but it is still connected to the radio.  I
have no problem picking up the usual 2- and 3/4- meter repeaters that
way.  So much for the "Faraday Cage".  :)

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon