[Elecraft] KPA500 mobile?

[Walter Underwood]

Easy to try. I live a half mile from the main Google self-driving car site. We see them every day. I can’t offer 220V service, but bring your KP500 over and we can wait for a Waymo car to get in range.

Actually, need to wait until I get the HF antenna back up. The walnut tree that held up one end died (sad times), so I’m working on the mast for an inverted vee along the fence line. Unless you want to test with a Hustler super resonator. Go for it.

wunder
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> On Apr 14, 2017, at 6:20 PM, Mike Flowers <mike.flowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wonder what would happen if a mobile KW station keyed up beside one of these experimental driverless cars?
> 
> And I wonder how well the electronics in these cars are protected from RFI?
> 
> -- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!"
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I had a 100W HF mobile in a Ford Ranger in early 2001.  Transmitting would disable the cruise control if it was on.  I gave the truck to #1 grandson when I bought a 2003 Silverado [he promptly rolled the Ranger [:-(( ].
>> 
>> The computer that operated the driver's seat exceeded the capacity/speed of the computer that got us to the moon by an order of magnitude or more and it was one of a dozen or so in the truck. I put a 25 watt UHF FM rig in it, and the first time I transmitted, the seat computer lost its mind and pinned me to the steering wheel.  $380 later, that was fixed and I resorted to an HT in the truck.
>> 
>> I wouldn't put 500 watts in today's vehicles.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
>> Sparks NV USA
>> Washoe County DM09dn
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/14/2017 11:58 AM, brian wrote:
>>> In the old days, cars didn't have computers.  Getting away with running a KW worked. Today may be different.
>>> 
>>> Nobody seems to be concerned about crashing/killing the computer(s) running the whole car.  Could lead to a really dangerous situation.
>>> 
>>> Don't know what the replacement cost for the motherboard/peripherials of a car computer system is.  My guess: big bucks.
>>> 
>>> What current experience is there out there?
>>> 
>>> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 4/14/2017 16:45 PM, Bert Craig wrote:
>>>> Yaesu FT-891 w/
>>>> HLA 305V @ approx. 200 W.
>>>> http://www.rmitaly.com/index.php/en/news/92-news/19487-arrl-review-rm-italy-hla-305v-plus 
>>>> Vy 73 de Bert
>>>> WA2SI
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my android device.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
>>>> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>>>> Sent: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:00
>>>> Subject: [Elecraft] KPA500 mobile?
>>>> 
>>>> Big fan of mobile ham radio here...Have always run 100w.
>>>> 
>>>> Would like to do more. (500w-1000w)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone here ever run a KPA500 mobile? (if so, how? Big inverters to
>>>> generate 15a @ 115ac?)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Related question...if you haven't run a KPA500 mobile, what amp HAVE you run
>>>> mobile?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mike VE9AA...VE9AA/m
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>>>> 
>>>> Keswick Ridge, NB
>>>> 
>>>> 
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