[Elecraft] KPA500 mobile?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

As Phil knows, it is commonly used on ships in the US Navy for the same reason. Many US Navy ships have an on-board cellular system but it's useless without a way to get RF into all the compartments and passageways through steel plate! 

73, Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Phil Kane
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:25 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 mobile?

On 4/15/2017 7:43 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can’t remember anything of the details of how this 
> was done but I suspect wide-band amplifiers and wires and top-side 
> wide-band antennas.

Leaky coax (trade name == Radiax).  It's many-decades-old technology.

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

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