[Elecraft] Mobile high power

[Phil Hystad]

I ran mobile CW with my Begali Paddle sitting on the middle console of my 2004 Chevy HD2500 4x4 pickup.  I had a Hi-Q antenna on the rear top mounted on the side panel making use of one of the stake holes to feed coax.  Operated like that for about 10 years.  100 watts from an Icom 706 MkIIG.

No real problems with the truck although while operating on the 40-m band key down would light up half the warning display lights on the dash.  This mostly only happened on the 40-m band though a few times I had seen it on 20-m too.

My 2018 Toyota RAV4/Hybrid has a warranty statement saying “Do not operate mobile based radio transmission equipment” and that this could (not would but could) violate the warranty.  However, I got rid of the pickup truck mainly as I lost interest of mobile operating in favor of portable operating (not in the vehicle) and in my opinion, big trucks were made for mobile ops (all that steel).  My longest CW contact, half way around the world, was via mobile on that pickup truck on I-5 while traveling thru the state of Oregon.

73, phil K7PEH

> On May 6, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> Right. But it's the electromagnetically underachieving cars a foot away from you, on four sides, that might suffer. 
> 
> Yet another challenge in the era of technology that doesn't gracefully degrade.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 6, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Bert Craig <wa2si at arrl.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I run approx. 200 watts from my mobile. It's been trouble free over the last four or five years. To the best of my knowledge, no adverse effects on other vehicles either. I do use LMR-240uf throughout and employ numerous snap-on ferrites as well as a full toroidal RF choke between the output of the amp and the antenna. Also, all units are grounded directly to the vehicle chassis and bonded to each other. So far, so good.
>> 
>> Vy 73 de Bert
>> WA2SI
> 
> 
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