[Elecraft] Mobile high power

[Ken Winterling]

I believe all of the vehicles I've owned have had a statement in their
manuals about transmitters.  Despite that, vehicles from many
manufacturers, domestic and foreign, are used in services that use
transmitters such as police, fire, ambulance, taxi, etc.  Some services use
multiple radios in vehicles covering everything frequencies from HF through
900mHz (and above?) and varying power levels.  I have yet to see one of
those vehicles have any RF-related problems affecting vehicle electronics.

If commercial radio installation companies can install transmitters in all
of these vehicles without harm it seems to me that hams can do it using
similar installation procedures.  They are carfeul as to where power is
sourced and fused as well as to how power, control, and antenna wires are
routed in the vehicle.  None of my radio installations since 1970 have ever
caused a problem in any vehicle I owned.

Ken
WA2LBI





On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:51 PM Steve Sergeant <stevesgt at effable.com> wrote:

> My 2014 Honda Insight includes an almost identical statement in its manual.
>
> I've only dared operate HTs with magmounts in this car, so far with
> impunity.
>
>
> On 5/6/19 9:45 AM, Phil Hystad via Elecraft wrote:
> > 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.
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