[Elecraft] Mobile high power

[Phil Kane]

On 5/6/2019 12:41 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:

> Nope not out of service here.   The 40 MHz band is used in Tennessee
> today  by the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Department of Safety.   Look
> at any of the TN black and whites and notice the 5 ft whip with the
> spring and ball at the base.  All of those radios are 100 watt
> mobiles.   And when they stop quickly it goes "swish swish swish".

The CHP has gone to SUVs with the Lo-Band whip on the roof.  A little
higher and it can recharge the batteries from the trolley wires....  :)--

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

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