[Mobile-Portable] Vehicles and EMI

[Mark Schoonover]

Dallas & Pamela Peak, MDs wrote:

> My BMW X5 has a sticker on the driver's windshield warning against
> the use of a ham radio, cb or non BMW-approved cell phone with the
> risk of voiding the warranty.
> 
> Do other vehicles have this type of sticker posted? Does anyone know
> of a case where problems occurred?
> 

Not in my Dodge. It clearly states in the manual that you can have radios
installed, as long as the antenna is matched properly and has low SWR.
Personally, if I saw a sticker like that in any car that I was about to
purchase, I wouldn't buy it.

73

.mark

KA6WKE