[Mobile-Portable] Turbo TunerII Screwdriver Antenna Controller Source

[David]

Bill, here's the basics:
I have an ICOM-706MKIIG under the passenger seat and a "Larry's Antennas"
screwdriver cantilevered from under the front bumper and raised to a
custom quik-mount at hood level.

There's an extra diode-isolated battery under the hood dedicated to Ham
Radio.

The 706 Remote Head is angled toward the drive (Me!)on a 1/2 inch plastic
insert that fits into the dashboard's upper-center cup holder slot.

A surplus J-38 key for CW ...Key on the between-seats console lets me be a
Code Warrior©, #63(or 69...I never remember). "Putting code on the road
using the primary mode"

--I cannot prove that one afternoon in about 1997 while driving around
Beaverton Oregon I had a 59 contact with a coveted North Korean station on
20m ssb!

David  W7DBH



** Glad to share David. Am 66 here, so know where your coming from! hi hi
**
** Using the Turbo Tuner with a TS-480HX running 200 watts into a HiQ 5/160
** screwdriver antenna. There are a bunch of screwdriver antenna's out
** there. Figured the wider the coil the better the efficiency and the
** higher the Q, thus my choice. Next one will be HiQ 6/160 for the
** additional improvement it makes on 80 and 160. Love working 160 mobile!
**
** What is your mobile setup? Am sure we are all interested in what brings
** you your hf mobile fun.
** ===========================
**
** I have photo's in the TS480 forum showing two different mounting
** arrangements
** on the rear of a Trail Blazer that would apply to any vehicle with a RV
** towing option. Tow bar assembly should be heavy duty tubular steel with
** all sections welded to each other and to the vehicle frame. That
** provides a built in rf ground to the two bar slot. How ever also
** recommend running a ground cable from the vehicle frame to the antenna
** mount ground too.
**
** Photo's include couple gear installs too, along with text files explain
** equipment used.
**
** http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TS-480/files
** In the Files section, go to the folder named:
** WD8ARZ Geiger Mobile WD8ARZ TS-480HX Mobile Installation
**
** Geiger Counter Radiation Graph also included as this station is a 'Radio
** Active' one .... hi hi  Inspector Alert Geiger Counter provides its
** Counts Per Minute (CPM) via the internet  while mobile to the Radiation
** Network map site at:http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
**
** Thanks to everyone making photo's for their mobiles, much appreciated!
**
** 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ Geiger Counter Station named NULL
** WD8ARZ-7    HT TH-D7AG - APRS
** WD8ARZ-9    Mobile TM-D700AG - APRS 100hz pl - Monitoring 146.52
** WD8ARZ-10  Android Smart Phone - APRSdroid  and U2APRS - APRS
** APRS Viewer on Android displays APRS stations only, no beacon /
** transmitting
** Using Kenwood's SkyCommand mode to operate HF with my HT
**
** On 1/17/2014 1:07 PM, David wrote:
**> Bill, thank you! I was just thinking about safety while mobile Hamming
**> the
**> other day. I use a screwdriver antenna, too. This add-on sounds like the
**> cat's meow for me...especially that i am older and had to quit riding
**> motorcycles because 'my mind wanders...that is, I just don't pay proper
**> attention to everything like I did just a few short years ago...i WANT
**> to
**> do so, but, fact is, I don't.
**> ---Sooo,... this device may be just the ticket for me.
**>
**> Thank you for telling your experience.
**> David B.
**> W7DBH (I don't want the to mean Darn Bad Ham)
**> Mobile & Portable only...
**>
** ______________________________________________________________
** Mobile-Portable mailing list
** Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/mobile-portable
** Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
** Post: mailto:Mobile-Portable at mailman.qth.net
**
** This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
** Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
**
**


-- 
David B.