[Mobile-Portable] Screwdriver Antenna & Mobile Setups

[David]

LOL -- One of my contacts from my mobile CW said: "You are my GOD!" (:

ABOUT:
"Interesting the 'cantilevered' antenna mount David. Got a url on that
one or is it home brew?"

It is totally my custom arrangement for cantilever. And, I even designed
and fabricated the "Quik-Mount-&-Connect" arrangement for the Larry's
Antenna.

The car is a 1992 Subaru Legacy Wagon. It happened to have a handy loop of
1/2 round steel stock welded to the front-most end right-hand frame
member. It is under the bumper and a couple inches to the rear of it. I
have some photos of it somewhere. Everything is clamped/through-bolted to
that loop using conductive grease for a good ground connection...has to be
disassembled there and cleaned and re-greased every couple of years.

David
W7DBH



** Great description of what your running Dave, and way KooL on the North
** Korean contact!
**
** Wish I had the room under the hood for a spare battery, but there are
** three rows of seats, so the space on the floor between the third and
** second row works out just fine ... hi
**
** I used Velcro strips on my dash to hold those small light control heads
** that control the heavier modules that they are connected to further back
** in the vehicle. If I am driving, they are on that side, if my wife
** drives, there on the passenger side and I play even more ham radio than
** when I drive.
**
** Years ago while mobiling hf from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan south to S.E.
** Michigan, I came across a strong cw signal while on I75. Used my hand
** mic to key the Yaesu radio and said hello to a Novice. He was thrilled
** to have worked a mobile ....  :-)
**
** Interesting the 'cantilevered' antenna mount David. Got a url on that
** one or is it home brew?
**
** 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ
**
** On 1/17/2014 6:45 PM, David wrote:
**> 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
**>
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-- 
David B.