At what point do you need an intervention?

[WRTC928]

If you have one radio for 70cm, 2m, 6m, and 10m, another one for GMRS and MURS, two mikes hanging off the same mount, and dual antennas whipping in the wind (nod to Billy Ray Cyrus), are you overdoing it?  I absolutely could not find a single antenna that covered all those bands. 2m/70cm antennas will often work great on GMRS/MURS, but when you add 6m or 10m, GMRS SWR goes stratospheric. It's just too much to ask one antenna to do. The driver side has a TYT TH-9800 under the seat mated to a Comet tri-band or Diamond quad-band as the fancy strikes me. Under the passenger seat is an Anysecu WP-9900 feeding a Nagoya 200C dual-band antenna tuned for GMRS and MURS (not useful on any ham bands). The TYT speaker is on a Lido headrest mount. I have an external speaker for the WP-9900, but I haven't figured out where I want it yet. The speaker for the 9900 has a volume control because it's a PITA to adjust volume on that unit. The NMO connectors on Breedlove mounts are each supplied with 10' of RG8x coax shielded with wire loom and the connections are sealed with waterproof heat-shrink tubing. The coax is fed up through the factory holes in the floor behind the seats. The radios are on quick-connectors, and I can swap one out for something else in a couple of minutes. Maybe overkill, but I figure at my age, I don't have many more years crawling under trucks and I want to install it once and call it complete.

[WRKC935]

No, not really. 

I have direct access to 12 radios from my desk sitting here.  Mind you they are remote controlled via a dispatch console system and are at the tower. 

I am actually looking to add to the setup since I don't have 10 or 6 meters covered currently on individual radios.  But the Yeasu 847 I can connect to via Remote Hams does offer me access to those bands.  Not looking at 220 at this point, but I do have 900Mhz on analog, DMR and P25

 

[WRTC928]

5 minutes ago, WRKC935 said:

No, not really. 

I have direct access to 12 radios from my desk sitting here.  Mind you they are remote controlled via a dispatch console system and are at the tower. 

I am actually looking to add to the setup since I don't have 10 or 6 meters covered currently on individual radios.  But the Yeasu 847 I can connect to via Remote Hams does offer me access to those bands.  Not looking at 220 at this point, but I do have 900Mhz on analog, DMR and P25

 

At some point, I may swap out the WP-9900 for something that operates on 1.25 meters (220). There's so little traffic on 1.25 that my buddy and I use it as our own private simplex band. There's a repeater in Oklahoma City, but I've never heard anyone on it. However, I'm using an HT and can only listen when I'm closer to the city. My buddy and are on 1.25 enough that I'd get some use out of a unit in the vehicle. 

Currently, I have a base unit in the house, a mobile in each vehicle, an additional mobile in the truck, and more HTs than anyone with good sense should own. 

[tcp2525]

1 hour ago, WRTC928 said:

If you have one radio for 70cm, 2m, 6m, and 10m, another one for GMRS and MURS, two mikes hanging off the same mount, and dual antennas whipping in the wind (nod to Billy Ray Cyrus), are you overdoing it?  I absolutely could not find a single antenna that covered all those bands. 2m/70cm antennas will often work great on GMRS/MURS, but when you add 6m or 10m, GMRS SWR goes stratospheric. It's just too much to ask one antenna to do. The driver side has a TYT TH-9800 under the seat mated to a Comet tri-band or Diamond quad-band as the fancy strikes me. Under the passenger seat is an Anysecu WP-9900 feeding a Nagoya 200C dual-band antenna tuned for GMRS and MURS (not useful on any ham bands). The TYT speaker is on a Lido headrest mount. I have an external speaker for the WP-9900, but I haven't figured out where I want it yet. The speaker for the 9900 has a volume control because it's a PITA to adjust volume on that unit. The NMO connectors on Breedlove mounts are each supplied with 10' of RG8x coax shielded with wire loom and the connections are sealed with waterproof heat-shrink tubing. The coax is fed up through the factory holes in the floor behind the seats. The radios are on quick-connectors, and I can swap one out for something else in a couple of minutes. Maybe overkill, but I figure at my age, I don't have many more years crawling under trucks and I want to install it once and call it complete.

You sir are slacking. Not enough radios!!! Now that's areal nice setup. Enjoy.

[AdmiralCochrane]

9 hours ago, tcp2525 said:

You sir are slacking. Not enough radios!!! Now that's areal nice setup. Enjoy.

I agree, not even close to needing intervention.  50 years ago I had a CB and Radio Shack scanner in my car.