New toy incoming.

[WRQD922]

3 hours ago, LeoG said:

I don't know what happened.  It snuck out of it's box and it's hiding in my truck

I hide everything in my truck. It’s my mobile man cave. Lol 

[WRXR255]

1 minute ago, WRQD922 said:

I hide everything in my truck. It’s my mobile man cave. Lol 

Ahh, the stuff you dont want the missus to know you bought 8-P

[WRQD922]

1 minute ago, WRXR255 said:

Ahh, the stuff you dont want the missus to know you bought 8-P

You may be on to something there. I like the way you think. 

[LeoG]

Wife is a couple states away with the grand children.  She won't know for a while.

[LeoG]

Temp mounting

 

And I got my call sign on the radio

[LeoG]

On 6/24/2024 at 4:56 PM, WRXR255 said:

Ahh, the stuff you dont want the missus to know you bought 8-P

I bought the missus one too.  So now I have two of them.  One for my truck and one for a base unit.  Been buying stuff to set up the base station.  Right now I have my mobile Nagoya UT72G on a metal sheet stuck out a window so I can use it.  Bought a small Pyramid power supply.  Said it was 7 amps, turned out to be surge amps and it's really 4.5 amps.  Transmitter puts out full power and lights on the radio don't dim at all so must be enough.

Got a mast to put on top of another mast, M&P Hyperflex13 coax, lighting arrestor, wire, ground rod that all came in over the week.

Just went through the hell of running cable by myself from the 2nd floor closet into the basement and up to the 1st floor to the radio.  It really only goes into the basement through a wall and then turns around and goes through the floor.  To hard for it to come out of the wall when all it takes is another 16" of cable to make the loop.

Next run is into the attic and out the vent same as the cell phone booster cable.  That's where the lightning arrester will be and then another run of cable up the mast.  I ordered PL259 connectors on all ends but they ended up not having a SO239 arrester.  So I got an "N" type and had those ends put on the coax for the arrester.  Theoretically the "N" connector is better than the UHF connector for these frequencies so I guess that's a forced plus.