I find I get about the same with both. Sometimes eco is better, sometimes normal is. What I find makes quite an impact is whether you are driving with, or against the wind. The bronco is a brick driving down the hiway and if the wind is against, then the milage really goes down.
I am glad that I could help. There is plenty of great ham radio content creators on RU-vid. Speaking of which, I also have a channel dedicated to ham radio and electronics. youtube.com/@graymanpota
Good question. 650 watts is going to be between 46 and 54 amps per light on a 12 to 14 volt system. That would exceed the 30 amp rating for the largest switch in the Bronco. Most likely there will be a relay that would draw power direct from the battery and then a low current circuit to a switch that could activate the relay.
You can find a list of satellites 📡 that are currently available for amateur radio use at www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/. I am not familiar with a list of commercial or governmental satellites that are available outside of the amateur service.
The included radials will work, but you need to split them apart into individual lines to get the best performance. I ended up making my own set(s) of radials to have with me that seem to be easier to store and deploy. The BNTECHGO wire seems to be popular in the community and several people are using it for antenna making using it for both the radiating element and for radials. Most people are using between 20 (small) and 26 (smaller) AWG wire. Electrically, the size doesn't matter for portable operations, both will support up to 100 watts or power without any issues. For the radials, there are many schools of thoughts on how much wire should I use. I stick with at least 1/4 wave length of wire on the ground for the radials to match the radiating element length. The standard rule of thumb is more is better, but you need to balance that with time, weight and, money when it comes to portable operations. I run the KISS doctrine for portable operations, keep it simple. I want to focus my time on making contacts and spend less time futzing with equipment, so good enough is my montra in the field. If your SWR is under 2:1 and your noise floor is manageable, start calling CQ. For you fixed home station, take the time to squeeze every bit of performance out of it. So with all of that out of the way, I cut (8) 5 meter lengths of 20 AWG wire (geni.us/BNTECHGO20) and then bundled them in to groups of 4 wires and connected them together with a yellow ring terminal (geni.us/ringterminals). Make sure you use a ring size the fits between over the threads of the spike and connect the spike to the feed point. I use a set of winders from ETSY (creatoriq.cc/4bb3GHc) that a ham makes that I really like. With 2 sets of 4 radials, that gives me 80 meters of wire on the ground that has worked great for me. In reality, because of the KISS doctrine, I normally only deploy 1 bundle, but I have the second as a spare or if the noise floor is a bit high, I will deploy a second bundle to try to reduce the noise floor. I hope this helps. If you are interested, I also have a ham radio dedicated channel that can be found at youtube.com/@graymanpota.
Hey David. I bounce between HAMRS and N3FJP, but I have been playing around with SWLog. HAMRS provides the best interface for portable logging, but does not interface with the radio. I run N3FJP for digital modes since it interfaces with the radio. In the shack I run N3FJP. It is one you pay for, but it was, at the time, $50 USD for a lifetime of updates. Plus he has a module for just about every contest and event in amateur radio. If you are interested, I have spun the radio content out to a separate channel youtube.com/@graymanpota
The roof popping noise is, but the general noise you get used to. I don’t think it’s any worse than any other vehicle with the removable top and doors.
You do not need a special tool when doing a 5 tire rotation - the Bronco is smart enough to match the tires up. I was shocked, but this is true and I tested it myself.
Did you rotate the 5th wheel in or just rotate the 4 that were already in use? I agree the 4 that are already in use the computer with figure out if they changed positions?
I bought this antenna and returned it to DX Engineering... WRC coil does the same time and I have it marked for all the bands; can set it up in 5 minutes with a window screen.... :-) You take a lot of big stuff to the park! :-)
Thank you for the feedback. If you are interested, I have moved the ham radio content over to its own channel. It can be found at youtube.com/@GraymanPOTA
Thank you for the feedback. If you are interested, I have moved the ham radio content over to its own channel. It can be found at youtube.com/@GraymanPOTA
For POTA you do not submit logs as a hunter, but you might want to log you contacts for verification, awards or if it is required by your countries regulating body. I have moved my ham radio content over to a dedicated channel. It can be found at youtube.com/@graymanpota.
So annoying.. Cheap plastic. My favorite part breaking the cheap panel push clips and then convincing myself that I don't need em. (Not typical type probably hard to find replacement). Secondly, why does it terminate dead center middle? Forces you to take entire panel off. Dumb, stupid, inconvenient and dumb. Thx for trying to address this procedure.
@@lxatoledo really, I just need to get in there to connect to aux switch, do you think the KC Hilites control module and wires would fit in there? I def don’t want to break any clips
