My setup adding a permanent antenna solution to my Jeep for Ham Radio and CB #hamradio #hamradiomobile #cbradio Link to the antenna mount shown in video: www.ebay.com/itm/281719429956
'Cause we got a little 'ole convoy Rockin' through the night Yeah, we got a little 'ole convoy Ain't she a beautiful sight C'mon and join our Convoy Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'Cross the USA
@@timothy____1989 Well we laid a strip for the Jersey Shore Prepared to cross the line I could see the bridge was lined with bears But I didn't have a dog gone dime I said Pig Pen this is the Rubber Duck We just ain't gonna pay not toll So we crashed the gate doing 98 I said let them truckers roll 10-4!
Keep the Rubber Side Down, Walt! 73 -mike EDIT ADDED... If this happens... "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night..." DON"T STOP!!! 😎
Great Walt, Just back from a camping trip to Staffordshire UK. Used my G90 mobile with the SlideWinder DX Coil antenna and military whip and was surprised at the success with a QSO to Kuwait. I have to say my G90 is a wonderful rig running on a 12v lawnmower battery.
Hi Walt, it’s fun watching the twinkle in your eyes as you’re enjoying this great hobby. I too am gathering quite a collection of antennas (purchased & Walt-designed)! Enjoy your trek North and please keep safe. We too will be trekking up home next Wednesday to South Central PA. ‘73 AC3EA
Back in the day when I drove to Savannah from Atlanta on I-16, I took a length of PVC pipe and cut a hole through it. The PVC slipped down over the Hustler pole (mast). The other end extended forward to the luggage rack, attached with a bolt, rubber washers and wing nut. This was great to take the strain of the wind off the Hustler and connector. I think I had a second tension line to the side to stabilize the mast. Just a consideration Walt.
@@COASTALWAVESWIRES- No luggage rack? Maybe use a harness through the back windows to the antenna at the roof line? Duct tape is glorious. Safe trip. 73 N4SHO
Thanks for the info and links but mostly the great videos. Based on your videos I just got a Xiegu G90, the jeep spare tire mount and some Shark Ham sticks. They arrived Monday and I was on the air yesterday. 20m and was talking to Maine from TN. You've made me want to get out and try things with different setups and antennas. etc. Keep up the great videos.
You can never have too many antennas 🙂. I have just repurposed my magnetic loop antenna to work with my uSDX QRP SDR rig and it works great and will definitely be an easy portable antenna for 20 to 10 meters. Not sure I will mount it for mobile use though lol. Good to see you still using CB - so many seem to ignore it which is a shame ( 11m skip in Europe has been amazing lately). 73 M7BLC
I have a small home mag loop for 20m & a car with a panoramic sunroof.. look at a metal box with massive holes in the front, back, slides and top and how good a screen do you think that would be... 20dB if that & that is only a smidge over 3 S points... Not for TX but for RX it is surprising how much you can still hear with your mag loop INSIDE the car. I had mine suspended by 2 bungie cords between the 2 rear grab handles (& could reach back between the seats to peak the capacitor tuning). Give it a try & you will be surprised to see what you can still hear ( inc DX)..... And you don't even have to worry about low car park roofs or car washes... The ultimate stealth antenna.
I love hamsticks. I have a Breedlove stake mount on the back of my f-150. I put a piece of 6” PVC pipe under my back seat. I store the antennas in that. I also use harbor freight colored zip ties to match the whip to the base. Just grab both green items, screw together and get on the air. I use an ic-705 in the truck. I hope go buy an ft-891 at the Huntsville Hamfest to mount permanently. Love the content. Keep being you. Thanks, Ray -KN4RAY
👍Good going Walt. I have been using hamsticks mobile for a while and I am surprised how well they work. One thing I did which greatly improved audio on receive was to connect the rig's headphone out to the car's audio system auxiliary input. All it needed was a 3.5mm to 3.5mm jack lead.
That is the most realistic trunk, sometimes my shack gets like that after making jumpers, using crimper, or heat shrink. If you are really IN the hobby then you understand.
Walt, my friend and I ran his Jeep like yours, for communications on a SCCA Winter Rallye checkpoint. Used a Larson nmo mount in the center of the fiberglass roof on top with a super fishing magnet on the inside holding it tight. Worked terrific! 73, Steve K8SAS
I have same sticks for HF bands. They are working but they have very narrow SWR tuning. Some like 50 KHz. Anything off the frequency and SWR is going up crazy.
Another great vid mate love the firestick had one years ago for cb my friend put it on the roof of his van magmount yes you can guess it blew off lol.....walt take care drive safe cant wait for the next vid 73 m7etk...this is the way of the ham
Good Luck on the Trip. I just picked up the New REZ Antenna Recon 40. Loving it so far. Got Alaska, Slovenia and Italy for the first 3 contacts on 20 meters.
Thank you for the QSO this morning on 14.310 I heard you just as I turned on my radio lol !! It was funny because it wasn't until I was signing off I recognized your voice and realized "wait a minute ...that is my you tube dude that operates near salt water like me " LOLOL... Safe travels today your QSO made my day !! KO4THR Jason in Saint Petersburg FL
working great. I just have the mag mount for the car. has 3 large magnets and is MNO . I do have adapter to 3/8 . manly just GMRS/MURS Comet VHF/UHF antenna. tunes 2 meters and 70 CM great. has very large band with and good gain. I do have CB antenna . even a fire stick 102 in fiber glass whip. it's orange. wont drive with that on but a rest area gets out great and tunes 10/11/12 meters with ATU . I do have a 4 FT CB antenna. 3/8 mount. receives great but poor on TX but has great tune. I got LiFePO4 100 Ah/200 Ah in back depending which I put in. got DC/DC charger and 12V cooler . it will freeze as well. we had ice cream in hot summer when on the road. kids at camp ground went nuts we has ice-cream was 94F that day and muggy. and I did radio at night. 100 watts HF. the only trouble I have is mostly AC noise when car is running. AC off not too bad. only S3 noise from car. put the AC on and it's 10 over 9 . it's the fan. changes with fan speed. snap ferrite just came today. I will try fan motor wires. I all ready did all DC power leads. my work uses lots of ferrite cores cutting RFI. RV's pretty bad at times. solar MPPT is also bad at times. depends on controller. the cheap China ones super bad. Victron pretty quit. I got 200 watt solar in car. Texas got record size hail. be safe on trip. keep in tune to NOAA radio. what I do. great coverage . my radio auto scans all NOAA and tunes to best one. great travel . weather crazy . be safe ,73's
I ran my coax under the roof mount on the jeep down the door frame under the carpet to go to the counsel to the radio. For power I want straight form the battery through the door frame on the passenger side under the dash to the radio with a fuse at the battery and one close to the radio.73 WQ9V
Interesting set up. Seeing the pool noodles I thought you were doing like I do to stop the rattling from the pile of antennas in the trunk. I use pipe lagging strips as antenna covers (can stuff more than one inside). Prevents rattles and protects the antenna.
The other thing i would do is get yourself a kittle tarheel two and one of those kittle memory boxes. Run that alongside your firestik which is what i do on the car.
Great video and it looks like you will do well with your 20 meter Hamstick. My friend does just as you are doing but uses 40 meters. He ties a small line to the Hamstick forward to counter the windage. Have a good trip and stay radio active. 20 meters is not QRP. 😁 Steve, k7ofg
Hey Walt and thank you for the entertaining video. The back of your car looks suspiciously like mine: a bunch of poles and antennas, cables, various antenna mounts, wires and such. Not much room for anything else 😆 I really like the Diamond mono-band HF antennas with the coil at half-height. They seem to be the most efficient. I have the 10, 20 and 40m models on a large magnet mount with a ground braid to the body of the car and I'm quite happy with these. OTOH I had a bad experience with the so-called multiband Outback antennas. Almost impossible to tune on 40m and not quite efficient IMHO. No risk holding the mike while driving in the US? The cops wouldn't like this here. [edited for typos]
Walt like you I love playing with antenna. My most recent project is a 88.5 foot 29 Meter random wire fed by a 9:1 with a 1.1 unun immediately behind it. Starts at the top of a 20 foot mast sloping down to about 10 feet. I get less than 1.5:1 swr on all bands except 80 meters which runs 2.5:1. Even 160 meters runs 1.2:1. 1 25 foot counterpoise with comes to lay on the ground. I was planning on playing with the counterpoise to optimize the antenna but with these results I have not touched it. With my G90 I just got off 15 meters with 5 by 9 reports into Europe. I just had cataract surgery but when I am back to 100% I’ll be trying some verticals along the lines of what you use. Horace N1DDH.
I have been thinking about adding a permanent HF antenna mount to my pickup for HF mobile, but I wasn't sure how the G90 would perform when mobile. I probably wouldn't use it for my daily commute, but would come in handy on my 3 hour long drive to a friend's cabin in northern Michigan when I can't get anyone on the repeaters I pass by.
@@COASTALWAVESWIRES I didn't even take the tuner into account for mobile use. I was more concerned about the 20 watt output for mobile operation. Between Aug of 2023 and Feb 2024 I was using a wire dipole cut for 10 meter and was able to talk from 10 meter down to 40 meter because of the tuner on the G90. Probably wasn't the most efficient, but that is what I had thanks to my Elmer insisting we put up the 10 meter antenna when we put up my dual band 2m/70cm vertical in April 2023 prior to me getting my General ticket upgrade. The thought was I could at least get on 10 meter if I got a HF radio before upgrading to General. I wound up receiving the G90 as a gift for upgrading to General so I made the best of what I had at the time. Now I have an 80 to 10 EFHW for the home shack.
I'm interested how the bracket and the 3rd brake light mount handle the wind load. Keep us updated, Walt. If it works out, I may have to get one for my JK and my hamsticks.
Nice mount Walt. I have a 2018 JKU and have a similar setup on the tailgate and used Ram mounting system parts for the radio mounting. It could work for you. See my QRZ for details. Be safe Dan K0PLC 73
Did you know that there is an access hole in the jeep tail gate to run coax into the jeep? Look on RU-vid there are lots of videos on how to do it. That way you won't runed the seal on the window. 73 WQ9V
if I spent more time in my car I'd totally want a set up like this! I've been making ft8 contacts on my x6100 daily since I got my tech license a few weeks ago... if you were flying somewhere for a week vacation, what would you bring?
I have a similar set up….. mag mount and ham sticks on my Ford F150…. But I get a lot of noise because my chassis is not grounded with my mag mount plane (roof where the mag mount sits). Will grounding the chassis and the plane where the antenna is make a difference? And if so, what’s the best way to ground it? Copper mesh?
Hmmm, could be many things. If you are using the truck’s power the simplest solution is to wire the radio directly to the battery. I’ve done this and immediately eliminated noise. I don’t think grounding the chassis will make a difference, in fact it may cause you to pick up even more noise. That’s just my first thoughts.
Wow, so much gear hi. I think hands free is law over here for hams. My ts480hx is the perfect radio for mobile, everything apart from the console is in the back. Talking and driving never a good idea. Hear about too many accidents. Hands free cheaper than hospital bills hi.
