In the 1980's I had the following setup: 1978 Camaro with: 100 watt Micor (12 freq) on 10 meter FM 50 watt Motran LLT CHiP radio on 52.525 MHz Icom 50 watt 2 meter radio police/fire scanner to keep tabs on local activity CB radio All radios individually wired directly to battery 100 amp alternator
Today I am in the process of setting up the following: 1998 Ford Explorer with third row seat to carry all my kids Icom 706-MII-G for HF/10 meter/6 meter and backup 2 meter/440 Kenwood dual band radio for 2 meter/440 MHz Motorola 900 radio 2.4 GHz roof antenna to connect computer for wireless networking police/fire scanner second (deep-cycle) battery to power up all radios and isolate radio power feed from rest of vehicle a single 6 gauge power run from second battery to rear to power all radios (with ground return) 130 amp alternator ------ Original Message ------ Received: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:15:37 AM PDT From: Mike Morris WA6ILQ <wa6...@gmail.com> SNIP > > At one point my Ford Falcon station wagon had a low > band 4F LHT on 6m, a high band MHT (6F or 8F, > I forget) , and two UHF MHTs, plus a couple of > other radios in it. The UHF MHTs and the police > scanner shared a single 18" receive antenna. And the > straight 6 and front drum brakes got replaced with > a 302 V8 and disks off a wrecked and rolled Mustang... > but that was another project... > > Mike WA6ILQ > >
