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Cambell
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Posted: 24-June-2010 at 18:33 |
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Guys, you know that I'm a radio ham, last weekend I took part in the International Museums On The Air weekend from East Fortune Museum Of Flight. We had a great weekend, over 800 contacts from all over the world, probably the furthest was India, also managed Equatorial Guinea. With that in mind, I've always said that some sort of radio communications in our convoys would be a great advantage, even if its just for lead, middle and tail cars. This would eliminate the slowing down of the lead car after leaving roundabout until the tail car is in sight, maybe a bit dangerous if you've just joined a motorway etc. Anyway, I thought I'd combine my radio and car hobby and well check this pic out, I recon the antenna is fairly discrete and hardly noticable What do you guys recon ? Edited by Cambell |
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Issy
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Very subtle!!
I was speaking to Gary on Sunday about this sounds like a good idea maybe save folk getting lost! Tho not sure about the big ass aerial |
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Pete330
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Lol
You do know we have walkie talkies |
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10-4 big buddy My neighbour is in to all this. Lot of Ham out there if you ask me. |
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhh??????? |
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Cambell
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Oh yes, I have about 600m of LDF 5-50 and the last time I measured, the loss over 100m was about 0.03dB at 14MHz (nice stuff) |
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Me n Donut frequently have a two way radio in the cars when we are out on meets .... mainly because he's always breaking down .... lol Has always had pretty good success to be fair .... saves me listening to my own singing too ! |
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Any semi-rigid |
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Breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck, you got a copy on me Pigpen? C'mon. Sorry couldn't resist it. Sounds a good idea. What's the legality of holding up a CB radio mike to your mouth compared to holding a mobile phone? |
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Andrews or Cellflex? N-type or 7/16 Gary I hear there will be a bear at your 20?
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Andrews Heliax "hardline" N-Type
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Same |
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Ok you totally lost me now!!!!
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The legality is that it is not illegal to use a hand held microphone whilst the vehicle is in motion as you are deemed as passing a short message. It doesn't matter if its Ham Radio, CB, Taxi or Emergency Service, they're all classed as the same thing.
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