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candy cane
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 1:28 am: | 
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I have a nissan pick theres no where to mount a fullsize radio like a galaxy anyone have any tips or tricks Im tierd of laying the radio in the seat |
Vernonott
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 4:49 pm: |
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I have mounted many radios in the ceiling of these small trucks.You can run the hotwire and coax under the windshield moulding . |
Tech181
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 11:42 pm: |
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candy cane,
We all have these problems. Have you thought about using a pedestal mount? You bolt the mount to the floor or transmission hump, and then mount the radio to the mount.
Check this site out...
http://www.transeltech.com/cradles/cradles.html
Steve
Tech181
Tech181@copperelectronics.com |
Hamcber
| | Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 1:16 am: |
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Sure would be nice if they started making these radios smaller like some of the FULLY loaded ham stuff available. These days, you can buy a radio that goes from 160 through all the HF bands (including 10 and 11) right up into the 440 band that is the size of a couple of Altoids boxes (the Yaesu FT-817 comes to mind). In fact, I own one tri-band radio that puts out 5 watts and about fits INSIDE an Altoids box with LOTS of room to spare! Amazing...
Why do they still make CB radios with only one circuit board (not layers) and tons of wasted space between the components on that one board? Because CBers think that size is POWER??? Because they thing CBers wouldn't want small radios??
I think it has to do with some tradition that the bigger the radio, the better it is. Smaller radios or those radios with detachable faces solve a lot of problems. |
Greg C.
| | Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 11:29 am: |
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Here's a couple more links:
http://www.ram-mount.com/ramcat.htm
http://www.securitysupplies.net/pan827serdel.html
http://www.w9iix.com/ |
Vernonott
| | Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 9:57 am: |
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If I were a tech in the radio business I would hate to work inside some of the smaller models.The insides of some of the hand held radios is a real pain. |
Hamcber
| | Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 10:53 pm: |
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I have been designing and building some surface mount transmitter sub-boards lately. SMT is nice since you don't have to drill all the holes after etching the boards (I lay out the traces using software, then have an X-Y board plotter draw the traces with an etch resist pen, then etch). I HATE drilling boards for hours before I get to start stuffing them with parts! After a few months of prototyping the boards for some of the new stuff I have been working on, I actually PREFER SMT!
I have also discovered that SMT parts are more durable. I have smoked far fewer SMT parts while experimenting with my designs that I usually do with DIP parts. They are a lot more forgiving before letting all the smoke out. |
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