A month ago, I took a drive u to Detroit -my home town and picked u a New Ford Maverick Hybrid on the Ford Employee and immediate family plan. I have a brother in law who is an Audio engineer at Fords.
Anyhow. It doesn't even have 1600 mile on it and the trip back from Detroit was 1100 miles.
Being a hybrid, I have not yet got out my Spectrum analyzer to see how clean the electronics are.. My last car, a German made vehicle had NO RFI at all. I pulled the HF radio from it and sold the car to my nephew. before I install any ham gear in the car the car has navigation and locator- remote start and can tell me and the cops where it is if it's stolen.
Ford has suspended the 10 device Wi-FI that's supposed to be in the truck because of chip shortages and that's a bone of contention. Since ford has partnered with AT&T.. when and if they offer wifi hot spot, it will be on AT&T at $20 per month.. well.. I am looking into TELO.. its 10 dollar s month service for 5 Gb of 4G LTE, good enough for video and audio. Tello seems to use T-Mobile GSM towers... I picked up a hot spot for $13 on Ebay. All should be arriving today.. and I will probably put it in my new Ford and use wither Fusion, DMR or Allstar for World wide connection..Plus I can take my hot spot anywhere...
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Verizon and AT&T hot spots are about $50 per month.. so I'll give this a try and see how it works.. I plan on reporting back as to my success or failure.. but at $10 a month and $3 initial investment ,, It will give me world wide communications in the car with a talkie.. before I drill any holes or have to fight RFI...
I did listen on AM radio and the hash is pretty clean but HF is another matter..
So stay Tuned...
Larry Macionski