SO WHAT, now you have EXTREAME QRO amp, they hear you: 200 dB over S-9
BUT you have NO antenna to HEAR them!
I'd rather hear them, then talk to them with my 100W mobile with a Hi- Q-HF
antenna.
Charlie, VA7HIQ/W6
Charlie, you make a wrong turn on the 405? Where's your amplifier? Dreams,
Fantasy's and Desires? It's just not acceptable to say I've done it all
until they flip the lid shut for the last time.
I've got 30+ years mobile. You aren't really making RF until your AM
radio's front end has blown out, you've made the electronic fuel control on
your diesel pickup "Shut OFF" or backfire while towing on the freeway, and
your trailer brake controller needs RFI protection to keep from locking up
the brakes every time you talk on the radio. The rig has dual batteries but
have also added an extra alternator just incase to keep things up to snuff.
You pull up to a toll booth on the Jersey Turnpike and smack all the light
fixtures with your antenna bent over about 5 feet... The toll booth lady
looks you in the eye and says, THAT'S NOT A LEGAL HEIGHT ON THE TURNPIKE and
you answer, OH that's for measuring bridge heights, I'm a contractor working
for the state do you want to see my authorization? Turning and mumbling its
right here somewhere... Hey, It's totally adjustable, see look watch it go
up and down, whirrrrrrrr....
Pull out of the booth, yeah standby I have to retune... You wouldn't
believe what I had to do this time guys...
Any mobile less than 1KW output and shorter than a 14 foot tall antenna is
just more QRM on the band. Yeah you can hear them all right but you are the
same guy they say... WHO'S the MOBILE IN THERE? Try again..
I'd rather have them say... "YOU'RE MOBILE?" WOW... My mobile has always
been louder than most 100 watt home stations.
To do mobile right, you take an acceptable vehicle platform, install 200 amp
wiring, the optimum antenna, the best rig and the biggest amplifier. You
then work all the bugs out of the vehicle until it tolerates what you need
to do for radio.
You can never run ENOUGH power mobile and that takes an amplifier. That's
REAL RADIO.
Semper Amplio,
BOB DD
