From: Vadim Kogan (vadim@XCF.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 08:24:44 PST
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:11:03PM -0600, Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
> You may also find that once you have it set up, if yu use the
> regular metal clamp type antenna tie-down, the SWR will change.
Yes, that's expected, however I will test this later when we get a bit
frendlier weather. It sucks to work on this stuff in the rain, and I think
it's time for me to deal with this in the open environment, not in the
garage.
In other news, I've got an apparently good variable capacitor (C8 from
another base matching unit), so I'll put it into a gutted base all by itself
and see whether it'll do the trick (it should).
Have people mounted similarly-sized equipment (mine's the size of a car
stereo) in HMMWVs? I find that trying to put it on the radio mount facing
rearward makes it hard to see the front panel (screen + buttons). I've
instead made a bracket that will mount to the bow between A and B pillars
and have the radio sitting almost sideways (with a little bit of an angle to
the rear). I wonder what other mounting solutions people came up with.
Vadim.
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