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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:06 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Need console recommend on 2011 F-150
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9462
Re: Need console recommend on 2011 F-150
Very interesting. Thank you. Havis has brackets to attach one of their floor plates to the bracket around the RCM. I've been considering going that route, but have some concerns about the stability of that arrangement. For one, there's nothing anchoring the floor plate to the transmission tunnel tow...
- Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:37 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Need console recommend on 2011 F-150
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9462
Re: Need console recommend on 2011 F-150
I have a new F-150 and I'm looking for console ideas. Do you have photos of this wiring chase?tvsjr wrote:We built a custom false floor with integrated wiring chase...
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:50 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Small Motorola external speaker
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9451
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:43 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Small Motorola external speaker
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9451
Small Motorola external speaker
In another thread, we got to talking about small external speakers that still sound good. While sorting through a junk box yesterday, I found a new-in-the-box sample of one of the speakers I've been happy with. I bought it at a hamfest several years ago. It appears to have been part of a Motorola ce...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:05 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: FT-857 installation advice please, 2002 Dodge Ram 1500
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4339
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:20 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: FT-857 installation advice please, 2002 Dodge Ram 1500
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4339
Re: FT-857 installation advice please, 2002 Dodge Ram 1500
put a little speaker next to your remoted base... I have been sorely disappointed with the small external speakers I've been seeing at hamfests. They must be building these things with high frequency drivers because they sound very tinny to my ears. Unfortunately, this seems to be an area where big...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:28 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: 6m antenna options
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4873
Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I'm going to go with a Larsen NMO50 or something similar mounted at pretty much the center of the roof in both directions. The hole was drilled, the mount installed, and the feedline routed last weekend. Maybe this weekend, I'll get the antenna mounted and tun...
- Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:13 pm
- Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
- Topic: Base dual-band ham antenna
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1044
Base dual-band ham antenna
The county where I live is developing plans for a new Emergency Operations Center. I suggested to the EMA Director that the new EOC should have provisions for amateur radio. He contacted the "owner" of the building where the new EOC is going and we have an agreement in principle to mount a...
- Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:05 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: 6m antenna options
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4873
6m antenna options
[Potentially Off-topic] I'm considering various antenna options for 6m FM and I'd like the group's opinions. The vehicle in quesiton is a Ford Expedition so it has lots of roof surface and I'm not concerned about drilling holes. Here's what I see as possibilities: 1. A full-size quarter-wave on a ba...
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:27 am
- Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
- Topic: ONE ON THE RADIOS IN MOVIES TOPIC AGAIN
- Replies: 164
- Views: 59929
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:30 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: 2004 Jetta install?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3607
- Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:37 pm
- Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
- Topic: MSR2000 Model Number Breakdown
- Replies: 2
- Views: 640
- Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:36 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: 2004 Jetta install?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3607
No, I bought an A4 GTI a few months before the new ones hit the dealers. My 1.8T is rated at 180HP while the 2.0T in the new ones is rated at 200HP. The weights are comparable, I think, so the new ones should be a little faster than mine. The new ones are also reported to handle better, but with a s...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:40 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: 2004 Jetta install?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3607
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:38 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Andersen PowerPoles for Harneses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2985
On second thought, and after doing some Googling, maybe I didn't see what I thought I saw.
Take a look at this photo http://home.comcast.net/~buck0/app_asb3.jpg. Maybe that's what I saw, because I can't recall ever seeing a tie-wrap small enough to go through the "roll-pin" holes.
Bob...
Take a look at this photo http://home.comcast.net/~buck0/app_asb3.jpg. Maybe that's what I saw, because I can't recall ever seeing a tie-wrap small enough to go through the "roll-pin" holes.
Bob...
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:14 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Andersen PowerPoles for Harneses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2985
I've been a little disappointed in the mating friction of the Powerpoles. At Dayton, I couldn't help but notice that one of the Powerpole dealers had kinda solved the lack of pull-apart resistance. You know how when you slide two connector shells together, there's a small hole on the split line of ...
- Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:45 am
- Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
- Topic: K4WTF - Needs your Prayers and your Support
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4625
Who's on first?
John, I understand. Several years ago, my father went to a prominent local hospital for heart bypass surgery conducted by a surgeon from a leading cardiac center. Dad was in cardiac recovery for over a week after the surgery (most people only spend a day there) and spent another couple of weeks in a...
- Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:45 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: SUV Antenna Mount
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2096
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:18 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Diamond NR72BNMO
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4417
After much personal reflection, I recall that I owned a Comet SBB-2NMO for a while. It was mounted on the luggage rack on my Ford Explorer using a Diamond mount of some sort. I forgot the antenna was there one day and put the Exploder in the garage. Snapped that Comet right off. The ferrule where th...
- Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:13 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Radio layout with center counsole gear shifter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5016
- Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:11 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Diamond NR72BNMO
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4417
- Wed May 31, 2006 3:44 pm
- Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
- Topic: Kenwood TKR-750 or Vertex/Standard VXR-7000 for ham use?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3478
Make absolutely certain that you have the repeater tuned before you even think of putting it on the air. The TKR-x50 series has a real front end/preselector in it... if you don't tune it for your specific frequencies, your sensitivity will suck. Yeah, and that may be the issue. The shop probably do...
- Wed May 31, 2006 3:41 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Warning Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What did I see?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3469
- Wed May 31, 2006 1:56 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Warning Equipment Discussion
- Topic: What did I see?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3469
What did I see?
I noticed a local county sheriff department CVPI with a very eye-catching warning light. It was about 18" long and mounted on top of the dashboard at the base of the windshield. Half of the light was red, other half blue, appeared to be LEDs. The light was programmed so that the LEDs seemed to ...
- Wed May 31, 2006 1:47 pm
- Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
- Topic: Kenwood TKR-750 or Vertex/Standard VXR-7000 for ham use?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3478
- Wed May 24, 2006 9:41 pm
- Forum: Computer/Technical Assistance
- Topic: Writing "HELP" files
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2105
Do a Google search for Windows Help Compiler. The actual compiler from Microsoft ships with their development products (Visual Basic, C, etc.). There may be a freeware/shareware/public license compiler out there, but I didn't look that far. Another approach would be put your notes together in HTML f...
- Wed May 24, 2006 9:30 pm
- Forum: Legacy Batboard Motorola ASTRO (VSELP/IMBE/AMBE) Equipment Forum
- Topic: God bless Germany.......digital police radio in germany....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2789
The best think with Tetra is for logical channels per physical channel and full duplex interconnect meaning no need to cary a cell and a tetra unit. When the Formula 1 circus comes to North America (Montreal and Indianapolis) , they bring their Tetra system with them. The FIA officials all walk aro...
- Tue May 16, 2006 4:46 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Warning Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Gamber Johnson articulating arm?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3258
And with all due respect to Gary, in my opinion, Jotto is just downright dangerous. Cheap would be the word I'd use. We won't compromise anyone's safety to save some $$. Could you elaborate? What is it about the Jotto mounts that you think is dangerous? I had a Jotto mount in a Ford Explorer. I'll ...
- Tue May 02, 2006 4:03 pm
- Forum: Radio Programming
- Topic: motorola vs kenwood
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2233
In the case of the software for the Kenwood TK-x90 mobiles, the DOS version is readily available and seems to run OK on most computers, though I'm guessing that it won't talk to the radio if run in a DOS box under Windows. It's probably best to boot the computer straight to DOS. The Windows version ...
- Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:30 pm
- Forum: Computer/Technical Assistance
- Topic: SanDisk flash drive advice
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2320
SanDisk flash drive advice
I have a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 1GB USB flash drive that I bought at BestBuy last November for about $80. The thing worked great. Even though the U3 software that's supposed to let you run programs from the flash drive was kind of annoying at times, the drive had tons of room and always worked flawles...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:20 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Power wiring questions: grounding, circuit breakers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3127
Thanks for all of the tips and advice. Note that I said nothing in my original post about fusing the ground lead. My question was whether or not to ground to the body/chassis of the vehicle at the equipment or run the grounds back to the underhood electrical distribution point. Based on what I read ...
- Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:26 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Power wiring questions: grounding, circuit breakers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3127
Power wiring questions: grounding, circuit breakers
At the risk of opening the great power wiring debates again, I have some questions for the group: 1. When mounting radio equipment in a vehicle, is it better to do the grounding at the equipment or run the grounds back to the power source? Let's say you are tapping off the battery or other reliable ...
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:49 am
- Forum: Vehicle Warning Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Crown Vic automatic fire supression systems ?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4584
What are these systems using for an extinguishing agent? Halon is probably the best, but it's a chlorinated fluorohydrocarbon, so production has been seriously curtailed by federal and international regulations. You can still get halon, but the cost for refilling these systems is going to continue t...
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:37 am
- Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
- Topic: eBay forbids selling Motorola Radios???
- Replies: 57
- Views: 14858
- Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:49 am
- Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
- Topic: NMO Shielded mounts ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1101
I ordered some Larsen NMOKHFDS mounts from Tessco earlier this week. No account necessary if you use a credit card. The DS cable is essentially the same as the UD cable, but uses a stranded center conductor. Also, you should be able to find dielectric grease at just about any auto parts store (NAPA,...
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:12 am
- Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
- Topic: NMO Shielded mounts ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1101
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:15 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Havis-Shields face plates in JottoDesk console
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1514
Havis-Shields face plates in JottoDesk console
Will it work? Do the mounting holes in the plate match the mounting holes in the console?
Thanks!
Bob...
Thanks!
Bob...
- Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:38 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: 2003 Ford Explorer - Console.. among other things...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1539
Take a look at the Jotto Desk console. If you think it will suit your needs, let me know. I have one that I took out of an '03 Exploder. It fit great and was easy to install, but I ended up getting rid of the car. I'll sell the console and some face plates for less than new price. You can email me a...
- Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:53 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Jotto Desk vs. Havis Shields console for Explorer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3665
I think I have it figured out. The link to the installation instructions on Jotto Desk's website was broken, but it worked today when I checked. It looks like once you remove the screw that's under the pad in the storage compartment, it's just a matter of applying some pressure to pop the top out of...
- Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:29 pm
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Jotto Desk vs. Havis Shields console for Explorer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3665
Jotto Desk console. Can have it installed in 10 minutes. We use a lot of them in Exploders. Bump again. I'm about ready to order a Jotto console for my '03 Explorer, so I did some poking around today to see what it was going to take to get the top of the old console off. I'm stumped. What screw or ...
- Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:32 am
- Forum: Vehicle Radio Installs
- Topic: Jotto Desk vs. Havis Shields console for Explorer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3665
Let me bump this topic with some additional questions. It looks like the Jotto Desk console for the Explorer is a little deeper than the Havis-Shields. More depth would seem to be A Good Thing in order to accomodate deeper equipment that doesn't have remote head capability. However, the only photos ...