Amateur radio. Thats the amateur radio satellite down load frequency. I've seen these guys with a car load of equipment and no place for a passenger to sit.
Looks good from here. Good vibration isolation, enough air circulation. Color clashes with the surrounding panels. Shoulda been hot pink or bright red to really knock your sox off.
I did something similar with my car in the 1900's. My stereo had an Aux in - so I took a portable CD player & put it in the center console. At first, it would skip constantly. I took some towels, and wedged it into the center console so it would fit snuggly. The skipping issue stopped, with the exception of huge bumps.
I bought a used basic model 2001 Intrepid. I carved out a notch in the light switch so I could turn it to the left and enable the sun sensor for automatic headlights, and swapped my basic overhead console with a fancy compass version that I bought used off ebay for $100, and just jammed some copper wire in to connect it, and that ran fine for 9 years.
All our work trucks have vhf radios in them. The roads we travel are radio controlled. Every km there is a call marker, you call out what you are, direction and the marker #. The roads are narrow, twisty and have at most 100ft lines of site. Radio control tells you that a logging truck is coming towards you and tells you to move way over as they won't.
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Amateur radio. Thats the amateur radio satellite down load frequency. I've seen these guys with a car load of equipment and no place for a passenger to sit.
ReplyDeleteI knew that looked like a VHF freq so I googled it - Uplink band for satellite F0-29 is 145.900–146.000 MHz.
DeleteI like this pic kind of reminds me of the good ole days as a teen.
ReplyDeleteThere are those who still use CB's?
ReplyDeleteEmergency services (Police/Fire) still widely use radios.
DeleteActually, pretty ingenious.
ReplyDeleteWiscoDave
It's absolutely brillant
DeleteLooks like a ham sandwich. Some get it.
ReplyDeleteEastwood
Looks good from here. Good vibration isolation, enough air circulation. Color clashes with the surrounding panels. Shoulda been hot pink or bright red to really knock your sox off.
ReplyDeleteThe temporay fix after parking the car on a NYC street for a few hours back in the 1980s
ReplyDeletePretty decent problem solving skills on display there i think.
ReplyDeleteKlaus
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteA ham radio sandwich?
ReplyDelete2-Meters worth
DeleteThe kid will be an engineer some day.
ReplyDeleteI have been a licensed Ham since 1972. I also had things sort of like that way back when.
ReplyDeletenot bad for temp install, eezee-in/eezee oooot
ReplyDeleteIf it works it's good.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was about to post
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I did something similar with my car in the 1900's. My stereo had an Aux in - so I took a portable CD player & put it in the center console. At first, it would skip constantly. I took some towels, and wedged it into the center console so it would fit snuggly. The skipping issue stopped, with the exception of huge bumps.
ReplyDeleteI really don't have a problem with that
ReplyDeleteWith darker foam that wouldn't look bad at all.
ReplyDeleteI bought a used basic model 2001 Intrepid. I carved out a notch in the light switch so I could turn it to the left and enable the sun sensor for automatic headlights, and swapped my basic overhead console with a fancy compass version that I bought used off ebay for $100, and just jammed some copper wire in to connect it, and that ran fine for 9 years.
That's actually pretty clean since he's managed to route the power cord out the back somewhere.
ReplyDeleteShock Mount!
ReplyDeleteEffective mounting for the person's Icom IC-2200H (my best guess) working a VHF 2m repeater.
ReplyDeleteA lot nicer than the usual U-mount screwed to the top of the dashboard.
All our work trucks have vhf radios in them. The roads we travel are radio controlled. Every km there is a call marker, you call out what you are, direction and the marker #. The roads are narrow, twisty and have at most 100ft lines of site. Radio control tells you that a logging truck is coming towards you and tells you to move way over as they won't.
ReplyDeleteExile1981
We always keep pool noodles around the shop, they're quite handy.
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