San Diego BS Thread.

I've heard good things about this radio. I'm by no means knowledgeable on these setups. I just want a better option than the Boefang hand helds I'm currently using. The 65 watt power will be nice to have available if needed.

The guy I bought the radio from gave me a wall transformer so I was playing with the setup last night. I'm pretty excited about it. I can easily adjust squelch and save up to 100 named memory channels which I'll be saving the known "Race" channels to start.

I like the second option as a fall back plan. Thanks! I'm not shoving more wires through the firewall grommet. Already have enough going through there.

 

Lies, its never enough. We'll all eventually find something else to add. Like some heated cupholders....

 

I prewired 5 switches when I did my fuse block so all I have to do is add the accessory and switch later on. It was a big project at the time but the "plug and play is nice now." I'm only using two of the switches at the moment.

 

Yeah HAM is way clearer than a mojority of CB setups since they are usually not tuned correctly. I have the one in the truck, then 2 UV-8R's for other people.

 

You do t see a lot of CB setups on the west coast. They were big when I live on the East Coast but I rarely see them out here.

That’ll be my exact setup. I have my current UV-8R and a spare for CYA. With the hard mount I’ll have two “loaners” and/or a backup.

 

What antennas are you guys using for this Kenwood?

ideally I'd like to mount a half wave on the driver fender to mirror the radio antenna, but more realistically a quarter wave for the 2m

 

What HRO told me to grab when I bought the setup
Larsen
NMO 150 (2m)
Frequency: 144-174 MHz
Gain: 3dBd / 5.2dBi
Electrical: 5/8 wave
Height: 49"
Power Rating: 200 Watts

 

3/4 NMO Cables are under headliner

 

Using a tram 5/8 wave and also a tram 1/4 wave. Both work very well

same radio

 

odd you went with tri-band for a single band radio. I'm thinking Laird B132s ona fender mount I'll make

 

The dual band antenna actually goes to a dual band radio. The other antenna is dedicated to the kenwood

 

I put silicone around the grommet, after several years of fuckery there was no evidence of water under the carpet.

 

i meant to quote bronwmike

 

Which one's for the Kenwood?

Edit: looks like the tram 1/4 wave?

 

I did the same. Problem is I'm out of switch spots, so I'm working on this.

 

The long 5/8 wave but sometimes i use a 1/4 wave vhf antenna

you can see the short vhf antenna here


the 1/4” short vhf works almost as good as the 5/8

 

How's the performance with the shorter 1/4" short? I'd rather not have a huge antenna if I can avoid it.

Edit: I see your comment under the pictures now

 

Here it is

$25 Tram Browning 1115-B Wide Band Antenna 20" 136-940 MHz 3/4" NMO Connector for all VHF UHF Mobile Radios

https://www.amazon.com/Browning-111...8&sr=1-1-191b1ae3-0539-4250-ad39-b698e0b800f6

 

Its a single band, heres the exact model:

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-000559

 

Cool. i looked it up and it showed tri band. prolly fat fingered something. thanks for the link