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11-11-2012, 5:50 PM
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2007 Chevy Uplander
110W VHF and 100W UHF Orion's combined into one control head. Antenna's pictured are a 1/4 wave VHF and 5/8 wave UHF. The UHF antenna has since been changed out to a 1/4 wave UHF to clear the garage door.
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11-11-2012, 5:55 PM
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Any luck with your hole saw.....i use mine 2 times and the blade is junk......drilled maybe 5 holes and been thru 2 cutters...
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11-11-2012, 6:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Mtnrider
Any luck with your hole saw.....i use mine 2 times and the blade is junk......drilled maybe 5 holes and been thru 2 cutters...
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Off the top of my head I can count where I have used it 14 times. I'm still on the original blade.
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11-11-2012, 7:39 PM
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I, too, run a vhf & uhf into a single Orion head (full key pad). I even believe they are better than the Motorola equipment I used to run!
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11-11-2012, 8:12 PM
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Most of the older GE / M/A-Com stuff is cheaper then a tank of a gas. If you have enough patience, you can pick some really good deals up off eBay.
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11-11-2012, 9:58 PM
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I, too, run a vhf & uhf into a single Orion head (full key pad). I even believe they are better than the Motorola equipment I used to run!
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I'd love to run a Dual Orion in my car, bloody cable for the control head is too think though. Running the cable for my A9 wasn't too bad but I wouldn't call it fun.
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11-12-2012, 8:31 AM
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Looks pretty good.
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11-12-2012, 2:15 PM
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Nice job! Looks like those antennas are gonna whack the garage door, no?
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11-13-2012, 6:59 PM
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Orion control cables and speaker cables are massive....they take up a lot of real estate.....theyre also extremely power hungry too. I used to have a lot of PA issues with them even at half wattage. i still liked them though.
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11-13-2012, 7:24 PM
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You buy that for Lish? Or get rid of your Impala?
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11-14-2012, 9:22 PM
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That is nice and clean. Did she impose a limit on how many radios you can put in the Uplander?
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11-14-2012, 9:31 PM
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Looks good!
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11-17-2012, 1:36 PM
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Excellent work, looks great!
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Any luck with your hole saw.....i use mine 2 times and the blade is junk......drilled maybe 5 holes and been thru 2 cutters...
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Sounds like you're using too much downward pressure? As they taught me at work, don't push too hard, let the blade do all the work.
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11-17-2012, 7:19 PM
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You buy that for Lish? Or get rid of your Impala?
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Traded the Grand Am in for it. The Grand Am got rough pretty quick after two deer hits and a slide into the ditch(not her fault BTW).
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That is nice and clean. Did she impose a limit on how many radios you can put in the Uplander?
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I wanted to do a 9" console between the front bucket seats. It would have made it easy for adding radio's anyways. I haven't specifically heard of a limit yet, I just have to get approval for where the control head will go. Next project is changing out the factory double DIN AM/FM radio for a AM/FM/XM aftermarket radio and a BCD996t in place of the factory radio.
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11-20-2012, 4:03 AM
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Any luck with your hole saw.....i use mine 2 times and the blade is junk......drilled maybe 5 holes and been thru 2 cutters...
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I did at first as well, trick is to go very slow. I've gotten to the point now where drilling a hole takes me about 5-10 minutes. Take it slow, very light pressure and plenty of WD40, that'll increase your tip life quite a bit. 
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11-20-2012, 4:14 PM
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Good Job,looks like you took your time
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11-21-2012, 7:39 AM
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Good Job,looks like you took your time
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11-21-2012, 8:05 PM
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I've drilled 16 holes with my current Antenex hole saw and works great!
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