Hmmm. I may see about picking that up.Get it! Buy it now! Then tell us what you really think of it. Here is where I bought mine, its the latest version and they include the programming cable. AnyTone AT-5555N II 10 Meter Radio with AM/FM/SSB/PA/CTCSS/DCS 60W US Seller | eBay
Get it! Buy it now! Then tell us what you really think of it. Here is where I bought mine, its the latest version and they include the programming cable. AnyTone AT-5555N II 10 Meter Radio with AM/FM/SSB/PA/CTCSS/DCS 60W US Seller | eBay
Yes I have lots of hash/noise constantly. Worse on some days than others. Better radio would be in consideration.
There is metal up behind radio cubby but would be hars to get at with drill. Running cables is okay, but madr easier undoing screws around map lights. Paneling on pillars just pops off, run cable and stuff in along windshield. Feeding into the cubby is tricky but following the center where the curtain rails meet there is path into cubby.
Ha! Glad I ran into you, fella. I tried it the hard way years back and never again. (Tried going into console from higher up; major pinch points).
Now let’s see what sort of magician you really are you can fit up there what @prcguy claims is the bees knees for hash:
CMC-130-3K 1-30MHz
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I can likely make that fit in cubby, without cutting anything, heh.
Right under steering wheel there is blanks for air lines, firewall pass-through. I ran my cables through those and up pillars.
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Here’s the HIRSCHMANN Thin Film Antenna by which Freightliner cursed us with the banana beer of their affirmative-action “engineer” hires. (Above windshield).
Receive-only. “Maybe” a mile TX. Like wearing an N95. 45W TX gets nothing (on the rental car roof, a SIRIO 5000 was walking the dog 3-5/miles all day long over the same terrain and time-of-day from otherwise the same radio rig).
Grabbed a new 18’ WILSON FME-ended jumper from the local Loves yesterday inbound to the house. My routing is thru door electrics harness and across floor “baseboard” to passenger seat.
— Found the power harness to connect to the fuse panel mains I’d made five years ago (10-2 ANCOR).
— Set aside the PALOMAR ENGINEERS FSB-31-1-1 Mix 31 Ferrite snap over I’d used in last two trucks to control noise over the extra-long DC power leads we get stuck with in big trucks.
Ferrite Core Products - Ferrite Core Products - Palomar Engineers®
Can’t hurt to try snap-over ferrites at each end of every cable or jumper. An experiment worth the small expense.
I don’t have to run the inverter to power the refrigerator. If you do, look at installing this winding Pos + Neg thru it.
DCCF-3 Toroid Ring
This worked to kill compressor noise on a portable refrigerator/freezer chest I used to carry along. Would totally blank TX/RX.
Am taking along both a single 6’ & 7’ Skipshooter when I leave. Dual antennas next time. The KL-203 90W is suited to a single antenna pretty well.
Most of the time spent at home on this will be with more RF Bonds. I’ll try to find existing bolts I can back out to slip some braid underneath.
What interference have you noted with the reefer unit running? I had an older ThermoKing on last job (dedicated; quiet enough I didn’t notice), this time it’s all Carrier units, D&H.
What interference have you noted with APU running? I’m thinking this can be a simple enough set of bonds chassis-to-frame.
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Ferrite products from Palomar are a bit more expensive than others. One of the cheapest places I've found is Pro Audio Engineering where the FSB31-1-1 one inch ID snap on is $19.50 from Palomar, its $15.25 from Pro Audio Engineering. The Palomar DCCF-3 is 39.95 from Palomar and the same item from Pro Audio is $26.25. Here is a link to Pro Audio Engineering. Fair-Rite 1.01″ ID Ferrite Snap-It Core - Pro Audio Engineering
I use them as service and questions answered has been great. The site also has a fair amount of tech advice.
Other sources are nice to have. Thx.
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I can likely make that fit in cubby, without cutting anything, heh.
Right under steering wheel there is blanks for air lines, firewall pass-through. I ran my cables through those and up pillars.