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7th Jan 2019, 4:18 pm

I tried amateur radio on my bike (FT-857 HF/VHF/UHF with auto tuner) it worked well but I found myself much to busy riding the bike to use it. Did get a contact to south France on 20m one afternoon. I did find that 20W or so of carrier on 430MHz dumps mobile phones used by silly drivers. The 390k looks much too high, 390 ohms more like to 'press' the PTT.

7th Jan 2019, 4:18 pm	#3
Guest Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Amateur radio interfacing I tried amateur radio on my bike (FT-857 HF/VHF/UHF with auto tuner) it worked well but I found myself much to busy riding the bike to use it. Did get a contact to south France on 20m one afternoon. I did find that 20W or so of carrier on 430MHz dumps mobile phones used by silly drivers. The 390k looks much too high, 390 ohms more like to 'press' the PTT.