[OZAPRS] Silly antenna mount question

Wed Jun 14 23:09:08 EST 2006

Hi,
We have stock of all the antenna accessories mentioned including the
adaptor
from so239 to 5/16 etc,
Regards
Brenton
VK5BM

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-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 9:58 PM
To: 'VK / ZL APRS Users'
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Silly antenna mount question

Hi Damien,

I can't really comment on the madness question, however it sounds like you
need an SO-239 mobile antenna base.

Dick Smiths used to sell them as separate parts, but now you have to buy
an
assembly with 3.6m of "low loss" RG-58C/U attached...  part number D4036,
A$37 :

http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/D4036

Quite useful really...  makes it easy to get RF out of the vehicle to an
external antenna on field day!  :-)

(They also used to sell an adaptor that screwed onto the SO-239 base, and
presented a standard 5/16" thread, so you could use your existing antennas
on the base, as well...  can't see it anymore.  Anyone know a source of
these?)

Hope this helps.

73

Chris
vk6kch

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr
Sent: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 8:21 PM
To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
Subject: [OZAPRS] Silly antenna mount question

Howdy Folks,

Heading down to Melbourne for a job this weekend, so I thought I'd finally
get my act together, get the old MFJ working again (a solid thump brought
it
back to life - guessing there's a dry joint there somewhere), plug it into
the old 2m handheld I bought for the task a couple of years back, set that
up for the iGate, and then reclaim my TH-D7A and throw it into the Hilux
alongside my FT8100R..  Which meant buying an antenna for it, as lord
knows
where my second 2/70 antenna went (2 years without a car meant all my
antennas went into storage, and having moved house since, well, lots of
stuff is missing).  So I ordered the cheapest, highest gain dual-band
antenna that andrews had in stock, and got them to express post it down to
me (severe props, phoned friday arvo, it arrived today, not bad with a
long
weekend in the middle :).

Wasn't quite what I expected, was expecting the old fibreglass rod with
braid over it with a few coils in between, but it's actually a number of
lengths of rod with little joiners in between - will be interesting to see
how it handles getting caught on trees, etc, while I'm out bush..  Anyhow,
went to mount it up to the mount I'd already cabled up on the bullbar.. At
which point I went 'what the ****?' and got confused..  Rather than having
the normal screw thread in the bottom that just goes on a standard cb/ham
antenna mount from DSE (D4056), it has what almost looks like a PL-259???

Am I going mad, or is that actually a PL-259 in the base of the antenna,
and
I now need to try and find some kind of SO-259 antenna mount to mount the
thing?

Regards,

Damien
VK2TDG/VK2DGJ

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