[OZAPRS] Silly antenna mount question

[Rendrag]

Ahhhh, awesome - DSE search didn't help me any, but that link shows that
the
woden powerhouse (a whopping 2 blocks away) has them in stock - will go
grab
one in the morning (leaving for melb first thing friday morning (following
a
freight truck full of servers down..), so was hoping like heck it'd be an
easy to get thing :), and fit it up :)

Cheers,

Damien

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hill" <chris.hill at crhtelnet.com.au>
To: "'VK / ZL APRS Users'" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:27 PM
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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