[OZAPRS] Mobile installation question

[Andrew Rich]

I use a D700 - do APRS and chat on UHF every morning.

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Andrew Rich
Amateur radio callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec at tech-software.net <mailto:vk4tec at tech-software.net>
web: http://www.tech-software.net
Brisbane AUSTRALIA



-----Original Message-----
From: vk3xci at aanet.com.au [mailto:vk3xci at aanet.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 2:41 PM
To: VK / ZL APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Mobile installation question



G'day,
nice callsign, beats me someone else hadn't snaffled it.

I haven't really found an effective way, other than borrowing Ron VK3ECV
's Kenwood D 700, which doesn't entirely fill the bill,


Anyone?

Norm VK3XCI


> Hi, I'm pretty new to amateur radio and am looking to get my car set
> up for APRS. I'm unclear on what the best approach is though. Ideally
> I'd like to join in the daily commute chat while my APRS system is
> also doing its thing. Presumably I'll need two radios for that, one
> for APRS and one for voice. Will I have problems with front end
> overload or intermodulation distortion if I'm running two transceivers
> at once? What do other people do to avoid these issues?
>
> Is it best to avoid chatting on the 2m band entirely if my APRS
> transceiver is occasionally sending on it? Or can I use some kind of
> duplexer to avoid these issues?
>
> My second question - is it possible to set both transceivers up to
> operate on the same antenna? I'd like to keep the number of antennas
> down if I can.
>
> Am I completely off the track here? What is everyone else out there
doing?
>
> Thanks,
> Zik Saleeba
> VK3MHZ
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