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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Nov 20, 2008 22:31:58 GMT -5
How many of you have worked on a radio setup mounted on a wheel chair? I have a friend that has muscular distrophy and was forced into a nursing home about a month ago. He has an electric wheel chair with a 23 channel mobile radio ( I didn't pay any attention to the model of the radio) mounted on it with a 2 1/2 to 3 foot long firestick antenna bolted to the frame of the right side arm rest. Yesterday he lost transmit and receive. He braves the cold weather and drives the thing outside and talks to the locals. He said that he fiddled with the coax and got intermittant operation so today I made up a nine foot length of RG8X coax with stranded center and went there. He had about seven feet of cheap RG 58 with the center conductor being solid wire and I found that it had broken inside the PL259 connector at the radio end. I replaced the coax and he's back on the air with an increased signal of about one DB and better modulation. I was careful not to coil the excess coax and end up with some kind of balun so I zig zagged the excess here and there and held it down with wire ties. He can cover about a 10 mile radius believe it or not because the place is high up on top of a hill. I drew a crowd of residents of the nursing home. It was pretty wild and a different experience for me!
Tombstone
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Post by hillbilly1987 on Nov 23, 2008 22:50:32 GMT -5
wow that is kool i have never heard of that
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