Installing mobile ham gear in today's vehicles - the word from GM

Submitted by wc0v on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:11pm.

Excerpts from the ICOM reflector:

After being told absolutely NO by the local dealer, I bit the bullet and had a local two-way radio shop run power, install 5 NMO mounts plus coax, 2 trunk lip mounts, and the coax plus control wires for a Tarheel screwdriver. Total tab: $600. They were happy to do it, and knew how. The local Toyota dealer wouldn't touch the job.

And here's a great link to GM's notes on installing gear:

http://service.gm.com/techlineinfo/radio.html

Only thing to include that they didn't is a fuse in the negative 12 vdc lead as well as the positive lead.

I have come to treasure those three little words: HIRE IT DONE!

73, Carl WCØV

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location of the above dealer

Submitted by wc0v on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 1:10pm.

I replied offline to the above enqueries. for some reason, email didn't reach me. For others, the comments were not mine, they were taken from the Icom Archives Reflector, http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/icom/.

Sorry for the confusion.

73, WCØV

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local two-way radio shop

Submitted by ke7faq on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 11:07pm.

I see you are not taking emails, so I will post here instead.

What was the name on the shop you had do the install of the NMO mounts, coax, 12v power runs etc. Can you provide a phone number also.

Thanks,
John

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Mobile Installation

Submitted by K5KKV on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 9:06pm.

Since you apparently are not accepting e-mails, maybe you could tell me by private e-mail the name of the shop that did your installation.
The charge you mentioned for all of the stuff they did seems very, very reasonable.

Jim Lee
K5KKV

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