KC0ZQB Base Station Icom 746pro feeding a HGRV5 10-80 meter wire dipole

WBØN Dual band antenna storm damaged 2005

R-7000 after storm

For reasonably simple setup in a trunk, I added a Hershey Kiss mag mount antenna in the place of the standard rubber ducky, and have run power to my trunk, so no need to haul around a bunch of batteries most of the time either. The GPS receiver itself comes out of the front pocket and is mounted on the trunk lid right next to the mag mount antenna.

Ok, it might be better to put the TinyTraker3Plus and the tranciever in a container that makes it even harder to damage them.

I have a hip pack I picked up at radio shack some time ago, that just happens to have a handy pocket designed to hold a cell phone or radio, and almost everything else fits in the 'outside' pockets, leaving the main pocket available for battery power so I can take things for a walk. Handy for helping out on a walk or run, works well on a bike. etc. Not quite so useful in a car, but it might work o

Everything wired together, and a power supply added that can power everything up, and we are ready to pack things to go.

And as everyone knows, you need a collection of wires to connect everything together. The white barrel connectior is power for the radio. The Black 4 conductor plug is the microphone adapter. The 9-pin connector plugs into the TinyTraker4Plus. Pretty much everything else is power cabling. Standard automotive dc plugs and sockets. Purists may prefer Anderson Power Poles. That's their business. Ther

Between the radio and the GPS receiver will be some system to monitor the radio receiver to decide whether it is safe to transmit or not, as well as take in the NEMA strings from the GPS receiver. In this case a TinyTraker3Plus also provides power to the GPS receiver. It's primary mission in life though is to convert the information it gets from the GPS receiver into an APRS packet, convert that i

Add in a GPS Receiver. This is one is commonly considered a 'puck', though it is rectangular. It has a red light on the side that indicates whether it has locked into the GPS sattelites, and streams NEMA strings every second on a serial line.

Start with a radio tuned to 144.39 mhz, no tone. I have locked out the buttons and dials on my vx-150 HT.