Amateur radio questions and answers

Cool! I dunno if this is gonna kinda duplicate the CB forum, accessible from the main page though. Lotta hams post in there (including me).
73,
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Hey K4EMP, I a licensed ham operator looking to get into trucking. I trying to decide with which company I want to take paid training with. I'm limited on funds so I can't come out of pocket. Right now I'm leaning towards swift. after i finish with the mentor and go solo is it possible to put a 2 meter mobile in the truck? Do you know of any other drivers that have 2M in the truck?


Thanks,
Keith KF5CTE

 

Of course you can have a 2-meter in the truck. You can have an HF rig in the truck too. No laws at all against it. Just be sure to have a copy of your license with you.

 

An HF rig would be nice once I get my general, the only thing I can't really figure out though would be using an antenna tuner while driving since thats the only way I can see having one antenna and an hf rig in the truck.

 

I guess an auto tuner would work though now that I think about it.

 

If you do not have an HF radio you could get the YAESU
FT-857D and the active tunning antenna for it. I have a couple of friends that have this and really like it. Besides HF it also does 2 and 6 meters and 440.

 

One thing I would NOT recommend this morning - Making contact with a ham operator in Japan and ask him; "What's shakin'."

Yeah, I know that is bad. I'll go back to my local 2 meter now.

73

 

Thats bad. Funny but bad!!! LOL!!!!