Use Your Mobile Station as a Base Antenna Platform

摘要

A large number of amateurs are limited in their operating capabilities by restrictions of various sorts on outdoor antennas. There has been considerable discussion in QST and elsewhere on how to overcome this limitation and I am proposing yet another approach. Many amateurs, with and without antenna restrictions, enjoy HF operation from their vehicles. There is little argument that in most cases the mobile station is a step up from the usual indoor antenna. In addition to better coverage, you are farther away from the RFI of every neighbor's plasma TV or fish tank circulator. Unfortunately, spending an evening operating from the mobile rig in the driveway is a sure invitation to disaster -either from running the vehicle battery down, or if the motor is running, from asphyxiation or carbon monoxide poisoning.