The Quarky Engineer

Getting closer.

HF now installed. I don’t often do HF while actually driving, so I opted to put the mobile HF radio (706mkiig) ,antenna tuner, and interface under the rear floor. The front display on the HF radio does come off and can be used remotely, but most of the time I’m using it I’ll be sitting somewhere. I still need to mount a Raspberry PI back there to run Direwolf so I can do APRS over HF. 100W is plenty in a limited rig like this, and I also carry a wire antenna and a superantenna for remote site setup.

I did run a dedicate power from the battery to the rear tray, so plenty of capacity there.

VHF radio is also installed now and connected to the front antenna. That Yaesu has a nice display, and is very easy to read and use. Built in GPS and APRS is nice too.

Day 1 – Install some radio gear. 1/2 done.

2m/440 w/APRS upfront, 20m and 40m HF in the back.

Now that is a ladder.

Bigger meat for the Suburban.

Thanks to my friend Clark for recommended this GeoChron 4K. It looks fantastic on the 77″ LG OLED.

It is a small device that plugs into the back of the TV in an HDMI port. It displays all kinds of cool overlaid data like satellites, weather, airplanes, etc.