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@ftg I admire someone so eager to get on the air that they would do this. I have seen people paralyze themselves trying to do everything the Right Way. Sometimes you have to feed the enthusiasm beast while it's still hungry.
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@weezmgk
Funnier still, that image is from 2024 and the car still has that installation the last time I saw it.
The dude was convinced that it would not pass inspections anyway, so why not?
Well, it sure did pass.
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@W6KME
I wonder if he still runs the Elecraft K3 mobile or if he's back to he FT-897 he had previously.
The last time I saw that setup he had a K3 on the passenger seat, on a specially built rack.
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@ftg Somehow, knowing this ham can afford an Elecraft and still just screwed the antenna to the car makes it just a little bit nicer. It's not my car, right?
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@W6KME
It makes it funnier, if nothing else.
I really did ask him more or less "dude, what the fuck, why?" and the answer was that it's a piece of shit rustbucket of a car and it's he's so he'll do what he wants.
And that it works well on 20m and with the extra coil looped in tunes up usably on 80m.
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@ftg I've made more than my share of janky mods and cobbles over the years. Couple of years ago I wanted roof racks on my Mercedes that I could actually trust with a sea kayak...so took out the headliner, drilled holed in the roof and bolted some pipes on. Put the roofliner back after re-upholstering it too. Some people were horrified, but it kept the water out and kept the boats on the car. Looked great from 4' or more away.
It cost about $690 less than a $700 Thule kayak rack too.
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