Improving your mobile VHF Station

Promoting all things Amateur Radio September 2024...
This month on HAM Talk, we have our typical banter and comments from our viewers, and Andrea provides a quick recap of contesting in the September VHF contest. Andrea K2EZ operated out of Marshal's K5QE {SK} large contest station, for what may be one of the last times it's on the air. N5XO shows how to improve your mobile VHF station {all works for HF too}.
2:50 Replacing JD with Fred the dinosaur . This months topics.
5:24 Viewer comments.
9:26 Watch for Andrea's reaction. LOL
10:59 Andrea #K2EZ contested with a sizable crew at #K5QE 's station, as #K5N. #pingjockey
16:16 Andrea... are there even HAM's toward the SE? lol
18:15 Improving your mobile station.
27:58 Adding a #farad capacitor
31:35 Bonding straps
33:48 #MagMount bonding
37:56 WHERE to mount onto your vehicle
44:18 Greg admits to hogging the airwaves. LOL
Antenna 1, 2 ,3 ... cha ching!!
46:36 dealing with magnetic mounts and a trick that may help.
48:44 Feedline loss, #ultraflex 13500
51:07 Back to banter and dumb things
58:05 Final thoughts
1:00:58 Halloween costumes. NO sexy HAM's.
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[@dalericketson6461]

Hi yall, great video I will check it out a few times.

[@w3tua]

The best improvements I've made to my mobile setup over the years are--1. Bond all metal surfaces to one another to lower noise and 2. Drill a hole to mount an NMO connector on top of the roof of my truck. Magnet-mounts are convenient but don't work nearly as well. I do have a rover system with rotatable beams for weak signal as well. 73 DE WA5RR

[@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup]

I agree with you 100% - Which is what I covered regarding bonding the body and bed together and on the frame. I've seen a noticeable improving with such. I am not a fan of mag mounts at all, but some times a needed evil. The good news is it's not hard to bond them electrically to the car body at the radio location. The problem with drilling it's, just something I am hard pressed to drill a hole in a 70K plus car/truck and it's also out of the realm for many to do. Then you have cases like my and my wife's truck where we are 90% glass on our roof.
Thanks for the comments.

[@mikemcdonald5147]

I got ten dollars on Andrea taking greg LOL :)

[@TheHAMMan-bs4ks]

I'll not bet against that :)