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VK6FZUK wrote: On another note i should be in a position to start stocking the mobile and base antennas shortly along with ICOM radios. Now i just stock commercial gear including coax and connectors but will be moving into amateur gear at the start of March.

That's great! It'll be just awesome to have such a local dealer

Hello from Denmark.

My SG clone is starting to rust where as a mates original is fine.

meg wrote:

VK6FZUK wrote: On another note i should be in a position to start stocking the mobile and base antennas shortly along with ICOM radios. Now i just stock commercial gear including coax and connectors but will be moving into amateur gear at the start of March.

That's great! It'll be just awesome to have such a local dealer

Thanks Meg, Has been a long time coming.

Decided to go into the HAM trade as there seems to be a bit of a gap, especially in antennas, coax and connectors. Seeing that i keep it commercially i thought it would be a good idea to offer it to HAM's at a discounted rate, along with installation services etc.

See how it goes!

Good news Danny (and congrats on the full call as well)

VK6ZMS wrote:Hello from Denmark.

My SG clone is starting to rust where as a mates original is fine.

As is Zebedee's, especially around the screw holes if I remember... possibly the screws are low grade stainless. I guess the clones are a good idea if you have a habit of running them into trees or garages.
Have a good holiday and hope you get some good signals from ZL!

Tyranus wrote:So to find your car we look for a QRFB license plate with loads of antenna's??

Who says I have QRFB plates huh?

ON another note.. anyone here done a radio install on a VE Commodore before?

Just a guess. I seem to remember you commenting on the cost of the license registrations between the QFRB and BFS plates.

Nope, but happy to come help if no one else has.

These are good for remote head & mic mounting (along with mobile phones, PDAs, GPS etc) Select your make and model and voilá... instant mounting solutions...

http://www.holdmyphone.com.au/index.php ... ddlModels=

Fastlane - I'll let you know when I come to town next and you can see how I've done it in my Bitsaremissing....

Fastlane wrote:
Who says I have QRFB plates huh?

ON another note.. anyone here done a radio install on a VE Commodore before?

Hi Fastlane, Done plenty of installs in VE commodores when they were the current QLD Police vehicles.

What are you trying to install?

Finally some pictures of my setup:

Sometimes just 1 radio isnt enough. I need a bigger car!!!

WPXZBP wrote:These are good for remote head & mic mounting (along with mobile phones, PDAs, GPS etc) Select your make and model and voilá... instant mounting solutions...

http://www.holdmyphone.com.au/index.php ... ddlModels=

I have a couple of these for my iPod and mobile phone already. They are damn pricey but work well!

VK6ZUK wrote:Hi Fastlane, Done plenty of installs in VE commodores when they were the current QLD Police vehicles.

What are you trying to install?

That depends on what I end up buying. Currently eyeing off a FT-8900R plus as-yet-unknown antenna, with the catch of trying not to drill anything if I absolutely don't have to (perhaps with the exception of mounting the radio body).

(oh and before anyone says, I know you can't transmit on 6m with an f-call!).

Fastlane wrote: Currently eyeing off a FT-8900R

Noice!

Fastlane wrote: (oh and before anyone says, I know you can't transmit on 6m with an f-call!).

S'alright - Tyranus and I both have 6m-capable radios too. They leave the 6m part of the manual out till you upgrade your license

VK6ZUK wrote:Finally some pictures of my setup:

Sweet. Is that an 706 up top?

Nah its a IC-7000 up top. An IC-6063 IDAS Commercial under the stereo and a Simoco SRM9030 on the left.

Fastlane,

Have a look at the IC-7000 and the iphone, they on a bracket by holdmyphone. I genreally keep them in stock but only for newer commodores. I get them in overnight though.

For mobile i used to have the FT-7800, nice mobile dual bander for starting out! Its in the shack now.

Fastlane wrote:Currently eyeing off a FT-8900R plus as-yet-unknown antenna, with the catch of trying not to drill anything if I absolutely don't have to (perhaps with the exception of mounting the radio body).

(oh and before anyone says, I know you can't transmit on 6m with an f-call!).

I looked at that one for a while, but I decided against it because I want SSB on all the bands it does, so it would just be doubling up. Looks spiffy though.

VK6ZUK wrote:Nah its a IC-7000 up top.

Even sweeter. Similar style head. Want. You might be set up around the time I'm ready to buy. It'll be one of the two depending on my finance officer