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For interest sake, here are the photos of my installation. Key point, no extra holes in the car so it took a little bit of figuring to get it all together. The CODAN works a treat, antenna tunes up nicely and its great to have HF back in the car :-)
First picture is of the Kaymar bracket screwed to the back door. Only reason for this was to get the HF mount
Antenna in situ to see how the cables would pass through the door gap. No tape on the plugs as yet incase I had to remove it. Decided to put a mother of an earth braid on the antenna
Routing of the cables down the gap between teh door and car. As the braid was a little long, I screwed it to the bottom door hinge and then cable tied the other cables to it. Cables pass down between the bumper and the car. Under the top layer of electrical tape I used self amalgamating tape and sealed it all up.
Found a cable entry point under the car just behind the wheel well. Took a bit of fiddling to get all the cables through the gromet ie: Coax, CODAN control and 15 amp cable for rear door light
Another shot of the carrier with the wheel off
The finished mount on the door.
I thought about using corrugated black conduit over the braid but in the end the conduit would have probably worn through with the door opening and closing. IN real life it doesnt look bad at all. Earth works well as antenna tunes up with no issue. Listened to a couple of VKS guys this afternoon, bit of ABC from Tennant Creek and automated weather reports from Sydney.
Cheers..Pete
For interest sake, here are the photos of my installation. Key point, no extra holes in the car so it took a little bit of figuring to get it all together. The CODAN works a treat, antenna tunes up nicely and its great to have HF back in the car :-)
First picture is of the Kaymar bracket screwed to the back door. Only reason for this was to get the HF mount
Antenna in situ to see how the cables would pass through the door gap. No tape on the plugs as yet incase I had to remove it. Decided to put a mother of an earth braid on the antenna
Routing of the cables down the gap between teh door and car. As the braid was a little long, I screwed it to the bottom door hinge and then cable tied the other cables to it. Cables pass down between the bumper and the car. Under the top layer of electrical tape I used self amalgamating tape and sealed it all up.
Found a cable entry point under the car just behind the wheel well. Took a bit of fiddling to get all the cables through the gromet ie: Coax, CODAN control and 15 amp cable for rear door light
Another shot of the carrier with the wheel off
The finished mount on the door.
I thought about using corrugated black conduit over the braid but in the end the conduit would have probably worn through with the door opening and closing. IN real life it doesnt look bad at all. Earth works well as antenna tunes up with no issue. Listened to a couple of VKS guys this afternoon, bit of ABC from Tennant Creek and automated weather reports from Sydney.
Cheers..Pete
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