Any Ham Radio Operators Own Spyders?

[SpyderCruiser]

Hi All,
Just wondering if any of you are Ham Radio Operators? My Wife, Son and I are. Do any of you have your ham radio portable, VHF/UHF connected to the spyders audio system?

Take Care,
Louie KA2PFL

 

[cuznjohn]

there are a few if i remember correctly

 

[SpyderAnn01]

My dad was a HAM, WA9JZK, but he died in 1981. Brings back memories.

 

[redflasher]

KB0XR-licensed first in 1959. I have a hand held in the trunk. Too busy avoiding traffic to talk on it. If I had something external on the Spyder, it would be stolen the minute I was out of sight of it.

 

[Mr. White]

Hi All,
Just wondering if any of you are Ham Radio Operators? My Wife, Son and I are. Do any of you have your ham radio portable, VHF/UHF connected to the spyders audio system?

Take Care,
Louie KA2PFL

USAF Radio Operators school in 1952, flew radio on AF cargo planes during Korean War and afterward. Got out and went into the reserves, went to school, got my commission, went back in until 1981, fun times (mostly). Saw the world.....say thanks for what all of us have, as the worse we have is better than the best in many parts of this world.....No equiptment on my Spyder as I do mostly HF. 73's

George Lewis, WB5WFW :spyder2:

 

[Spacetrucker]

Yes I have my ham radio on my bike. Works great and talk all day long on Mars, and on 444.025 world wide via Internet on my bike.

 

[WA5VHU]

WA5VHU Here...

I use a Yaesu VX-8 talkie on our RT, with a temporary pipe mount clamped to the trailer hitch in the back that I use with my bicycle antenna which is a 2m/70cm 1/2 wave antenna on a 3 foot fiberglass mast to get the antenna up in the clear. I also have a Yaesu FTM-10 mobile radio and stick-on antenna mount to go where the CB antenna would go. I haven't gotten around to installing the FTM-10 yet.

Both of these radios have Bluetooth so I can link them up with my Sena 20s intercom in my helmet.


73,
Charles

 

[Don in E Texas]

Family of Hams

Dad (SK) ham - his call is now my brothers: N5ET (has 2014 RT-L)

Wife: WB5LXH

Me: K5IEC

No ham gear on Spyder --- enough to do to safely drive let along morse code on 20 meters.

 

[ironbuttdean]

2 meter

N6UOV here. Have only 2 meter capabilities at this point. Joining the local ARES club next weekend. Trying to figure out how to get gear onto the RT. Probably will use a HT and RAM mounts.

 

[Craignet]

Hi all;

N6CRB here in Bakersfield. Yeah I know, Where???

 

[OJ UK]

Bakersfield is a well known place!

Well for anyone who watched the movie 'Short Circuit' anyway!

de G1XUE didah didahdit dahdidah :roflblack:

 

[hognut]

WB6YXA in Grants Pass, OR. I do not have a rig on the Spyder yet. I only have ridden 900 miles so far so am still concentrating on ridding.
73's

 

[Spacetrucker]

Send a pm with show and tell you how I put my rig on my 2014. .

 

[Craignet]

Well for anyone who watched the movie 'Short Circuit' anyway!

de G1XUE didah didahdit dahdidah :roflblack:

Loved that move.

Newton Crosby: Where are you from, anyway?
Ben Jabituya: Bakersfield, originally.
Newton Crosby: No, I mean your ancestors.
Ben Jabituya: Oh, them. Pittsburgh.

 

[SpyderCruiser]

Wow,
Glad to see some other Spyderlovers are "Radio Active" :2thumbs:. Thank you all for replying.

I would like to use my VX7 with my Spyder and would like to use the PTT button on the left grip. Has anyone done that? Does anyone have a diagram of the radio harness? Is the PTT line from the button just a simple ground?

I will not have my new Spyder until Feb so cannot probe around with my DMM yet. I like Charlie's idea of using a Bluetooth transceiver, but would still like to use the Spyders PTT (vox just sucks sometimes). I have the Sena 20 so will be able to multitask.

73's KA2PFL Louie

 

[wfdfirech3]

KD0HGO

I carry around a VX8 in the back trunk of my 2014 RT S but I don't have a radio mounted or a antenna... Yet

 

[Web Runner]

KB5EZQ here,
I've thought about mounting my Yaesu 727R, but have not moved forward with it.

 

[SpyderCruiser]

KB5EZQ here,
I've thought about mounting my Yaesu 727R, but have not moved forward with it.

Wow,
Brings back memories. :shocked: That was the first dual band handheld made. I still have mine. Took it to Dayton in 87. The battery died long ago but was running it on 12V. I will have to dig it out and see if it still works.


73's Louie KA2PFL

 

[Spyder ri]

I think I have a ham radio app for my iPhone [emoji1]

 

[sduskin]

NE5SD

I have only been a ham for 3-1/2 yrs. My dad (NE5S) has been a ham since before I was born.

I have been gathering components and I am building a go-kit using an Icom 706 Mk2 G thru an LG tuner and an off-center fed dipole (with 4:1 balun) for 160m thru 6m SSB operations for Field Day or the OK QSO party. I am shooting for something to fit in the frunk where all I had to do was open frunk, hang antenna, and be on-the-air.

No operations while actually moving. With Oklahoma cage drivers, I am at risk enough without contributing to the danger.

73
-NE5SD.
-Steve.