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Greetings,
I quickly threw this mod together while on a trip down to Gold Beach, OR last summer. The night before we went on a 104 mile mailboat trip up the Rogue River, I put a 35W Mirage 2 meter amplifier in a Pelican case, drilled some holes for power and antenna jacks, and attached my Yaesu VX-8 HT and Comet SBB-1 antenna to the box.
The last picture shows it in action... I had no problems hitting repeaters well up the river, even while being drenched with water. :-)
Before the trip, I didn't have time to install an in-line bulkhead connector for the Anderson PowerPoles, but Coax Seal worked fine.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Thanks & 73,
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Left to right: HT input, power input, antenna output. I recently replaced the PowerPole bulkhead with one similar to this, but due to space issues I had to retain the round Bulgin PX0805 panel mount connector shown above. I really prefer the teardrop-shaped Bulgin PX0802's that I used for the radio jacks. Next time, I'll move the power jack to another side of the case... |
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Different view... I'm not a great photographer, but really like taking three quarter profile shots like this. After I took this picture, I replaced the UHF female-to-female (SO239) adapter with a shorter one that lets me screw on a cap when I'm not using the antenna. |
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I screwed two UHF male-to-male (PL259) adapters onto the amp's input and output jacks. I put a yellow snap-lock glass fuse holder on the positive power cord. |
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Here's my VX-8 HT propped up against the amp. As you can see, the local 146.780 frequency was pretty busy that day... |
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This was taken shortly after we got soaked going through some rapids. No problemo... |
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