FRF's "Havoc in the Hills" Raptor Event - 9/26/13-9/29/13

[Dan06]

without sounding too naive.... Team FYF?? Is it safe to ask WTF is that?

Lol I'm with ya, good question. Probably some deeper meaning than what's been posted. It's obvious what the abbreviation stands for (Eff You Face), but something on the inside I'm sure.

 

[Sliver Raptor]

Lol I'm with ya, good question. Probably some deeper meaning than what's been posted. It's obvious what the abbreviation stands for (Eff You Face), but something on the inside I'm sure.

Eff You Fred aswell


See the last post I put.


FYF

 

[MTUH3]

Handheld worked fine for me on Snoball. set the radio in one of the 800 cupholders and it would fine. Personally I prefer a hard in mount radio, but I have not gotten that far yet.

 

[Kanakry]

Truck mount.

Shoot me a pm for the hookup!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[Huck]

You'll see a mixed bag of icom and whoever makes the tyt. Some handheld wouxanns etc. it's really personal choice.

Hard part might be finding a VHF handheld marine radio that you can key in frequencies. Most are channel based


I run an icom f5021 with a quarter wave antenna. It's been flawless. And the short antenna with the small 2.5" mag mount has only fallin off once. Really really low large branch

 

[Sliver Raptor]

Truck mount.

Shoot me a pm for the hookup!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

I will shoot you one when I am off work tomorrow buddy. Thanks for the reply




And yea I havent found many marine radios that can key freqs in which is the only reason why I need a hand held. Will do some searching this weekend. This one of the last big things I need.

 

[All The Way]

On a more on topic note. What are most of you experienced off roading guys using as far as radios. I am debating on a hand held vs a truck mounted. I have a boat and would like a hand held that is water proof so I can use it in my boat and for the run if possible.

One issue I think I would run into is keying up the radio while off roading which would mean that a mounted one might work better for me. What do you guys think? What are you running and why did you go with it? What are the good and the bad ect. Thanks in advance gents!

Well the max power a hand held can put out is 5 wafts. A decent mobile radio will put out 50 or better. With my setup I didn't have any issues with keying the radio, and thats with a PTT button on my finger with the hand held mic hanging where it normally goes. As a ham I use my radio every day,. I'm gonna be partial to those radios vs commercial radios where you need a computer to program it. Check out my install thread here --> http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f12/yaesu-ft-8800r-install-12575/

 

[Sliver Raptor]

Well the max power a hand held can put out is 5 wafts. A decent mobile radio will put out 50 or better. With my setup I didn't have any issues with keying the radio, and thats with a PTT button on my finger with the hand held mic hanging where it normally goes. As a ham I use my radio every day,. I'm gonna be partial to those radios vs commercial radios where you need a computer to program it. Check out my install thread here --> http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f12/yaesu-ft-8800r-install-12575/

Will do! Thanks man. Anyways way past the bed time. Night FRF.


/FYF

 

[RAPTURR]

I have handheld I got from Trey. Worked at Snoball just fine.
Picked up a Mic for it.
Have no desire to mount a radio.......yet

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[Kanakry]

You'll see a mixed bag of icom and whoever makes the tyt. Some handheld wouxanns etc. it's really personal choice.

TYT is a radio manufacturing company same as ICOM. The radios are made in Asia. Basically the same place 99.9% of all radios are now made.