Dual Band Mobile HAM radio question

@tentoes

Although I am an amateur radio operator myself, this question might be better suited to a forum or group of folks that are all about amateur radio.  While we have multiple hams on this site, your responses might be somewhat limited because of the small number of hams that make up the entire forum.

How about a local club?  And going on this weekend is a Virtual Ham Radio get together, but that is probably winding down.  And next weekend, if you are anywhere near Huntsville, AL (probably slim odds of that!), there is an in person get together call the Huntsville Hamfest.  Good places to gather information.

Here it is more for possible help using Arduinos and the like with our ham radio gear.  My biggest project was building an antenna rotator control for my towers 10 element Yagi.

@codecage

Thank you, I understand.

hey tentoes... try qrz.com

there are forums there just for mobile, qrp, POTA, satellites and vhf/uhf

personally I use a FT60R. when mobiling I use a 30W amp and a dual band antenna

Also used it as a scanner, and have used it through the AO91 satellite from my backyard

and on the same satellite while in BC into Alaska

73, Bob VE3CGA

@ve3cga Time for some free education.

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@zander thanks, too bad, hope he found that site anyway

Bob

@ve3cga Thank you for the information!  I got a Yaesu mobile rig so I can put it in my vehicle as well as use it in my vehicle (It’s an FTM-300D).  I still don’t have it installed in my vehicle as I’ve had several in the last few years…..long story…..It’s sad to see how little the local bands are used around here in Portland….

Ooops….let me try again.  I got a Yaesu mobile rig so I can use it in my vehicle as well as use it as a home rig also to talk to the local repeaters…

@tentoes great and for some projects using arduino etc, check out the arduino forum on there

73, Bob

@ve3cga Thanks a million!  I will check it out!!

Thank you for the site reference!  That is down my usual alley!  I dont have any project going at the moment but this is where I like to come out and play!!...

@ve3cga I have been thinking of putting together a SDR-based radio sniffer for when I go fishing or camping just to see what's out there on the air, wherever I go.... I would use like a raspberry pi4 as the brains prob....

@tentoes 

when we go camping (tenting off grid) I either take my ft60R or a laptop with a RTLSDR v3 , v4 would also work

Using sdr# or sdr console or hdrsdr or if you like linux GQRX

rasbery pi would work too

but I think an old laptop with linux would be the cheapest, easy to setup & the most fuss free

I use an old dell lattitude E6410 (2G ram with a 500G ssd running tiny10,or linux on a 250G drive)

@ve3cga Yes I thank you for the recommendations!  I already have a few RPi4s sitting around, two USB SDR dongles with two inexpensive displays, but now that I think about it, a dedicated laptop just might be simpler.  I have seen a pretty wide-band discone antenna that could serve well in this purpose also.

Now that I think of it, the laptop idea sure sounds like the most inexpensive way to have that kind of functionality.  The mobile Yaesu I have has two tuners but it doesn’t have the cool (and highly useful) wide-band waterfall display that I have seen on dedicated software……I have a lot to think about….thanks for the ideas!!