Quote Originally Posted by kawiracer14 View Post
Bump for this thread and anyone thinking about HAM.

I just bought a new rig for the truck - does way more than I understand or will probably understand in the next year or so but I didn't want to spend a few hundred and then want to upgrade again next year.

So I got a Kenwood TM-D710G which has the built in GPS for APRS.
Will be hooked up to a Rigrunner 4004 which has 4 ports for power plus 2 USB ports for charging devices.
Also got a Cobra 75 WXST for off roading comms with non-hams

Will eventually be picking up a Dell Venue 8 Pro to do more APRS stuff as well as off roading GPS mapping.

Install is getting done Monday - I'll post some photos in the Photo area.

So... if anyone has the equipment to help me tune my antennas for CB and HAM I will happily reward them with beer or some 9 or 5.56 ammo for their time.
That's a great rig, the APRS stuff is pretty cool when you see how close other HAMs are to you and where they're going. It's also nice because my wife could watch one of the reporting websites to see where I was when I was traveling. I ended up selling my rig to rbeau30 after someone t-boned my car, and my new one didn't have any good way to mount it.