The mobile installation worked great during our trip to Gatlinburg. I mostly worked PSK31 and JT65 while mobile. I’ll tell you that keeping a lengthy QSO going while traveling down the road can be tricky, but a lot of fun. I logged contacts throughout central Europe and a few state-side contacts as well.
Due to the location of our suite, my Antenna situation was extremely limited and exhibited poor performance. So the only real operating I was able to do was during the trip down and up.
All in all, I’ll call my first venture into mobile HF a success and a lot of fun. I’m going to work on figuring out a more permanent antenna mount and getting rid of the mag-mount I’m using now. I also need to install a couple more NMO mounts to support he APRS radio, etc.
