[aprssig] VX-8 and Computer

[Mark Earle]

Besides, an HT is NOT a mobile radio. You must mount it cell phone 
holder style. Then the buttons are not accessable (say, FN on the side 
and a keypad button). The display is too small to read from the dash to 
the driver position.

The transmitter power is puny.

The receiver lacks front end that a "real" receiver would have, due to 
the small size of the radio.
 
If you don't mount it, you end up moving the HT, coax, and power cord at 
a minimum, to bring the HT to your face to talk.

If you do mount it, you have speaker, mic, power, coax to antenna, and 
aprs / gps wiring.

Then the UIView PC.

Consider this:

What if an airbag deploys, will any of your gear be in the way?

What if you, from 60, do a full force ABS active stop? Does any of your 
installation move???

Again - HT's are not mobile radios.

I have 4 radios installed - and it looks neat and secure.

GE Phoenix for APRS / conventional packet
Motorola Micor UHF voice
Icom IC-208H V/U voice
Kenwood TM3530A 222 voice

Another issue with HT and accessories as mobile - it must not be cig 
-lighter powered.. it should be on real power, fused on both sides of 
the fire wall, wires to battery, and so on.

Antennas should be through hole mounted, no mag mounts :) 

Mics must have a proper hangar - you don't want a loose mic underfoot, 
in the car seat mecanism, or under a pedal.

THINK before operating mobile.



Brian B. Riley wrote:
> nope, no access to the internal tnc. You might engineer a kluge to tap 
> the stream coming from the GPS, but it would be exactly that, a kluge! 
> Think of the VX8 as a sealed appliance.
>
> On Sep 5, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Arte Booten wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>     Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any way of using the 
>> Yaesu VX-8R
>> as a mobile APRS radio while running UI-View.  Either the GPS module 
>> itself or
>> the speaker/mic would be connected to the connector atop the radio, 
>> leaving no
>> place to connect it to a serial port.
>>
>>     However,  it seems the connector has far more pins than are being 
>> used by
>> either of those objects.  No doubt Vertex-Standard uses the VX-8's 
>> platform in
>> the same way it uses the VX-7/VX-150/etc. for different services,  so 
>> I wonder
>> if, in some other iteration, the VX-8 can utilize those pins  
>> (presumably with
>> an adapter) that would allow serial connection along with GPS and 
>> speaker-mic.
>> -- 
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