<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4145"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247">Yikes, Stephen! Well, my plan was to mount the ATAS on a trailer hitch ... as far away from the inverter as I could...but to test it first.</span></div><div><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247"></span></div><div><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247">I'm pretty good at copper foil encasing of boxes and grounding...but this sounds like a beast.</span></div><div><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247">I may be relegated to 2m and 70 cm...in which case I'll install my 2m/70cm/23cm triband instead. ;-)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4601" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247">Cheers,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4602" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247">Ev</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4603" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4247"></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4126" style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4125" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4127" class="y_msg_container"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4213" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4123" face="Arial" size="2"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4215"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4214" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2@aol.com><br><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4217"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4216" style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Where are you going to mount the antenna? Have you seen details of my <br clear="none">Prius installation at:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441797589495_4246" shape="rect" href="http://wa8lmf.net/mobile/prius" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.net/mobile/prius</a>> ?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If the 2007 is anything like the 2005 (If I recall correctly, 2007 was the same <br clear="none">generation as my 2005), the noise level from high-current DC-DC and DC-AC power <br clear="none">conversion is absolutely horrendous. HF and 6 are completely unusable.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Even on 2M, I had detectable though desense; i.e. noticeable effects on APRS RX <br clear="none">on my D700. (S-meter would go up about one bar with the engine running.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And this was with a no-ground-plane-required end-fed half-wave ant on 2M <br clear="none">(Diamond 770 2M/450 dual-bander). Don't even think of using a quarter-wave, <br clear="none">5/8ths wave or any other antenna configuration that depends on the body sheet <br clear="none">metal as a ground plane or counterpoise.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">This intractable noise problem is one of the main reasons I replaced my Prius <br clear="none">with a VW Jetta TDI diesel.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Details here: <<a shape="rect" href="http://wa8lmf.net/mobile" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.net/mobile</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_________________________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com<br clear="none">Skype: WA8LMF<br clear="none">EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br clear="none">Home Page: <a shape="rect" href="http://wa8lmf.net/" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps<br clear="none"> <<a shape="rect" href="http://wa8lmf.net/map" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.net/map</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF<br clear="none"> <<a shape="rect" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm</a><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt0732681739" id="yqtfd94747">><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>