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What if you bought a new car and

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the owner's manual told you you could
not install any communications or radio equipment whatsoever?

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I'm I might, I might return
the car myself. This is another

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Reddit article, and I love these
Reddit articles. They're so fun because they're

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like what the QRZ forum should be
in my opinion. So this guy posted

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and this is from rf ncc ron
in seven z M. There we go,

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right there. Okay. In November
of last year, I bought a

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twenty twenty four Toyota Prius l E. I always read the manual, read

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the manual to any new car.
To my surprise, I found that any

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installation of communications radio will avoid all
warranties. What I can't believe that Japan,

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with its big amount of amateur radio
operators, would design a car that

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avoids all installations. What a major
letdown. I've always operated mobile ever since

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my general license in nineteen eighty.
I'm now stuck. Unless I trade it

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in and take my losses, well, I would return the car. I

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mean, surely they have some sort
of grace period. I don't know.

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If your thinking about buying a hybrid
and want to operate radio, you better

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read its manual first. I also
purchased Toyota's long term warranty, so that's

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another four thousand dollars. I could
lose that in a trade if so.

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If I so choose, Toyota is
not my favorite car anymore. A loss

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for them run in seven z M. I'm sorry that that happened to you.

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Ron. I don't personally understand why
anyone would want a Prius, but

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that's me not trying to say anything
bad about it. I don't mind electric

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cars, I just don't understand the
Prius. I think that probably be like

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the last car I would ever want
as far as evs go. But that's

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that's my that's my personal opinion,
okay, And the first comments it's is

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one of the best ones. Uh
installation quote, so your workaround is just

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to not install, which I read
as a placement on a permanent basis as

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opposed to bringing it with you easily
somewhat easily removable. Given that I've seen

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more than a few really bad installs
and modern vehicles with a BMS, I

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think that a removal installation is a
good approach. Plenty of good info in

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these types of installs, so basically
a man pack and seat something like that.

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Here's a guy with a picture of
a mobile radio in his vehicle installation.

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I don't know where that is,
but yeah, that's that. That

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is kind of lame that a vehicle
manufacturer would prevent you or prohibit you from

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installing basically what you wanted into your
own vehicle. I understand the warranty thing,

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but if you had it professionally installed, maybe there should be a caveat

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in there having it professionally installed.
I don't know that that might be a

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thing. I read an article a
couple of years ago. I think it

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was about how AM radio did not
work in a Tesla and people were upset

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that AM radio was not working in
a Tesla, and I'm like, well,

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of course it doesn't. It's the
Tesla is probably an RFI amplifier.

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It's because of all the RFI.
An electric car produces a lot of RFI.

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You can find videos on YouTube about
how to install an HF radio and

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what extra steps you have to take
because a normal vehicle has a lot of

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RFI and a lot of engine noise
and a lot of this crap that produces

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noise inside of your HF radio.
But Tesla's don't even have AM radios because

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you can't hear it. And there
was some people upset about that, and

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I had two I had two thoughts
on that. Number One, who still

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listens to terrestrial AM radio? It
doesn't seem like something a Tesla owner would

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be interested in listening to satellite radio, sure terrestrial AM radio. I mean,

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does anyone listen to that? I
don't know. Two. Yeah,

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that just proves that Tesla needs to
upgrade their game on reducing RFI. Okay,

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so Tesla's are RFI noisy again,
most EV vehicles are p RFI noisy.

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I have seen several YouTube videos about
people installing HF radios in their evs

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and they had to take a few
extra steps because of all the RFI and

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the noise and the electrical components and
perhaps poor grounding on some battery installations.

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I don't know the best part about
this story. The best part about this

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story is that there was a follow
up. There was a follow up to

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that article that was posted like,
I don't know, like a month later,

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At the time of this recording,
saw the preus banning Hamry Radio post.

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Here's Mazda telling you where you can
place your antennas. L Well,

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so this is pretty cool right here. Your Mazda has been tested and certified

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with N r asterisk one ten regulation
as related to electoral magnetic compatibility radio frequency

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RF transmitter equipped cellular telephones, amateur
radio transmitters, et cetera. It actually

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says amateur radio's transmitters in their owner's
manual for a Mazda, I don't know

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which Mazda. The model this is
may only be fitted to your Mazda if

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they comply with the perimeter shown in
the table below. You. In our

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stands for United Nations regulation, it's
your responsibility to show that any equipment you

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have fitted complies with applicable local legislations. Have any equipment fitted by properly trained

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technicians, see this is what?
Okay? So have it professionally installed or

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have it installed correctly. Don't do
a haphazard job of it and just lay

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it on the seat and plug it
in the cigarette lighter or put a false

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ground somewhere. Okay. Really bad
installations sometimes. Do not mount any transceiver,

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microphone speakers to any other item in
the deployment path of the air bag

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system. Good advice, Good advice. Do not fasten aerial lead to original

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vehicle wiring, fuel pipes, or
brake pipes. Avoid running the aerial aerial

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Oh, the antenna, Okay,
the intenna lead parallel to the wire harness

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to the best extent possible. Keep
the aerial and power leads at least one

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hundred millimeters three point nine inches from
any electronic modules or air bags. Okay.

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Avoid using the cigar lighter. There
we go. It's a cigar lighter.

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Now very important. I want a
car with a cigar lighter. I'd

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be okay with that. Avoid using
the cigar lighter to or accessory socket as

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a power source for RF transmitting equipment. Yeah, that's actually good advice.

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This is very very good advice.
Okay. Down here it says twenty twenty

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three mos to three hatch. No
mention of HF though, And it has

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this this aerial position center right roof
over here on the right hand side of

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this page. Center of roof,
right rear, right of roof, rear

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left of roof, you know,
and it gives you frequencies from fifty megahertz

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up to two point four gigahertz maximum
power out and some other stuff you can't

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really see on the page. There
some actual some actual actual legit. How

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to install a radio and antenna in
your car from the Owner's Manual of Mazda.

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That is that is pretty cool.
I'm I'm I'm in favor of that.

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That's that's that's really fun stuff.
So back to the power out of

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the power socket or the cigar lighter
as they call it. Yeah, you

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don't want to do that typically because
a lot of radios pull more ampage than

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what the cigarette lighter adapter will allow. And I have personally found that plugging

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your radio in via cigarette lighter adapter
cause you to hear more engine or alternator

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noise in your radio, even on
VHF UHF most of the time, if

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you key up a VHF repeter,
once you let go of the mic and

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that squelch tail and courtesy tone or
maybe maybe id of the repeater when that

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is being received by your radio,
you might hear some alternator and wine noise

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in your in your radio while the
squelch is open and you're receiving signals from

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the repeater, or if someone else
is talking on the repeater and you're receiving

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it, you might hear some wine. And if you have your radio plugged

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in via cigarette lighter adapt or,
that might be why those are not grounded

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very well. Usually it doesn't have
a direct path to the battery and a

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direct path to ground, so it's
not as good as wiring up the radio

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with a direct positively directly to the
battery and the shortest ground lead to a

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good ground on the frame of the
car as the shortest lead as possible.

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So that is the thing. So
if you have wine in your radio,

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what is plugged in a cigarette lader? That could be why so, who

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here has an EV and what extra
steps have you put a radio in it?

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Have you put a radio in your
electric video? And if so,

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what extra steps did you take to
do that? I would like to know

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how you accomplished it. And I'd
like to see hey record a short video

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and email it to me. I'd
like to see that. Seventy three