{"id":1396,"date":"2012-05-07T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k7nvh.com\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-05-07T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:46:10","slug":"ic-706mkii-g-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"IC-706MKII-G Install"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordered the head extension cable and a mounting bracket for my Icom 706MKII-G last week, and they showed up in the mail on Saturday, so I had a good time on saturday afternoon figuring out how to get the rig mounted in my new car.<\/p>\n

The main issue was finding a good space on\/near the dash for the head. Unfortunately, due to the large size of the 706 head, and restrictions on where I can place it due to not wanting to put it in front of any of the air bags, I eventually came to the conclusion that the dash wasn’t right right spot for it.<\/p>\n

Thought about putting it up in the sunglasses holder, and the head fit there, but none of the cables connecting to it would. Plus how am I gonna get the cables up there anyway.<\/p>\n

Eventually I found that it fit nicely with lots of room for cables and whatnot inside the center console\/arm rest box. Then I can run the cable under the rear seats and under the floor of the trunk to where I’d mount the body of the radio.<\/p>\n

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Then came the issue of powering the radio. I thought about how I could run power to the rear of the car from the battery, and have it look nice (seeing as it’s a shiny new car). Short of paying a professional who knows how to get the thousand trim pieces off between the battery and the cargo area, there wasn’t a whole lot I was willing to do. Though, I remembered that there’s an accessory outlet in the cargo area. It wouldn’t be able to supply enough power for transmit, but if I used it to charge a couple of small Sealed Lead Acid UPS batteries, the batteries could provide the transmit current, and the accessory outlet to supply the receive current and recharge the batteries.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, it seems to be working great, so now I’m all set to be operating mobile in my new car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordered the head extension cable and a mounting bracket for my Icom 706MKII-G last week, and they showed up in the mail on Saturday, so I had a good time on saturday afternoon figuring out how to get the rig … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}