Progress with new radio.
I decided to just drill holes instead of modifying the thumb wheel mounts this time around.
Made a bottom plate to mount battery and amps. Amps ended up not fitting well after I heated up the plate and bent it up to angle the antenna up a little. I did a quick dirty mount on back of the tablet mount for now for testing.
I had to go back down to the rig in south Texas for a few weeks again. I'm gonna keep working on a solution to mount amps on the tray. May just need to make a longer tray so I can mount them on top of it between antenna and radio.
New cables are ordered now that I know what lengths and fittings I need to clean it up.
Still too windy/rainy here to test long range. Maybe tomorrow the wind will lay down enough to test it out.
I was worried about the Anker 13400 power bank because when I was testing with the amps it was shutting off power to the amps as part of its overcharge safety feature. Fortunately as long as the radio is on and the amps are using power the power bank stays on and there is no issue.
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