On Jun 8, 3:41*pm, dave wrote:


Have a receiver type trailer hitch installed.

Nothing to attach one to unless you installed
some kind of frame underneath the rear of the car.
There is nothing underneath except the bottom
of the trunk floor if I remember right.
But even if I could mount a hitch mount, I'm not
sure how happy I would be with it.
Generally, that's about as bad a place to mount
an antenna as you can find.
The one method I might consider would be a trunk
lip mount. And even that makes me paranoid as
I'm worried the stress of the antenna whipping
back and forth will warp the trunk lid after a
period of time. The metal is pretty thin on that car.
"Toyota Corolla".
I've just been taking my radio with me, and using
the antenna's I have at the site.
But now even more great news.. My 706mk2g
has been acting squirrely. 440 went out on it,
and I think the band switching diodes or transisters
blew up. I used it a while with no 440 and was
ok, but now it's acting weird, locking up, etc..
So it's sick and is gonna have to visit the radio doc.
I don't think I want to mess with it. I've fixed most
my own rigs in the past, but I don't think I want to
mess with that thing. So I'm gonna send it off.
I need to find me another HF mobile backup rig...
The 706 is the only 12v HF rig I've got right now.
Well.. I do have an old IC 730, but the display
board is out.