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Allodoxaphobia wrote:

What the OP needs to be concerned about is not so much the flexibility
of the feed line, but, rather, the sturdiness of the coax connector at
the HT. That 'joint' will take a lot of stress in such a mode of
operation. Not only will there be problems at the point where the coax
enters the male connector, but the large stresses on the female connector
will oft times ruin the internal attachment to the pc board.

I've also found that HTs are less than ideal for mobile ops for
another reason - squelch. Most of them do not have a separate squelch
knob - you have to go through a menu to change the squelch setting.
Not a good thing to do while driving - it's the sort of thing which
makes J. Random Cellphone User's distracted behavior seem downright
civilized.

Add to this the fairly wide-open nature of most HT's RF front ends,
(and the resulting sensitivity to intermod), and the amount of 2-meter
RF noise and birdies from cable leakage, etc., and you end up with a
bad mixture.

An HT with a magmount antenna will do in a pinch, but I don't feel
that it's a good long-term frequent-user solution in an urban area.

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