I have now a Wagon R car. It has two front air bags.
Are they likely to be set off by ten watts at 145MHz.
Is it safe to have mobile amateur radio and air bags?

73 de Pete g4egq



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"Gwendoline Biggadike" wrote in message
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I have now a Wagon R car. It has two front air bags.
Are they likely to be set off by ten watts at 145MHz.
Is it safe to have mobile amateur radio and air bags?

73 de Pete g4egq

Hi Pete.

I have used various handies upto 10w output on 2meters and my IC2800 puts
out 50ish on 2 (ant mounted on the roof about 6cm from one of the bags
explosives!) and my Toyota Yaris has had no problems with any of its 9
airbags (10 if you count the missus!) so I would say go ahead!

73 Brian MW0GKX

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:51:12 GMT, "Gwendoline Biggadike"
wrote:

I have now a Wagon R car. It has two front air bags.
Are they likely to be set off by ten watts at 145MHz.
Is it safe to have mobile amateur radio and air bags?

73 de Pete g4egq


Never even thought about it.
I run 50 or 160 out on 2-meters and 35 watts on 440 in a Toyota
4-Runner. The dealer ran the wiring for me.
My wife's set up in the Prius is a Kenwood TM-V7A with 50 out on 144
and 35 on 440.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com