In the mid to late 80's when computers were taking over in vehicles there
were all sorts of 2 way radio problems reported in QST and commercial
magazines. Even police radios caused problems.
I remember Toyota was regularly mentioned in ham publications as being
particularly hard to deal with.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall, Randy" <Randy.Randall@healthall.com>
To: "'Rob Stampfli'" <rob@cboh.org>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Good engineering...More Car Computer Horror Stories
>I was one of those that had issues with VOA in Mason Ohio. My 89 Dodge
>Dakota would have an anti-lock brake failure while driving next to the
>transmitter site while they were transmitting. It was not a one off
>problem but repeatable. Dodge was no help other than offering to replace
>the anti-lock computer for $350.00!
>
> Randy
>
>
> "In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice they're
> not."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Rob Stampfli
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:40 PM
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Good engineering...More Car Computer Horror Stories
>
>
> Interesting. I've heard that similar phenomena (and worse) occurred
> with regularity back when the VOA was running lots of power from their
> transmitters near Cincinnati, and I had a car once that lit the "Rear
> light out" lamp when I transmitted on 2m at high power.
>
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