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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Back in 1971 I was working for a Two Way Radio shop in Oklahoma City. One of our customers was the President of the ALPO Pet Food Company. He had a brand new Lincoln Town Car with an 80 W GE Exec Radio in it and anti-lock brakes with sensors around the wheel rims. He was giving Ford a rough time because his car had a little brake problem. If he keyed the transmitter while driving down the road the brakes engaged. If he keyed the transmitter while applying the brakes they released.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Ford had been trying to solve the problem for several months.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:14 PM Doug Gentges wrote;</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Really, Toyota, Really?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Local ham friend had a modern Cadillac with a high powered HF rig installed. All was well, except when he keyed up on 60m. The CAN bus ran at 5MHZ, and the RF got into it, causing an immediate shutdown of the entire vehicle. It required a battery cable disconnect/reconnect to get everything rebooted and running again.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Doug<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM RICHARD BARTH <<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" target="_blank">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=gmailmsg>I ran into a similar issue some 19 years ago, when I last bought a Toyota. The manual warned that a transmitter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>inside the car could cause it to misbehave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>There is a Yahoo group called "Toyotas only" that lets people ask questions about car problems, and I asked <o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>about putting a ham rig into the car. I got a response from a guy who was both a dealer maintenance tech<o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>and a ham, who said that for my model car the electrical cables ran down the center of the car, so just keep<o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>the ham wiring off to one side. It's worked fine ever since. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>Given that cars are a lot more complex these days, you may want to post a similar question to the group for<o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>whatever year and model your machine is.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=gmailmsg>Dick<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On January 24, 2017 at 8:31 AM Samudra Haque <<a href="mailto:samudra.haque@gmail.com" target="_blank">samudra.haque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I needed to lookup ways to hookup a ham radio mobile to my trusty 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid ... and came across... probably an old old article but the headline grabbed my attention.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;font-weight:normal'>Two-Way Radio (Ham Radio) Installation Is Dangerous<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://priuschat.com/threads/two-way-radio-ham-radio-installation-is-dangerous.110729/" target="_blank">https://priuschat.com/threads/two-way-radio-ham-radio-installation-is-dangerous.110729/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Tacos mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank">Tacos@amrad.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos" target="_blank">https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Tacos mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank">Tacos@amrad.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos" target="_blank">https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>