Really, Toyota, Really?

[Doug Gentges]

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.

Doug

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM RICHARD BARTH <w3hwn at comcast.net> wrote:

I ran into a similar issue some 19 years ago, when I last bought a Toyota.
The manual warned that a transmitter

inside the car could cause it to misbehave.


There is a Yahoo group called "Toyotas only" that lets people ask questions
about car problems, and I asked

about putting a ham rig into the car. I got a response from a guy who was
both a dealer maintenance tech

and a ham, who said that for my model car the electrical cables ran down
the center of the car, so just keep

the ham wiring off to one side. It's worked fine ever since.


Given that cars are a lot more complex these days, you may want to post a
similar question to the group for

whatever year and model your machine is.


Dick

On January 24, 2017 at 8:31 AM Samudra Haque <samudra.haque at gmail.com>
wrote:

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.

Two-Way Radio (Ham Radio) Installation Is Dangerous

https://priuschat.com/threads/two-way-radio-ham-radio-installation-is-dangerous.110729/
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