Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
🔧 Ultimate Mobile Ham Radio Setup in a Ford F250 | Yaesu 891, FTM-500, Meshtastic, APRS, & Winlink 📡
Take a tour of my fully-equipped mobile ham radio shack installed in a Ford F250 truck, designed for off-grid communication, emergency preparedness, and DXing on the go! In this video, I walk through my complete mobile setup featuring:
📻 Yaesu FT-891 HF Radio – Reliable 100W portable HF rig for 10m–160m band ops📡 Yaesu FTM-500DR – Dual-band VHF/UHF with APRS and digital fusion capabilities📶 Meshtastic Node – LoRa mesh network integration for off-grid text messaging📨 Winlink RMS Express – Send & receive email over HF using VARA & digital modes
✅ Capabilities include:
• HF voice communication (SSB)
• VHF/UHF simplex and repeater ops
• APRS tracking & messaging
• Digital modes: Winlink email, VARA HF, JS8Call, FT8
Whether you're into portable ham radio, SHTF communication, or just love building out a communications rig for the road, this setup has you covered.
🔹My Favorite Gear - amazon.com/shop/km4ack
🔹Raspberry Pi Build Guide - tiny.cc/pi4guide
🔹Frequently Asked Questions - tiny.cc/km4ack-faq
🔹Weekly Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/40da1fe472e3/km4acknewsletter
🔹Follow Me
Twitter @km4ack
🔹FREE Get Started Guide - tiny.cc/getstartedguide
🔹Cool Ham Gear - km4ack.com
🔹Support the channel through Patreon - patreon.com/km4ack
🔹Did you just get a raspberry pi and want to hook it up to your radio? Start here youtu.be/E1SEgPFQk4M
Want your raspberry pi to play nice with your ham radio? Are you into digital modes like FT8, JS8Call, FLDIGI, Winlink, APRS, Digipeaters and others? Each week I put out new content showing you exactly what steps to take to get the latest ham radio software on your raspberry pi. Whether you just want to ragchew or are seriously into emergency preparedness, emcomm, or ARES and want to learn all you can about using the raspberry pi to drive your ham radio, this channel has something for you. Be sure to click the subscribe button and ring the bell before heading off. That way you will get notified of all future videos.
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🔧 Ultimate Mobile Ham Radio Setup in a Ford F250 | Yaesu 891, FTM-500, Meshtastic, APRS, & Winlink 📡
Take a tour of my fully-equipped mobile ham radio shack installed in a Ford F250 truck, designed for off-grid communication, emergency preparedness, and DXing on the go! In this video, I walk through my complete mobile setup featuring:
📻 Yaesu FT-891 HF Radio – Reliable 100W portable HF rig for 10m–160m band ops📡 Yaesu FTM-500DR – Dual-band VHF/UHF with APRS and digital fusion capabilities📶 Meshtastic Node – LoRa mesh network integration for off-grid text messaging📨 Winlink RMS Express – Send & receive email over HF using VARA & digital modes
✅ Capabilities include:
• HF voice communication (SSB)
• VHF/UHF simplex and repeater ops
• APRS tracking & messaging
• Digital modes: Winlink email, VARA HF, JS8Call, FT8
Whether you're into portable ham radio, SHTF communication, or just love building out a communications rig for the road, this setup has you covered.
🔹My Favorite Gear - amazon.com/shop/km4ack
🔹Raspberry Pi Build Guide - tiny.cc/pi4guide
🔹Frequently Asked Questions - tiny.cc/km4ack-faq
🔹Weekly Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/40da1fe472e3/km4acknewsletter
🔹Follow Me
Twitter @km4ack
🔹FREE Get Started Guide - tiny.cc/getstartedguide
🔹Cool Ham Gear - km4ack.com
🔹Support the channel through Patreon - patreon.com/km4ack
🔹Did you just get a raspberry pi and want to hook it up to your radio? Start here youtu.be/E1SEgPFQk4M
Want your raspberry pi to play nice with your ham radio? Are you into digital modes like FT8, JS8Call, FLDIGI, Winlink, APRS, Digipeaters and others? Each week I put out new content showing you exactly what steps to take to get the latest ham radio software on your raspberry pi. Whether you just want to ragchew or are seriously into emergency preparedness, emcomm, or ARES and want to learn all you can about using the raspberry pi to drive your ham radio, this channel has something for you. Be sure to click the subscribe button and ring the bell before heading off. That way you will get notified of all future videos.
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