Aug. 23rd Run? (1 Viewer)

[Rudical]

Is anyone intrested? I want to take my truck out and make sure she is ready for Moab. I have the front lift in and plan to get the rear this week. That should give me some time to fix anything I need to. A simple run would be good since my sliders won't be here for a month.

Rudy

 

[evanz80]

Sorry - can't make it this time. But have fun and take lots of pics!

 

[pappy]

Rn'R. Going to Utah for a long weekend.

 

[Beowulf]

I'll keep one of the radios on the Mega-Link when I am in the garage or running errands and burning up petrol.
-Mike-

 

[Rudical]

I'll keep one of the radios on the Mega-Link when I am in the garage or running errands and burning up petrol.
-Mike-

Thanks Mike,

For keeping an ear out, but I didn't make it myself. These 12-13 hour days for work have been killing me, so I decided to wait until this morning to finish the rear lift. I woke up early and had her done by 9:30, hope I have no problems.

 

[pappy]

Mike! Where were you? I kept calling and calling and calling ...

 

[Beowulf]

Mike! Where were you? I kept calling and calling and calling ...

Sorry Jon. I was doing a few things on the truck today but most of the time the radio was off so I could hear a weird "squeaking" noise that is coming from somewhere underneath the truck. I was driving around with the windows down and spraying WD40 and greasing everything in sight. Still squeaks though.

You are supposed to be in the boonies. Where are you getting wireless service?

Heard on the news there was a plane crash close to Moab. Are you in that area?

-Mike-

 

[pappy]

Sorry Jon. I was doing a few things on the truck today but most of the time the radio was off so I could hear a weird "squeaking" noise that is coming from somewhere underneath the truck. I was driving around with the windows down and spraying WD40 and greasing everything in sight. Still squeaks though.

You are supposed to be in the boonies. Where are you getting wireless service?

Heard on the news there was a plane crash close to Moab. Are you in that area?

-Mike-

I was in Capitol Reef NP. Came home a day early due to a sinus infection and just felling bad. I'd rather feel crappy in my own bed than in the field. Made for a bitch of a drive home.

Since I was listening to Moab radio I did hear about the crash. Apparently a plane took off from the airport north of town and crashed. They said it "bounced" several times before tumbling and catching fire. Nobody saw the accident and they didn't know one had occurred until they went to investigate a brush fire. Everybody on board died. They were a dermatologist team from Ceder City that were holding a monthly clinic in Moab.

Eastern Utah is linking their repeaters. I was tuned into a repeater on the Henry Mountains (Mt Ellen) that had incredible coverage. I was in a deep canyon many miles away and decided to tune in the repeater. I'll see if I can do a Hemphill profile. I couldn't believe I heard it. At 60 watts I was even able to ping the repeater though the return tone was very weak. While sitting in the Fruita campground listening to the radio I had a funny feeling I was listening to SLC. Sure enough they were from Provo and the guy said they were in the process of linking many of eastern Utah's repeaters. The Henry Mtn repeater was linked, and he said the repeater in Monticello (Abajo Peak) was too. They are working on adding one of the repeaters in Moab to the system. From the website it looks like there is a lot of overlap between I-70 and I-15 (5 repeaters).

The system is getting put together by the the Sinbad Desert Amateur Radio Club. Here is the coverage map for the linked repeaters.

This is really cool stuff. All I can say is ... I need a bigger antenna.