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Richard
Is that a Midland HAM or CB?
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Richard
Just an idea of where I keep my air attachments. I use the steel clips used to hold brooms on a wall to hold down the tire inflator and air nozzle.
I use a reusable cable tie (zip tie) and keep the ARB hose tied down to the compressor. Anytime I need air, everything I need is right by the compressor! No need to go digging around in bags or boxes looking for attachments. The hood closes fine with them there. Although for deflating and inflating, I use a 4 tire manifold so all my tires air up at exactly the same pressure.
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Richard
Out here we're on HAM frequencies, but my hand held HAM radio does the GMRS frequencies also.
CB's are sooo last century Rubber Duck. HAM will have far more range over hilly and tree terrain. GMRS isn't as good as HAM but better than CB and you don't need a license for GMRS.
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Richard
I have a Yaesu FTM-400XDR. This has been a great radio. I use it with our 4x4 club on trails and when we're doing Army field training exercises (I'm an Army reserve officer).
My install starts at post #44: Builds - R²M 2013 GX 460 Overland Build - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/r-m-2013-gx-460-overland-build.1104719/page-3
Thanks… was a MARs operator for a few years and was newsletter editor and president of our radio club back when… W2GSA. If I may boast..we won our class on Field day in the 1980’s while president…under generator power, 7 stations. Rare tornado took out my tower this summer. It was rotted at the steel base .
That radio is sweet
That radio is sweet
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Richard
Awesome!
I'm just an "end user". The Sargent Major under my command is very into HAM and military radios. Last month we were invited by the New York State Guard to do a national military radio training exercise to include guard units in states across the country.
We also have a couple of guys in our 4x4 that are in a radio club.
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Love the idea of HAM. I’m hoping GMRS is the entry drug for it. In this case, I’m fully running off my boss’ recommendation as they all run it here.
One thing to correct. Technically, GMRS does require a license and call sign from the FCC. Fortunately it is a $35 charge for 10 years and applies to all direct family members. However, the application process is about as government’d up as you’d expect. I went through it this morning. You need separate website walk throughs to walk you through how to apply and pay. Good ole’ government agencies!
There's no test but the FCC website IS the test.
I remember back in 1980 I went into a radio store and showed him a Kenwood transceiver…he said, “oh no…cb is so much easier’ and wanted me to get this fancy cb radio. Then I found out that the FCC was going to be at a local military base administering all classes of exams. I passed novice and tech that day. Code was 5 word per minute. That took about 30+ days to get my call sign.
It’s been 43 years and I still remember my first contact. OZ1APA in Denmark on CW (Morse code) about 3 months later I drove to NYC at 201 Varick St. using head sets from the 1940’s I took the 13 words per minute code test and general class license. They examined your calculator for equations in memory, monitored your mathematics and graded it all right there…. then immediately after, took the advanced class test. I remember being mentally wasted..I was 28.
Today, things have really changed. I never took the 20wpm code test or the amateur extra exam. Around 25 years ago, piece of cake. Now, I’m not so sure. I did built a 2000watt amp. Between that and this freakin’ giant boom antenna it was nearly 30,000 watts of effective radiated power. It may have caused the polar ice caps to thaw a bit.
2m and 432 were my first repeaters but EME, Slow Scan TV and Satellite were in vogue and I had to try this stuff. Teletype was big but they were using recycled manual type machines. Then the Commodore 64 was a hit. Computers and amateur radio was in new territory. Man, I feel like some of the old guys I first met and started with by telling these stories…..all of them are silent keys now
It’s been 43 years and I still remember my first contact. OZ1APA in Denmark on CW (Morse code) about 3 months later I drove to NYC at 201 Varick St. using head sets from the 1940’s I took the 13 words per minute code test and general class license. They examined your calculator for equations in memory, monitored your mathematics and graded it all right there…. then immediately after, took the advanced class test. I remember being mentally wasted..I was 28.
Today, things have really changed. I never took the 20wpm code test or the amateur extra exam. Around 25 years ago, piece of cake. Now, I’m not so sure. I did built a 2000watt amp. Between that and this freakin’ giant boom antenna it was nearly 30,000 watts of effective radiated power. It may have caused the polar ice caps to thaw a bit.
2m and 432 were my first repeaters but EME, Slow Scan TV and Satellite were in vogue and I had to try this stuff. Teletype was big but they were using recycled manual type machines. Then the Commodore 64 was a hit. Computers and amateur radio was in new territory. Man, I feel like some of the old guys I first met and started with by telling these stories…..all of them are silent keys now
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Richard
I remember in the mid 1970's one even had to have a license for CB radios, which I had one in my car, but never took any classes or test.
That was during the height of the CB radio craze… I had a CB in my ‘74 FJ40 my brother had one in his fiberglass corvette. My first exposure to radio was my uncle. He had a TV store and was a TV repair man in the early 1960’s …he gave me one on his Raytheon base CB’s where I had an antenna fixed to a tree, I think I was just turning 10.
In The mid ‘70’s. That movie with Kris Kristoferson came out called “Convoy” and cemented CB radio as a mainstay for a few years.
Was fun.
In The mid ‘70’s. That movie with Kris Kristoferson came out called “Convoy” and cemented CB radio as a mainstay for a few years.
Was fun.
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This install required a flamethrower, a Mr. Coffee, a comb, some assholes, and the raspberry.
And this one is to remind those smaller assholes in the backseat
Back to the easier installs soon...
And this one is to remind those smaller assholes in the backseat
Back to the easier installs soon...
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Joined team Yankum this evening. I like the idea of less and softer components.
It was cold outside, so I pulled the winch line into the house for "surgery."
It was cold outside, so I pulled the winch line into the house for "surgery."
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Richard
Seriously, LOVE that fairlead!
Testing out your 10,000 lb pull strength capacity on those Adirondacks?
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Thanks for the sticker offer. I have a few that came with other parts. I did replace a Factor 55 Prolink with the Fid. Still a fan of them, but took advantage of the Yankum sale. Factor 55 didn’t do much. That was a letdown.
Not in the Adirondacks (New York) yet. Will be tested in the Green Mountains (Vermont) first. Well… assuming the first “stucks” happen in Vermont.
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Richard
Ha-ha! Was referring to the green chairs, they're called "Adirondack chairs" because back in the day, some ambiguous time very early in the last century. Folks in the 'physical' Adirondacks of New York would make these chairs from planks of spare wood. They're simple and comfortable. And you don't need a side table for drinks or snacks with those extra wide arms.
I designed and made some for myself about 20 years ago and loved them. I hated having to leave them at that house 'cause they didn't work for were we're at now. I still have the plans and templates... some day???
