What have you done to your 200 Series this week? (6 Viewers)
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Yes, apologies. Copied the wrong pasta. The Makers Mark is flowing too freely due to the Ngannou win tonight. Bookmakers lost some cash tonight suckas!
Installed a National Luna LED Touch Light on the rear hatch!
Markuson
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Nice! Isn’t that the one that can switch between red/white?
Markuson
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Nice. I have the same. I ended up attatching a bit of Velcro to create a small “shade” along the edge facing rearward so that it doesn’t shine in my eyes. Great lights. I already had a white light solution, but added those reds to avoid insects when in the boonies. I like that they have three levels of brightness for both red and white.
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Markuson
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This arrived off of backorder today... 
Is that a ham receiver?
Oh you'll like it, I have one sitting in the box here at home waiting for me to decide which vehicle to install it in. I had no idea they were on backorder, I have had mine for a few months now.
Markuson
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Transceiver, yes.
Just the face plate is shown, but the main init and various other parts are there, too, of course.
Is APRS in your future by chance?
Markuson
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Yes.
With a number of other drivers installing this same unit, APRS is potentially pretty useful re sharing location & distances within a wheeling group. Should be especially useful where trail lead/gunner combos are both able to share packets that include location coordinates in real time.
Looking forward to seeing how this goes in the field....and also the ability to let my hand helds basically use this 50W as a repeater to give them greater reach-out range when out of the truck.
Using the unit’s repeater function could be especially helpful when out the truck spotting, doing recoveries, or other delays toward the back of a group where a handheld’s range might not reach the lead truck on its own.
(Set handheld up on shorter range frequency received by this unit, then instantly rebroadcast to the trail group’s frequency at higher power).
PS. Don’t ask me exactly how to set that up yet, because I haven’t gotten there. I just know it’s doable). As always...the jury is out til actual use.
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info on seat bags please
Mark, are there mobile units that support APRS?
Markuson
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This system is a mobile unit.
Do you mean hand-helds?
If so...ya.
(See link to Yaesu handheld at bottom of post)
Yaesu makes one that includes the GPS module. I will be very interested to check it out at some point since it would be nice to be able to hand it to a second vehicle in a two-truck group. No idea what the real-world range and usefulness would be with less power...
DISCLAIMER!!
-I am no APRS or HAM authority!
This is mostly new info to me...
Maybe @indycole will chime in as he’s fiddled with quite a few comm options and is great at keeping track of techie details. He uses a different main unit, and I’m pretty sure he just replaced his with yet another option.
See this link for one example:
EDIT: Oops! Someone indicated it’s disontinued. See this next link for another APRS handheld:
I also have the Garmin Inreach Sat communicator which can track other devices. But the problem is that it requires a pretty expensive subscription—especially to do location updates at two minute intervals. APRS does this for free if others have it.
Nice thing about the Garmin is that you can share/track location from anywhere on the planet so radio transmission power is not a factor. But that’s a pretty different intended use.
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Nice. Is that battery powered? If so, any idea how long it would run on a single battery?
I have a Kenwood TM-D710 with the APRS working and I like it a lot. I have not hooked it up to an external display but will do that at some point. It also has the ability to do cross band repeat from an HT.
If you are interested you can follow yesterday's wanderings here.
Markuson
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Hmm... Missed that.
Here’s another one... Not an endorsement, as I’m new to this.
Just pointing to another APRS handheld.
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