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Added this to my full map. Thanks for the points! I'm wanting to do this trip this summer. I'm hoping to take a long weekend in June to run this.

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1. It's pretty capable for what it is. 2. It holds the family comfortably for road trips. 3. It's Body on Frame 4. It's got cruise control and A/C 5. It's solid rear axle with leaf springs.

I wish I could have made this trip. I've been wanting to check out this area for a while. Hopefully I can get up with ya'll this summer and spend some time out there.

This got me last year. I camped out with a fellow member and ham for a QSO party in March. We set up in about 6" of snow on a mountain and put up our antennas and worked the party. At bed time, I was on an air mattress in a huge tent. My heater wouldn't stay running and I thought I was going to...

Any thoughts about the next meet-up?

You'll have to source an antenna and mount. What vehicle do you have?

I agree. The 285s on my X run with the most contact patch at 35psi in everyday life. When we load it up for a trip, it takes 40F/45R.

The FT-70 HT has been on sale recently. It's a good little radio and I've yet to hear from anyone who has one that doesn't like it. For mobile, look into something with dual watch. The FTM-400XDR has been on sale recently if you are interested in APRS and the TM-D710G goes on sale randomly as...

In chirp your 2m offset should be 0.6MHz 440 is 5.0MHz

You don't normally hear someone call CQ on a repeater. Generally throwing out your call and "monitoring" IE "KT4OZ monitoring" and you may or may not get a response. It seems that a lot of repeaters have just turned into local watering holes but I've made several contacts while traveling. I also...

Some radios are better at it than others. My main mobiles are dual watch so I can RX two frequencies at the same time. I keep the local repeater on one side and local ARES simplex on the other. When I'm out of town, one side I tune around to repeaters near me and the other stays on 146.520.

146.520 is the "National Calling Frequency" for 2m FM. There is usually someone somewhere monitoring it. When I'm mobile away from home, I always keep one side of my radio tuned to it and I've heard lots of chatter on it. Good idea on a topic of discussion though!

Hey folks! Hope everyone has been enjoying the net! Got a couple things we need some input/help with though: First, we're wanting some input as to topics you'd like to have for the net. We have a few held back and we're also wanting to have follow ups on APRS, SOTA, and Solar as they were all...

So I've been following this thread but not active as much. I need to run through it again. Sorry guys. Our trip got canceled due to the weather and it was just as well, because the little local trip we attempted instead was foiled by vehicle trouble. I'm hoping to spend a long weekend out...

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That can make it hard for folks to join in and be able to easily search for meet-ups and events. We had a guy show up to our meetup Sunday that just searched online for offroad gatherings and found a link to the meet-up thread here. I don't think he'd ever been on the board or joined OB. I...

I think my next purchase will be a sleeping pad with a high R value. I was looking at the Thermarest LuxuryMap with a R value of 6.8. I've got to improve my cold weather sleeping setup. @John Fury and I camped in the snow last March and I was freezing. I've replaced my buddy heater after it...

Great meeting you guys! I've updated the Rally Point for next month! Hope everyone can make it out again. Maybe we'll get some warmer weather and we can do some more tire kicking without our toes freezing.

Hey guys! We had a great meet-up! I've updated the Rally Point to reoccur, but moved it to the 2nd Sunday of each month to miss some holidays along the way. There was some discussion about a get together later on when it's warmer to have a kind of training weekend. We have folks with a wide...