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This topic pisses me off. Well, that's not quite true. Wal-Mart pisses me off. Let me explain. Wal-Mart used to carry these cheap little aluminum flashlights, branded Ozark Trail. They looked like this: When I buy cheap flashlights, I study their specs very carefully. It honestly comes...

There are about a dozen repeaters located on Farnsworth Peak. Did you copy the programming of one of my radios? In the past, I labeled this specific repeater FRNW22.

(EDIT: our next net is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, April 16th 2019, exact time TBD.) Now that permission has been granted to use a centrally-located repeater, and after an impromptu dry run by myself and @lhracing, I am ready to hold our first official RME on-air ham radio net. All...

I guess you could say last night was a 'dry run' practice session, consisting only of myself and @lhracing. We had a pleasant 10-minute chat, which was more than sufficient to verify the validity of using this repeater. I did call out a couple times to see if any other RME members were...

Okay, I am preparing to get on my radio...

Here at our dealership, the value of vehicles with branded titles is about 50% off, no matter what year or how many miles. This is in line with most other dealers we talk to. There are many reasons to avoid branded titles, including--but not limited to--the following: many lenders will not...

From the Utah VHF Society web site: In other news, from all my listening the .94 repeater seems to be pretty quiet. This bodes well for us, as I think we can pretty much pick an evening and a time and very likely won't have problems stepping on anybody else's toes. Anybody up for a trial run...

I measured it on Google. Your home is 29.1 miles from that repeater. That is asking a lot for an HT (depending on the antenna).

Only transmit.

I am extremely reluctant to use the 62 repeater, for three main reasons: It is very busy all day long (and well into the night) some of the guys who use/monitor it Will. Not. Shut. Up. (Brett Davis will back me up on this) since the 62 uses no tone, it doesn't force you to program a tone into...

On Farnsworth Peak, 146.940 (88.5 tone).

Of course you are welcome to observe and learn more about the hobby, Nate. Any licensed operator can sit with you and let you use their radio to make contacts, and I would be happy to do this. If you'd like, we could also have an extended one-on-one discussion wherein you can ask as many...

UPDATE, WITH GOOD NEWS It has been so long that I forgot about this thread. Today I received an email from Mel Parkes, president of the Utah VHF Society (the group that owns the repeater I wanted to use for our on-air practice). He was looking through some old email messages, found mine, and...

I forgot to post the end of my story. For those who are curious: My friend signed over the title to me, and wrote 'gift' in the price box. We also printed out the official bill of sale (Form TC-843); he filled that out and also wrote 'gift' in the price area. Armed with only these two pieces...

It is. In a VIN, the first character identifies the country where the vehicle was built. In this case, 1 = USA. (If it had been built in Canada, there would be a 2 instead.) However, where the vehicle was built is irrelevant. What really matters is for which market the vehicle was built...

Is there anybody who hasn't covered Zombie? ;)

Oh, gee, where do I begin??? There is this guy named Leo Moracchioli. Don't let the Italian name fool you--he's from Norway. Anyway, the dude is into heavy metal music and is a seriously accomplished musician. He plays everything--guitar, bass, drums, plus a host of other instruments. He...

^^ THIS. I was solo in my TJ, and I still felt short on space for how I wanted to pack my stuff. I used a lightweight 2-person tent (really more like 1.5 person size) and that was fine.

Ham radio will probably allow you to communicate from your cabins to your home in Riverton, depending exactly where each is located. At the cabins, you should be able to hit both the Ephraim repeater (146.660) and the one at Boardinghouse Ridge (147.080). Both of those are part of the linked...

Full disclosure: I own a Baofeng UV-5R. I also own a Yaesu FT-60R, with an upgraded antenna. Every time I go on any Jeep run, the Yaesu FT-60R and its antenna are in a ziplock baggie in the Jeep's glove box... just in case.