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Congrats on having the determination to do the trip! Too many talk and don't DO! Have a great time! Will enjoy watching. Bob

Very nice! Thanks for posting.

I just 'discovered' this thread and completed reading it. You have done an impressive job rebuilding your Alaskan!!! My wife and I have been using an old 1971 10' NCO for about 8 years. It also has a lot of rot and our decision was to replace it with a 2002 we found. You have done an awesome...

Obviously I let that picture of a 404 battery compartment mislead me. Sorry for the goose chase! With the facts now known, I agree you probably have a bad battery, as you initially stated. I would still charge each battery, in place, and then test, as others suggested. Also measure charging...

Are you saying the 'house' batteries are not permanently connected in parallel with your truck batteries? I know you said "only when the truck is running", but the photo shows a POS to POS hard connection? What gives?? You should disconnect the house batteries from the truck batteries, charge...

If one battery is "a MagnaCharge 24M1000 that is less than 1 year old", is the other battery identical? Wording sort of implies it's not. If you have dissimilar batteries in series, well you now know what happens when you have two dissimilar batteries in series LOL. If the two batteries are...

I recently scraped an m51 Chemical Biological shelter on an M105. The one I got was rusty beyond use. If you look at the bed closely, it is really chopped up. Major panels are missing and it is full of holes. Engine mounts are welded to the bed of the trailer. Your need seems to be the bed...

Those cans look nice. I am also a big fan of the European style metal cans. They are tough as nails and don't leak, period.

That was a great video! I sure miss that place, and others, in CO. Mt Antero was the first offroad trip we took in a Jeep Cherokee we bought in 1988. We broke it in that trip and kept it for 235k miles! We also took the 'straight' road at that left turn at 3:53 in the video. It goes up to...

No body else makes a real Hi-Lift. Other brands of 'farm jacks', sheepherder jacks' etc, just don't compare.

Take a look at the Watts Up meter (search "watsup meter"). It will show you the battery voltage, realtime amperage, peak V, peakA, and most importantly Ampere hours. Available with several means of attachment. I have a couple of them and prefer the one with wires, to which I added Powerpole...

Great investigative job David. Most radios today have SWR protection so you are probably ok to try it. Some radios have an output meter that acts as a tattletale for SWR. As SWR gets worse, the level on the output meter will reduce due to power reduction. You can use that as a rudimentary...

Such an auto-start system could make changing a fan belt more exciting LOL

David, I looked up the AZ504 because I have never used one. Since this is a dual band antenna, and is about 15.6 inches long, Diamond undoubtedly uses matching networks inside the base. If that got busted, you will not have a dual band antenna any longer if you just replace the 'wire'. With a...

I have had to replace 10 tires on several trailers in the last 5 years. All were new when mounted, non re-cap, and no more than 5 years old when failed. All were Chinese. Failures included blowouts and delaminations. One tire had been the spare and had 100 miles on it when it blew out...

Who ever heard of measuring rope diameter in fifths of an inch?!?!?! :-)

Congrats to all you new hams! [FF6WFB must be a typo unless you are in France :-) ]

The low Reid vapor pressure gas we get these days will boil at increased altitude, especially if that happens to be older gas of winter blend (with more high volatiles). Had that happen all the time in the mountains above Denver. I cut my gas with 10 to 20 percent Diesel and that worked great...

What was he striving to show? What was his test setup? Is he trying to sell his magic cables? What was 'magic' was how the modulation level changed so the Bird showed higher power. Bah humbug.

Great answer! Back in the 90's we played with APRS for ARES comms. For areas in the mountains of Colorado with no radio coverage on VHF or UHF, we could type up a short message, tell the APRS to send it, then let it keep trying until successful. When some enhancing condition happens, like a...