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I agree with everything you've said up to this point. Modern radios have thousands of memory slots. You can simple program in ALL the repeaters in the entire region. I've got the entire west coast in my ID-5100 (2500 in California, another 3k in NV, AZ and CO). My PL/offset lookup is in the...

The rugged radios kits are extremely overpriced for what they come with. You can find the same parts on eBay/Amazon for a lot less. I'm personally not a huge fan of the baofeng/baotech radios. The reciever isn't very sensitive so it loses repeaters at a closer distance then other radios that...

Yes. I run a bunch of icom gear that is all dstar enabled. Mostly, it's to eliminate static when we are still en-route. There isn't much interference in the wilderness so audio quality generally isn't an issue while remote. I don't think I really gain much, but the gps-subdata has been...

I gave some serious thought to a rig like this (a President Lincoln II) a while back. I even bought one to play with it for a while. I've come to the conclusion that a 10 meter mono-band radio really isn't all that useful unless you buy enough of them to outfit your entire group with similar...

I have a 4.5' width trailer with 35x12.5 tires. The trailer is about 2" wider then my 2-door Jeep (JK) with the same tires. I'm very happy that the width on the trailer almost matches up with the Jeep. I wouldn't want to go down a trail where the Jeep fits but the trailer is to wide. I've...

The "put up a pole with a full sized antenna" idea is a great one, as long as you don't need to use it while in motion. A full sized antenna will work much better then the best compact one. I run a fridge in my offroad trailer, so I've got enough solar power for a few hours per day of mobile...

Have you read http://www.k0bg.com/ ? The short version: any band below 10 meters requires an antenna too long to mount on a vehicle. This means that mobile hf antennas all operate at negative gain, with worse performance the lower the band. The best you can hope for is about 9-10% efficiency...

kb1ejh: Since you have one, did you find the Pactor modem to be significantly better then using Winmor? I'm considering if it's worth the extra space in my teardrop to haul around a modem. I would be using it in conjunction with the IC-7100 and external tuner in the trailer.

I've gotten a chance to play with both APRS and Winlink. I tried each on VHF and also on HF. I used the direwolf software TNC and winmor with my IC-7100s from a Win10 virtual machine running on my Mac laptop. These modes are not as good as robust-packet or pactor, but I didn't want to shell out...

Alright. I've imported that. Hopefully I'll remember. :)

I keep missing this. :( I really have got to set an alarm or something.

I already have the HF radio installed, so no added cost there. The SCS tracker is $350, which is honestly, more then I'd want to spend. The Tiny Track4 is $180 with the cables and such, and I'd be OK with spending that much. The question I have not been able to find yet: Where are the...

Hillbilly Heaven: Couldn't I run a remote power cut-off switch to the tracker?

Hello All, I'm thinking I'd like to put together a HF APRS station in my Jeep. I already have an IC-7100 installed in the Jeep with a screwdriver antenna. I am able to receive and "hear" packets on the 30m band. It seems there is two competing standards for encoding packets on HF APRS: PSK63...

Yes! Locking doors are a must to sleep at truck stops on the way to and from our adventures. Tom at Treeline created plastic blocks that fit into the handles on the inside and prevent them from opening. I don't have a photo handy. My teardrop is currently at Treeline for maintenance. I can...

Satellite based devices, like a SPOT or sat phone, require horizon-to-horizon visibility of the sky or they won't work reliably as the satellites in the network are moving across the sky. If you are in the flat lands then you can save a large amount of coin by going with one of those. If you are...

Has anyone rigged up any kind of insect control around the cooking area? We are starting to get into yellowjacket season here in northern California. Last year I used a popup tent and a really big sheet of bug netting material, but it was way too much of a pain to set up and the wind kept...

Hello all, I'm starting to see a bunch of videos being put out that are using footage taken from remote control aircraft as part of camping videos. I like this kind of footage, but I don't know anything about how to make such a thing. What would a good started vehicle be? What should I know...

Thanks Doug. The fact that it survived that abuse at all shows how well the design and build comes together on these trailers. I've seen what happens if a fiberglass framed trailer falls, and those are generally a complete loss. We picked the right trailer :)

Doug E: Don't feel too bad. We did worse. A sand bank gave way under the trailer as we came down an incline. The bank caused one tire to come down about 3 feet while the other tire wasn't moving. The trailer just slid down and flopped on it's side. Luckily, the sand below was soft. The only...