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I recommend you stay away from "cheap" hand held radios if you're meaning the sub-$50 Chinese variety. Yes, they are cheap but they are so inferior to a Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, or Alinco in every way,. I wonder how many people decided to get into ham radio with a Chinese hand held and were so...

I have no experience with it. I do keep up with "local" repeaters and VHF/UHF around VA and WV. There is very little DSTAR infrastructure here. I can only think of maybe 2 repeaters in about 100 mile radius of my house which is my regular area of travel. This includes western VA and eastern WV...

If you don't really need a truck bed I'd absolutely go with an SUV. My first vehicle was an S-10 Blazer. It wasn't big enough so I sold it and got a K5. I should have kept it but I didn't. Now I have a 2009 2500 Suburban. I wish it were bigger. I can fold the rear seats forward and sleep in the...

I wouldn't be looking at a 1500 truck at all if you intend to put a truck camper in the bed. 1,200 pounds dry weight is meaningless as nobody uses it that way. Add up the weight of water, propane, battery, food, clothes, gear, etc. Then add the weight of you and any passengers and pets. Then add...

I've run GM trucks for years, not so much that I'm "brand loyal" but because they have earned my business. The trucks are very reliable, ride nice, handle nice, etc. My work trucks are used in my electrical contracting business and they haul and tow heavy a lot. I often take them off road to...

If the Ford inverter is indeed not a pure sine wave I'd pass. MSW inverters are like black and white TVs. You could buy one but why?

Utility beds are incredibly rugged. They take abuse all day long from construction workers that typically don't own the truck. Further, their are plenty of us construction types that are off road frequently. I install off grid solar system on mountain top cabins. My truck's have had either steel...

I had the same problem on my 2007 Chevy and a 4,000 pound 11' camper. The drivers' side sagged more. The driver, fuel tank, stove, water heater, sink, microwave, and bathroom were all on that side. I put airbags on the truck and aired up each side to make it level. I think I ran about 15 psi...

$1,000 for a 100 watt solar system is an amazing rip off. The 100 watt panel is kind of uselessly small to begin with. You can buy a 325 watt or larger panel for less than $200. A charge controller that will handle 2 of that size panel costs about $400 tops. I don't see any reason, with your...

The industry standard spacing for frame rails on a cab & chassis frame is 34". Pick ups and box deletes have frame rail spacing all over the map, generally wider than 34".

I don't see that working. You need to hook the output of a charge controller to the battery, not another controller's input.

If you haven't discovered Crutchfield yet you need too. They are hands down the experts on all things car audio.

If your choices of fuel are propane, DC, or AC then what you're really powering it from is a propane generator. A battery bank capable of running any kind of air conditioning for a meaningful amount of time will be huge. If that device mentioned really uses 650 watts and you want to run it for...

My work truck is a 2005 Chevy crew cab dually with a flatbed/toolboxes and ladder racks. It weighs about 10,000 to 12,000 pounds depending on what I'm hauling. A lot of my work is installing solar systems at off grid cabins so I often have the truck off road. Not really hard core rock crawling...

I had my 11' Fleetwood camper on an aluminum flatbed. i had over and under body storage boxes. i really liked the set up. There was plenty of storage and the camper was only a few inches taller than a normal bed. There are very few TCs that will fit into a normal utility body and the ones that...

At those frequencies and distances a good external antenna mounted up high will do more good than a different radio.

I have heard from numerous places that the coil sprung RAM 2500 is not the truck for a TC. When I carried a 4,000 pound TC on a 3500 SRW Chevy that was the worst part, the swaying. It handled find and held the load with the help of air bags but it just swayed a lot. Why don't you want a 3500...

3500 gas if you want a fairly small TC. Dually gas if you want a larger TC. If you want a really big TC and you're going to tow then maybe diesel makes sense. I carried a 4,000 pound 11' TC on a 2007 Chevy 3500 SRW and then put it on a 2005 Dually. Man, what a difference in stability, handling...

I had an 11' TC when it was just me and my wife; it worked great. We had one kid and it was still fine. We had a second kid and it was okay but tight. We saw thousands of miles thru many states with that camper. Then we had a third kid and that was it for the truck camper. We camped in it twice...

I don't see anybody snagging any "good deals" on trucks right now. The supply is tight and prices are high. This has pushed the price of used trucks high as well. I don't see it correcting any time soon. I have a friend who works at a Ford dealer. He's told me they're buying used trucks to put...