Search results

That No Crapping sign from Table Mountain is just hilarious. I didn't know safricans had that sense of humour. It's my local mountain but I've never seen the sign before.

Are you from South Africa? That looks like a Venter trailer box plonked on your chassis

Causing havoc with passing aircraft is a bigger risk than the injured or lost guy you're trying to help in an emergency

If you're not a qualified pilot or aircrew you shouldn't be in possession of an airband radio that can transmit. It's a security risk Well it's like that here in my part of the world. You can't have every Tom, ******** and Harry walking around with airband radios. In our SAR set up we have ultra...

On my previous truck the mod I wouldn't do again was a 2 inch body lift. Recently I've been considering a body lift for my current truck and I've even ordered the spacers. Mmmmmmmm. De ja vu The main issue on the previous vehicle was that it ruined the waterproof seal at the gearlever so if I...

The only reason I have a roof rack is because of my day job. If I didn't need to carry ladders it wouldn't be there.

I keep NOTHING stashed outside my vehicle. But then I live in South Africa where if you blink it's gone. Axe mounted externally? No freekin way :Wow1:

I found my simplest solution is a stationary cycle out in the garage with a tv in front of it. If I want to watch a game or whatever I have to go do it on the bike. It's easy to set targets as well. One game, sitcom, documentary equals one unit of sweat Luckily I have a few weights there as...

Eeew. Reminds me of a day on the rocks watching a young kid with his grand dad. The old man reaches into a rock pool and pulls out an octopus. He shows the kid the beak in the middle then puts it to his mouth and bites the beak off and gives it to the kid :Wow1: :Wow1:

Does cooking freshly slaughtered meat directly on top of coals qualify as exotic food? When out on Ops when we had to eat off the land we'd catch whatever animal was available, make a fire, and chuck the pieces of meat straight on. When it looked edible we'd just scrape the coals off with a...

Snake freshly gutted and cooked on a fire, and cooked mopani worms, are the only two exotic foods I can think of right now. I couldn't bring myself to eat raw mopani worms

Hey ZZTop mated and had babies :sombrero:

Years ago at the wedding of an ex-girlfriend of mine the photographer was doing the backwards walk into the reception, weaving between the tables of seated guests, when he keeled over and died. There was the whole cardiac massage thing going on while the wedding party took a different route to...

That's 16 mm/2 I don't know gauge that is. The rest of the world doesn't use gauge any more :) It's like thin battery cable. Probably about 8mm diameter Voltage drop on transmit is tiny. A fraction of a volt.

Not sure if this should be in the radio section or the GPS section. I have an Icom F110 and an Oregon 550 gps in my vehicle, amongst other things. When keying my mic the 12v power to the gps switches off. This is intermittent so when I want to do tests I can't replicate it. It's usually when...

Depends on your distances. We are in a mountainous area. Some of our guys discovered by accident that they got better comms with stations relatively nearby by using the antenna tilted over. It's now become the norm here. In the photo spot the antenna on the middle vehicle tilted back and spot...

You could just leave your HF antenna tied down like that. We run our vehicle mounted HF antennas tilted over at an angle all the time. Usually towards the back though

Ok so here's my report back. I've been using my 550 for quite a while now and my conclusion is that the novelty has worn off. A touch screen sucks badly and I long for the days when buttons did the job.

I just got back home from a SAR call out. Had to go get a father and son off a mountain. Anyhoo, they had a dog with them and lo and behold it was one of those ugly things like AdventureDuo have. really old though, with a white beard So herewith my very poor quality cellphone photo of the ugly...

Google Earth tells me my driveway gate is 0.45 miles from the drive thru window at the local McD as the crow flies. blush blush. And a KFC etc. Whole bunch of eateries. We're deprived in this country. :sombrero: I remember when the first McD opened in my city. It was a novelty and people...