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yup, GRM

So...do you just copy the posts to both forums? ;-)

You always hear about the legendary Jeep reliability, right?

yeah, that's a couple hours longer. I'm not sure which is a bigger hurdle at the moment - lack of vacation days or spending a week straight in my ZJ...

As someone new to Jeeps in general, I'd love to do this one day. But it's a loooong drive from GA.

Ehhh...my TYT TH-7800 won't auto ID on crossband, which limits it's legal use as well as not giving me the option you mentioned.

I thought I'd throw on an update - I had an incident where my weirdo fan clutch suddenly started working correctly. It unlocked fully while towing a boat on the interstate and the Jeep was nice an quite even running without OD. Temp crept up to 208 and held there. Got off the interstate and the...

Thanks. Incidentally, I finally got around to hanging my first actual molle bag on it, a first aid kit. It works great. The little squares are the perfect size but it does take some fiddling to work the straps though.

Fairly sure in both cases I was TX on low (5watts) on the 70cm side. The 2m TX was on 35 watts, but the only TX was my check in to the net. Good thought to double check it though. I will probably set up all my channel parameters as memory channels for easy recall of the multiple settings, and...

As a note back to the original intent of this thread - I used my dual band mobile in the truck to crossband repeat a couple times recently. First time was Saturday, I was volunteering as a turn marshal/ traffic control person on a local triathalon. The local ham club was supporting the race...

The notice is interesting reading for sure. Frankly, I kind of wondered why companies were getting away with selling radios that would transmit illegally anyway. I mean, why was the FCC granting a type 15 on a radio that is capable of transmitting on MARS/GMRS/FRS/etc frequencies? Why grant a...

Well, since someone bumped the thread... I ended up with a dual band, dual transceiver 50w unit. I went cheap import (yeah, I know) but so far it's been good. I went with a TYT-7800. I found several independent tests online in the ham community that verified it doesn't have any issues with...

I've been daydreaming this same kind of thing, and that's a great looking project. How does it tow on the interstate? Stable with that amount of lift or top heavy? Any chance you've had it on some rougher forest roads? Not talking rock crawling, but I've wondered how something like this handles...

I've had a similar experience, sort of. I replaced the entire cooling system on my ZJ this spring - water pump, radiator, and of course the thermal fan clutch. At 160k I suspect it was all original parts. The fan clutch that came out didn't feel bad and I wasn't having cooling issues but the WP...

I found a great source for cheap, small black metal mesh. They make office trash cans out of the stuff. For less than $20 you get a piece about 3'x18". Havent done it yet but it's in the plans.

I drilled a bunch of holes in it. I shouldn't be left with power tools unsupervised.

I really enjoy doing the electrical stuff. Anything you don't know is easily found on line, the components are fairly cheap and snap together*, and it's rarely rusted solid or covered in grease. *once you learn to install a terminal anyway.

What percentage of people currently off roading or overlanding have a dedicated, trail-only vehicle that can't (reasonably) be driven across a state on the highway? Now, how many of those cost over $30k? how about $50k? the market is tiny.