I got to drive one of these for a few minutes at the McMurdo station in Antarctica when I was on vacation from my job at the South Pole. Funny thing is that the clutch wasn't working correctly so had to do slip shifting. And we switched drivers while this behemoth was moving along the ice.
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So they bought it from the annual auction of surplus gear brought back from the US Antarctica Program (USAP) I guess? And this would have been used at McMurdo base.
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I’ve decided it is time to sell my truck/camper combo after having bought it from dirtydog about 2 years ago; I’m going to be touring on my bike this summer and I’ve never really needed the 4x4 capabilities of this truck; the only real time I’ve used the 4x4 was during a day long 4x4 class down...
Hello,
I picked up a 2008 ford f250 4x4 with popup camper last year and it's time to go get routine maintenance done - does anyone have any recommendations on a place in the Berkeley/North Oakland area?
thanks
tex
One should note that the iridium system is a very low bandwidth system, something like a 2400 baud modem if I remember correctly. They will state higher speeds depending on compression of the data. A bigger issue for me when I used iridium links was the high latency, but that was only because...
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