What did you do to your truck today?

[Texas Jim]

Added two more antennas.

If you keep adding antennas, that thing is gonna look like a porcupine...

Don't be laughing at my experimental anti-rollover project.


Truth is, as I add more radios I have to add antennas for them, and some radios need multiple antennas. Right now there's seven radios permanently mounted in the truck, and eleven antennas.

I know... my BIL is a ham operator...

 

[PenguinLTZ]

Holy shit.

There is a bird nest (with birds living) in the front fender liner of my Silverado. You can only hear them.

I have got to get video of my dog freakin out

So, that will be my mission today. Remove winged beings from truck structure.

You drive your truck so little that a bird had time to build a nest and lay offspring?

Yep. I had the company truck since last fall. I have only put 2000 miles on it in the last year.

Kinda cool, since I put 20K on it the first 10 months I owned it.

 

[Carolinaboy]

Whatever bird boy

 

[dirtyoldman]

Holy shit.

There is a bird nest (with birds living) in the front fender liner of my Silverado. You can only hear them.

I have got to get video of my dog freakin out

So, that will be my mission today. Remove winged beings from truck structure.

Birds will find the damnedest places to build a nest Had one build a nest in the stovetop vent in my toy hauler...even had four pretty little green speckled eggs in it

 

[PenguinLTZ]

I had the dog out in the driveway with me, and he is staring at my fender, turning his head sideways, growling...I'm thinkin' "He loves my truck, what in the hell?"

 

[Bernie]

Added two more antennas.

If you keep adding antennas, that thing is gonna look like a porcupine...

Don't be laughing at my experimental anti-rollover project.


Truth is, as I add more radios I have to add antennas for them, and some radios need multiple antennas. Right now there's seven radios permanently mounted in the truck, and eleven antennas.

I know... my BIL is a ham operator...

What's his callsign?

 

[Bernie]

What ever happened to modern technology in that less is more. Why couldn't they all run from one antenna?

Different antennas for different functions and frequencies. And, while it's technically possible for all the radios to use a single antenna, it wouldn't be very efficient or work very well. Sort of like how it's technically possible for a truck to have only one wheel instead of four. Not very efficient and it probably wouldn't function very well as a truck.

Also, the truck is two complete radio stations, one in the cab and another in the back, and they can work independently of each other. Each station has both VHF/UHF equipment, as well as full HF capability. So, for example, while one operator is in the cab taking reports from other operators at a disaster site, and passing them on to the state emergency operations center, a second operator can be in the back transferring medical data via digital packets to another station thousands of miles away.

On the whole it makes for a very robust system, with inherent backup redundancy.

 

[Black02Silverado]

What ever happened to modern technology in that less is more. Why couldn't they all run from one antenna?

Different antennas for different functions and frequencies. And, while it's technically possible for all the radios to use a single antenna, it wouldn't be very efficient or work very well. Sort of like how it's technically possible for a truck to have only one wheel instead of four. Not very efficient and it probably wouldn't function very well as a truck.

Also, the truck is two complete radio stations, one in the cab and another in the back, and they can work independently of each other. Each station has both VHF/UHF equipment, as well as full HF capability. So, for example, while one operator is in the cab taking reports from other operators at a disaster site, and passing them on to the state emergency operations center, a second operator can be in the back transferring medical data via digital packets to another station thousands of miles away.

On the whole it makes for a very robust system, with inherent backup redundancy.

Makes sense. Thanks Bernie!

 

[Texas Jim]

Added two more antennas.

If you keep adding antennas, that thing is gonna look like a porcupine...

Don't be laughing at my experimental anti-rollover project.


Truth is, as I add more radios I have to add antennas for them, and some radios need multiple antennas. Right now there's seven radios permanently mounted in the truck, and eleven antennas.

I know... my BIL is a ham operator...

What's his callsign?

DamnifIknow... but I will find out...

 

[Bernie]

Added two more antennas.

If you keep adding antennas, that thing is gonna look like a porcupine...

Don't be laughing at my experimental anti-rollover project.


Truth is, as I add more radios I have to add antennas for them, and some radios need multiple antennas. Right now there's seven radios permanently mounted in the truck, and eleven antennas.

I know... my BIL is a ham operator...

What's his callsign?

DamnifIknow... but I will find out...

I've chatted with a lot of stations down your way. It'd be interesting if one of them was him.