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Camping and off-roading trip. View Rally Point

What spare mount are you using?

Wow, agreed. :neutral: Other than the gearing change and like half inch increase to ground clearance (:sleeping:), looks like all you're getting is more plastic cladding to break on the trail.

I bet that'd be super helpful to keep your gear load as light as possible. Particularly for SOTA. It's very useful for me as I'm generally making contacts with a mobile unit in my car, so I just pull out my phone whenever I reach me destination and quickly make a log.

If you're on Android (it may be on iOS too but I'm not sure), there's a decent app called Ham Logger that's worth checking out.

Right on. I'm only familiar with my 3rd gen Forester. :laughing: I've got 225/65R17s on it and even those I had to do some trimming to the fender well seam in the rear and shave down a bit of the plastic fender well liners in the front. Although, the trimming in the rear was actually because of...

I'm surprised you were able to get 245/65R17s on there. Did you have to do any trimming to deal with scrubbing issues?

For the Foresters, CVT wasn't released until the 4th gen models (2014). Not sure about any other Subies.

It happened in January.

Nice! Wiring looks super clean. I'm curious what the piece in the middle, next to the two terminal bars, is doing?

Signal is actually fantastic. The repeater that I'm generally communicating through is about 22 miles from my house (as the crow flies), and driving around town I've never had any issues getting a clear signal to or from it. Is your signal usually poor for transmitting, receiving, or both?

Sorry, forgot to get those pics posted. Here's a video:

"and has done everything I've asked of it so far." That's what it's all about right there. Unless there's some specific demand that your vehicle isn't living up to, continuing to build up and out is wasting your hard-earned dollars.

Right on. I'll post some pics tomorrow.

No problem. It works great. I can take some pictures to show how I ran the antenna cable if that'd be helpful.

This mount: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AR09JOQ/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_inactive_ship_o1_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1 With this antenna: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AR09XBK/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_inactive_ship_o0_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've got mine mounted on the edge of the rear hatch.

I've had hitches installed on 2 different vehicles by U-Haul and they've done a great job on both occasions.

Nice! That's actually some pretty cool footage. And look at the butt on that car in front of you. :hearteyes::laughing: