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This has been a great help. I was hoping to join the net tonight while driving across PA. I guess that wouldn't work. I'll just do it with my cell instead.

The part a noob (aka ME) would not understand is where did the 08 come from? Is there a magic decoder ring somewhere you guys keep hidden?

Oh the stories I could tell. I learned my psych warfare from my wife of 44 years.

Not everybody appreciated my humor.

I always wanted to connect a motion sensor to lights and have it play the sound of chambering a shell in a 12 gauge pump and a tent zipper. Maybe my voice saying "Honey, hold my pistol while I get the shotgun"

I posted a thread asking for info on how to get on EchoLink from a 2m radio. If anybody could answer a couple of questions, it would be appreciated. https://www.overlandbound.com/forums/threads/echolink-for-dummies-questions-answerw.24257/

I am a new Ham, but in no way new to radio and communications. I have been designing spread spectrum radios for commercial and military use for years. Getting the Ham license was a breeze because the technical stuff is what I do all day. I have used EchoLink over the web and my cell phone...

Being a test engineer, it is good to see some real world testing in a semi controlled manner instead of random posts with no control.

I wheeled all over Colorado in an XJ with a 2.5L. Never was at a loss for power offroad, but pulling the mountain passes got a bit slow when fully loaded. I loved getting 25mpg+.

I have to argue. I LOVE Spam but what about bacon?

Great test. Are you opening and closing the chest? How much is inside? It should last longer on 12 Vdc since the conversion to 120 Vac and back down entails some losses.

It is a fine line between a hobby and an obsession...……...why can't I see the line?

I didn't say that exactly. I said that tying a solar panel directly to a battery or multiple batteries can lead to problems. If you use a cheap charge controller, it solves the overcharge and discharge issue. If you are tying multiple batteries in parallel, they all need to be of similar...

Being an engineer, I vote for radians.

I take your recipe a bit further. I brown cubed pineapple from the can, the cook down the syrup, add some veggies, water chestnuts, onions, soy, hosin sauce, etc , and put it over chow mein noodles. I call it Spam Polynesian.

Way cool vintage.

Since you were at Los Alamos, did you get to see the Trinity Site?

The hassle with the early Jeep Cherokee XJ is that it is half metric and half English, so you have to carry both sets.

preach it brother