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I wouldn't put Cooper tires on my rig or any family member's vehicles right now. That's all I can say about it, I'm sorry for a lack of information. I'll say that every single manufacture has experienced product failures that have resulted in serious injuries and/or deaths in which the tire...

Sounds time consuming. Considering the cost for the store-brand at HEB I'm not sure if the trade-off would be favorable in my mind.

The ultimate cheat for quick in-camp fires? Fireplace logs! Yes, light the paper and watch it burn, put the crappy wet "authorized for use in the National/State Park" wood you had to buy when you arrived on it and actually get the wood to burn!

TL;DR You need less than you think and training is the most important tool you can carry. The idea of a 36 or 72 hour bag isn't a bag to bug out with. It isn't a long term survival option kit, it is by design a bag to get you through a likely scenario in which you are stranded, with out aid...

Well that's what I'm pulling out of the van, assuming you test it, it functions and I just used a poor install job as an excuse to get the radio I wanted in the first place, I guess some horse trading might be in order.

I was long asleep, thank you though! Friday I spent some time trouble shooting it all, did some more research online, broke out the multimeter then got mad, went to HRO's website and a few clicks later the upgraded radio I wanted with a new antenna cable is coming my way. FT-7900r.

$140 for a Spyderco? Holy cow, I used to carry them in the 90s when they were under $50! This is what I've carried daily for a decade, although it was $100 less back then! The best folder I've ever owned. http://emersonknives.com/shop/knives/cqc-7-the-knives/cqc-7bw-bt/

I strongly recommend not running tires that are more than 5 years old (check the DOT production stamp on the sidewall). Five years seems to be the turning point when tires tend to have an increased chance of a serious failure like a delamination. Get a delam on the highway with an overlanding...

Sure, but it'll be next week, I'm loading up the family adventure van for the long weekend.

30.825709, -96.743862 Just outside of Gause, Texas on CR-264. It is called the Sugarloaf Bridge and is next to, drumroll please...Sugarloaf Mountain. Pull over on the CR, look for the break in the barbed wire fence to the east and take the short hike up to the top for lunch: 30.811751...

146.680- 88.5 (this is the one giving me some trouble) 146.820- 88.5 (good signal, no traffic)

The antenna is mounted to the rack, the rack showed good ground to the van (multimeter), added a ground strap from the rack to the van and things are improving. The repeater closest to me comes back perfectly with the auto ID reply, but no one is ever on it. The repeater most are on still...

You're right, I was a full time officer for nearly 10 years. First you have to make the distinction between first aid kit, trauma kit and medical responder kit. A first aid kit would have things like some ACE bandage wrap, Vet wrap, bandaids, Advil, Benadryl, some bandages of various sizes...

MREs are perfectly fine, you just have to strip them. Since some of my prepper book characters strip MREs in their go bags, I made a video a while back showing how it is done. As for my arm, that's while still recovering from a complete bicep tear tackling a burglar, which was my last patrol...

I would lighten the load a little. 1 lantern, 1 pair of pants,2 shirts, 4 socks. Why 2 tarps? For shelter or for other needs? For shelter you only need 1 to make an open lean-to with ground cover. I'm not a fan of fire steel, I like my flint and steel pouch with char, but I did...

The new antenna is better, (there was definitely something wrong with the Brown quarter wave I had) but things are spotty cutting in and out, I'm thinking perhaps a bad ground? Thoughts?

Awesome! I'm in College Station so Austin is an easy trip. I'll see how the new antenna runs over the next couple days and might have to take you up on some help. I'm far from saying I installed anything correctly.

I'm reading up on this topic right now as I'm studying for General and dreaming of significant upgrades in my mobile comms. The Yaesu 8900 is a single antenna quad band with a couple of companies making multi-coil quadband antennas, but tomorrow a new antenna arrives from HRO (this one a Larsen...

https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/wilson-mobile-4g-50-db-amplifier-kit-460108/ I'm also using the big @$$ trucker antenna on the van. It has done well for me, but better when stationary. Basically it'll take a disappearing bar and make it a couple of bars of 3G, a couple of bars of no-G and...

What material did you use? Did you just drill and tap the cross members? I have plans to do something similar (if not as comprehensive as your setup), but I keep going back and forth on what I want to use.