Bob Myers

Well, the key is, apparently, that you never finish anything. That way you always have something to do to occupy the few spare minutes you thought you may have.

That almost looks staged, except for the bent cover. Man o man are you fortunate that it wasn't going any faster or slower when it dug in. Either one would have had a far worse ending.

Well said Brian! I never thought of sealing it with silicone, I just took the lazy way out!

Presently I am all over the place, check into net on 80m around 7pm when I remember it, another net on 6m when the guy running it remembers to do it, rag chew 2m and 1.25m for a couple hours each night. Kenwood TS 2000 rig On this tower(this is my second one) I'll have a 2m/440 vertical on top, and on a horizontal boom about 6 foot below there will be a 2m beam on one side, and a 1.25m beam on the other. 220 is starting to revive in this area and most of the people talking are just far enough away that a vertical is barely adequate. My original tower still has a 6m vertical and a 6m beam on it. Some fool needs to climb it and work on the rotor. It also has my 80m skyloop which is 157 foot long. With the new tilting tower I'll only have to use the permanently mounted winch to let it down it something up there needs attention

I run a Nuvi 250 on Tina's bike, a Nuvi780 on my bike(s), neither have ever shown any indication of vibration related problems. We carry a couple sandwich bags and a rubber band or three to cover them if it rains. Never had one quit because it got wet. Sierra sells a kit to adapt any of the handheld C(rappy) B(and) radios to 5 pin DIN as your rsv uses, that is where I started and ended up building my own interface when we went to 2m ham radios. Our experience with the Ht was as said above, 50 foot is good for them until you add a real antenna, then ¼ mile is usually good at 5 watt output. As for the coax cable; run it however you want, cut off the excess and toss it. Put a new end on and never think about it again. Those who say that coax length affects SWR do not have a resonant antenna to begin with. The feed line in a proper antenna will not affect the SWR. If you don't feel comfy cutting it then use a truck mirror mount with a SO 239 mount on the bottom to screw a standard PL259 coax onto, but a premade 9 foot coax and run it along the frame work to your radio. The mirror mount best used is aluminum, available at any truck stop and can be drilled easily to mount any where you want to mount it with existing bolts. For an antenna the best choice is something with a center load, that takes the transmitting section of the antenna to the top above the load, usually getting it up over where your body would be blocking it. If that isn't available then one of the ugly 4 foot fiberglass antennas would be next choice. These both usually are of a "no ground plain" variety and will work better.

Only ground contact is the 4 vertical post, they are copper clad 8 foot long ground rods, welded to the rest of the structure and driven over 5 foot each into the undisturbed clay base. Yes, only form used is the 4 inch raised section in the center that will be visible after I throw sod down around the rest

It is a folding tower, hinges over at 16 from the ground. Self supporting means no guy wires. No back fill needed, I poured all the way to level with the ground, with a 40" square raised section in the center to be above ground level. Your recommendation of 2 weeks gives me ample time to finish the booms and mast that go on top of it Here is a picture of it when it was being taken down for me to purchase.

I dug a hole. 7 ft x5ft x 5ft deep, filled it with concrete(2500psi). Roughly how long will this take to cure well enough to erect my antenna? My answers so far are leave it alone and don't touch it to even remove forms for a month. Sounds mighty long time to wait don't it? There will be a 60' self support tower going on this block

Aint that weird. If I click the globe it takes me to the post office in Richmond Ky. I had no idea the 2 maps were not related, but it does ease the frustration level knowing that. I can stop moving my pin around now.

Yes Ma'am I did. If I go to the tab at the top and click Member map, then click the tab that say"your entry" it locates me within 20 foot of my driveway but if you click on the globe in a thread it puts me back at the post office.

I'd clean that up with a grinder to look like the bubble gum weld was never on there. Then take a very sharp center punch and make a row of very small dots all the way around the circumference of the pin in the center where it goes into the banjo type rod end. You want it to swell the diameter some but not so much it takes a lot of force to reinstall. Then lightly tap the rod back into the hole.

Congrats Tom! My wife and I had our 29 about 3 weeks ago.

when you click my globe it takes you to the main post office in town. Just because my picture is on the wall is not indicative that I live there. I corrected my "pin" on the map and then clicked my globe again and it still takes me to the post office.

Seemed too easy of a fix. I have a friend in the starter/alternator business but I figured i would get a more clear answer here than from asking him. He probably would have told me there wouldn't be enough room to install the proper amount of smoke.

you can buy a 4 brush plate with new brushes on it for less than $20.00, can you swap the plate with the 2 brush plate? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Starter-Brush-plate-brushes-SM-13-/251248882224?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3a7f99b230&vxp=mtr

Hello my friend, I'm always an email away, or, since I deleted all the pm I thought I had to save that works again too! Not riding the Venture, title issues have forced me to put it in storage until hell freezes over or Ky decides to honor a dying mans wishes. I belive I should probably trust in the first one

New Toyota running around here have the thrid brake light flash and not go steady on. I figured it was a fluke on the first one or two I saw but I have seen dozens of them like that.

Mike, There is no way you could said it any better or with any more sincerity!

I have also dropped a few $$ in the bucket. Mike has been responsible for me being able to sell my "snagglestuds" and this is the least I can do in kind.

Brave man, $1200 worth of goodies in a tank bag. scary thought for me. My wife and I both have the FTM10 on our bikes, and with our "optional" 4 foot glass whip we have logged bike to bike at 20 miles. Repaters 40 miles are easy enough with that antenna but I just don't like it so i don't use it often. I have a couple of the small comet dual band antenna on the bike normally. Built an interface for the helmet headset(stock 5pin DIN) so my helmet works on the Vulcan or my Yamaha(if I ever get title straightened out so i can ride it again). Feed a sirius in the line-in port and you have the audio world at your fingertips. HF on a bike would for me be too much distraction, no place to hang my 80m 154 foot long skyloop.

Luke, I still have a few of these left if you are interested! Pm sent on the subject

Nice setup, like it!

It was limited production, didn't go over as well as the 50w version. I just bought a new Yaesu, the FTM 350 for my car, should be here on Friday

Yes! What he said Randy, the FTM is designed for motorcycle/ATV use and is by far the toughest radio I have ever beat on and mis-used! With a 4' glass whip I have talked simplex over 25 miles to wife on base from my bike, easily hit repeaters as far or farther. I'd love to do the android app thing for my APRS but I don't have one of those smart phones, mine is stupid, all it will do is phone calls-not even text capable. But that is making me want one quite badly!

I have some pictures of my Vulcan setup posted here; http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/motoradio/photos/album/0/list?order=mtime You may have to join the yahoo group to see them but it is unmoderated so it'll only take a couple clicks to do so