NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Ive been up since 330am everyday this week. No excuses. Thankfully getting home at 6 though

 

i’ve been up since 430,Put in an hour at the gym, ran a mile, then went to work

Suck my (sweaty) balls

 

I've been up since 4:30 and just finished my second beer. I'm ashamed of myself.

 

I walked ~10 miles at work today does that county for anything lol

Finished the third and last for tonight.(wow that sounds like im bragging and trying to be the bigger alcoholic lol) Not ashamed. Also got the belts figured out for the MR2

 

I just switched to whiskey. Shame is gone.

 

That there W990 had D-N-R stock on the right side of the steering wheel.
then a M/A for manual/automatic
then the pseudo paddle shifting of that same stock to push down/pull up to "manually shift"

 

Is it the eaton automated?

 

Lol seriously? Bit of 1792 for me before bed

 

As velillen noted, 446.00 is a 70cm frequency while the 146.52 is a 2m frequency. I'm assuming you have one of the ButtFang dual band Amazon cheapies (I have one too, don't get saucy with me Bernaise....) . 2m should have better range in the backcountry, but neither will be great unless you get lucky.

During "field day" this year, I was able to pick up and transmit back to a guy about 22 miles away, but he was a on a mountain peak and I was on a local high point as well. Both 2m and 70cm are "line of sight", so if you are down in a valley, you aren't going to reach very far.

I see the crusty old HAM dogpile has started on ARFCOM GD too. They seem to think that getting your license actually teaches you something.....

I used the free "Ham Radio Exam - Tech" app from Roy Watson on my iPhone to study. Couple of free website resources for Tech too. Such as https://hamstudy.org/ . Usually General and Extra study apps aren't free, though many online websites are free for all levels.

 

Thermomolding polycarbonate and acrylic plexiglass sucks. Time to try 2 piece silicone mold and pourable clear epoxy resin. I'm gonna make headlight lenses one way or another.

 

I had 2 before the guard shack.

 

Man kids have it easy these days....

https://youtu.be/2mf6AUbjT-s

 

Random story with semi-drunk me....

Back when I was in Montana and skipping school to go skiing/hiking/ect.

Two buddies went out to backcountry skiing. Thankfully we were semi smart and had avy beacons and also had gotten Baofang radios cause way better than commercial crap. But they went out and were hiking up a ridge and stopped to watch a group of three other people drop in. Second person trigger an avy and ended up buried. Buddy 1 hauled ass up the ridge and hopped on the emergency channel. I want to ay it was 15 miles birds eye to the ski patrol at the summit at Big Sky. Thankfully they were listening and deployed within a few minutes. Even more thankfully the two remains people of the three person group made it down and it was a shallow burial so their buddy was easy to recover and he ended up being fine (medically wise). One buddy skied down to them and one friend was one the ridge so they relayed info. Saved a heli ride but the ski patrol came up on sleds to haul them out. We ALL took the next HAM class in Bozeman. Really made you realize the benefit of a powerful radio

 

I could only imagine our guards if they could drink before gaurd duty

 

Love that place but they’re a bunch of self serving righteous twats sometimes. I’ve never been able to learn from a book, i memorize the correct answers and then take the test. Walking away with essentially zero knowledge until i start doing it myself

 

They don’t call it a wretched hive of scum and villainy for nothing!

It’s an interesting dynamic over there at times. “The 2nd amendment is my carry license, screw your state license bullshit” juxtaposed with “ZOMG, don’t you dare transit on HAM without a license from the .gov!”

 

Yes it does, what do you do for work? I average around 5 miles a day not including my workouts?

 

Nuc Inspector for the Navy. Our office is pretty much central in the Shipyard. So its a ~1 mile walk to and from work. Then its a lot of walking from the office to the subs. One of the subs is ~3/4 of mile each way. So depends how busy we are on a particular day but its pretty rare Im not walking at least 5 miles.

 

Nuc as in Nuclear?

 

Yup