Kentucky Adventure Trail PART 2 (KAT) 2022 MAY 26th-30th

Yea CB for sure. I’ve also got 2 hams I can loan out for the poors

Looks good for me. I’m horrible at offroad nav, just drop me a google pin and I’ll be there lol thought you were getting to camp Thursday night?

 

Now I'm confused. CB or ham/gmrs? They're different. They won't work together.

 

We mostly use CB. I do have hams so I can relay messages to someone who don’t have CB.

 

I am lol just didn’t think anyone else is?

 

Yea I took off work Friday, I’ll be coming Thursday night. Small possibility I may come Friday instead but 95% coming Thurs

 

I see you lurking @gixxerphil what’s your thoughts? You coming?

 

I’ll let you know where we at Thursday night then I’ll post in here where we will be staying

 

I'm hoping to. It just depends of funds at this point.......gotta stop buying gun stuffs

 

I will tell you from experience that these are your best friend:
https://www.amazon.com/Baofeng-3800...prefix=baofeng+uv-5r+mob,aps,167&sr=8-2-spons

Or the GMRS only version. Get 10 people together, 4 will have CBs and like only one will work properly

And put me down as a definite maybe

 

Speak for yourself, my CB has only let me down two handfulls of times

 

what did you say

 

Exactly. I ended up taking mine out.

Probably going to replace it with one of these:

$220 BTECH UV-50X2 (Second Gen.) Mobile 50 Watt Dual Band Base, Mobile Radio: VHF, UHF Amateur (Ham)

https://www.amazon.com/BTECH-Mobile...1631130459&sprefix=mobile+GMR,aps,164&sr=8-13

And I have about half a dozen UV-5R handhelds. They're a great handout for the...less prepared

 

Where are y'all coming from? Any idea where you'd want to start? 3 Days really isnt enough time to do the whole thing. We found the area around Harlen to be pretty nice

 

I have one. I have my amateur license so I can do it legally. Well. Not gmrs but still I can use it there. But the speakers are abysmally quiet. I borrowed a handheld FRS this weekend and it was great I could hear them over road noise. The baofengs are just super quiet. Im looking at the radioditty ones as a potential too.

I'll probably grab a handheld cb just to have it. Maybe for this trip maybe not.

 

Harlen, KY. Black Mountain. Good times.

 

I did the opposite. I got my GMRS license but haven't taken the test for HAM.

I figure a coms setup is only as good as the other people you're wanting to talk to. I figure it's easier to get people to get a $70 license with no test vs study and go take a test. Hell I was interested and put it off for years. I can't really expect more out of anyone else.

Hell, I want a radio in the wife's truck. There's NO WAY she's taking the Ham test, but she actually did the paperwork for the GMRS and it covers everyone in the household

 

Birmingham, im not planning on doing the whole thing maybe like half or 3/4ths. Im going from Thursday-Mon. People will be sprinkling in when their schedules permit.

 

I'm flexible, I think it sounds like monday AM people are scrambling form wherever we're at, so that will probably be me too - head out Monday AM sometime. I don't know my arrival plan yet, I don't know what I'm doing that week yet BUT I think @Brian422 was talking about doing some trails on Thursday and I don't want to tag in a stock truck and be an anchor.

 

Okay - Kiboshing the whole plan for the OBX/NC/SC during the week - Hitting up UP I think instead.

Anyway long of the short - puts me coming in right now Friday mid day, I put Harlan. That's probably a bit flexible and will be a bit earlier but that's factoring in a lot of random time and stops to enjoy things - I did a trip where I planned 10-11 AIS and that sucked. I enjoyed my trip when it was 7-8 AIS max, so that's what I'm planning. All that and my stupid little map in my signature will only gain Wisconsin

Anyway - if you get a better idea on routes/times let me know, I can change my plans for that day for where to meet up.

 

Well Boys and girls this time Next month we will be out on the trails of KY