E1736: (REPLAY) We're BACK from Moore Expo! What Happened
Recap of our trip to Moore Expo 2026
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Speaker 1: Good evening and happy Sunday AM Radio two point oho
Live stream. Thanks for joining us, guys.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get started here shortly, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I show seven o'clock in Texas, so we're going
to transition right there. Hey, welcome to the show. Welcome back,
Happy Sunday, Happy warm weather. Day was thirty four degrees
when I woke up this morning. Where I woke up
this morning, it was thirty four degrees. And as soon
as I got home, I took off my long sleeve
T shirt and switched into shorts from my pants because
it's like eighty five here or something crap like that. So,
but welcome back to Texas. I love it, and uh,
that's just how it is. So I hope you guys
who uh who hung out with us at the Morexpo
had a good time. Appreciate everyone being there, Appreciate y'all
showing up, hanging out, coming to talk to us and whatnot.
And we all had a really good time. And I'm
just gonna hop right over here and switch these guys
on and we're going to unmute, unmute. There you go.
What's up everyone? Hey, Hey, hey, Bill's still driving.
Speaker 2: On the road.
Speaker 3: Bill, how you guys doing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so uh we uh we we. Uh So Jeremy,
my friend Jeremy who lives locally here, which all y'all
gotten to meet except for Freddy mcacors uh brought a
bottle of one of those like one point seventy five
liter bottles of larceny. So we we honored the Freddy
mclarsony tradition and uh destroyed that bottle. It took us
about three nights and we destroyed that bottle. So that's I.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I made Kyle drink So Kyle's not a big bourbon guy,
but I went and poured him a cup. I have
those little, uh little shot glass the the Dixie cup
shot glasses left over from hamcasion. So I went and
poured him and I was like, here, Kyle, drink this,
and he's like, oh boy.
Speaker 5: I guess I was a little uptight that night.
Speaker 2: Somebody gets some down, Kyle.
Speaker 4: Uh didn't you say we're gonna make this a permanent tradition.
Speaker 3: The first night is the Freddie mag night.
Speaker 1: I mean that that sounds like a good plan to me.
That's totally, really really good plan to me. Thank you,
Glenn for the super chat. Uh yeah, Bill does not
have a Peter Bilt. He's got a kilt built, kilt built. Okay,
kilt Bill. Yeah, we'll talk about mister kilt here shortly.
But uh yeah, So what the So the big question,
the question that the first question I saw is so
what did you buy? How much did you spend? I
didn't actually buy much. I bought a new towel I bought,
I bought. I bought a hoodie because I forgotten my
hoodie and I needed a hoodie last night, so I
went in there and bought a more Expo twenty twenty
six hoodie. So it's dated, and it's really pretty soft. Uh,
not real heavy, you know, I got. I got two
or three hoodies that are real heavy. It's like, you know,
if it's a little chilly outside, they're too much. So
I like the lighterweight hoodies to use sometimes, and this
one was more of a lighterweight hoodie. And I bought
this hat because it was the Richardson one twelve hat
and I couldn't not buy it. Bought my I bought
some soaps from my wife, gave those to her earlier.
And I don't think I really got much else. But
what'd you guys get.
Speaker 6: Let's see, I I didn't buy. I mean, I bought
a few things. But the scary part is is I
think I found the thing that I'm going to buy.
Speaker 1: You bought. You bought into a couple of ideas that
are going to cost you.
Speaker 6: Later exactly exactly, exactly, so exactly. I bought, uh, you know,
I bought this fancy kind of dirt bag or garbage
bag or however you want to think about. Yeah, thing
that keeps all your dirty things in one place outside
of your tent or outside of your rig or however
you want to think about it. So I bought that.
I bought a T shirt I bought. Oh, I bought
the the DeVos DeVos five hundred light, which I really like.
That's very cool. I bought a little it's like a
wax impregnated piece of rope that's a fire starter.
Speaker 7: Oh that's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: I've heard oh yeah, yeah, where you just kind of
trim it and then you can, you know, use a
striker or something to light it. So I picked one
of those up. I bought some soaps as well. Yep, yep,
gotta gotta keep everyone happy. Got some soaps as well, yeah,
I think that's I think that's really it. But like
I said, you know, the scary part is I got
this ten off cubon for something that I have to
order this that's gonna probably cost more than what everybody bought.
Speaker 1: The the coupon expires in a week. Is that what
you're saying? Okay, yeah, okay, I thought I took a
picture of Brian's rig but I'm apparently I didn't. So
because i'm not, I'm going through some of my I
was gonna share some pictures. I'm going through some of
my pictures here and I don't have if one of
you guys has a picture of his rig or or
just a picture of the of the of the Alu cab.
Speaker 6: Rob Yeah, I got some pictures of that.
Speaker 1: I can turn sharing on.
Speaker 6: And I think I've got some here somewhere.
Speaker 1: They moved a bunch of stuff around and zoom and
host tools. There we go, h anticipants.
Speaker 6: It'll it'll take me, It'll take me a minute.
Speaker 1: There's no yeah, no rush on that at all. So
what what thro that?
Speaker 4: I'll I'll just tell you what I bought, Okay, So
is that all right?
Speaker 3: I bought the PP accessories.
Speaker 4: There was there was a guy who had some really
cool magnetic ideas and this is just only a sample
for holding definite accessories in close positions.
Speaker 3: And so I bought the one that's the.
Speaker 4: Seatback rack with the truck, with the larger definitive I
can't even talk. And I bought the one basic. They're
really strong magnets that you.
Speaker 1: Can mount, good quality.
Speaker 4: And I bought the small fire starter cubes that you
could make yourself, but I'm not going to do it,
so I bought it. The zippos that that company sells,
So I got the zip o And also, I'll let Kyle.
Speaker 3: Tell you about the table.
Speaker 4: If you guys want, head on over to Kyle's channel
and watched the video about the table. But we we
bought one not exactly like that, but similar.
Speaker 3: So that's that's pretty much. Oh I got. Yeah, that's enough.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that was enough.
Speaker 2: Those magnets was for your wireless hope whole puncher.
Speaker 7: Yeah mm hmm remote remote hold puncher.
Speaker 1: Remote remote wireless.
Speaker 7: Yeah, standoff.
Speaker 1: Kyle got a new back windows for his flated topper
and yeah, that was a cool story. Why don't you
tell that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so.
Speaker 8: Sorry, I So I got this flated topper to a
topper that goes on the back of your truck that inflates,
and they had an old window. So it's just a
vinyl window that velcrowde on. And I punctured mine in
Colorado last year. Whenever we were out in Array and
I bought it.
Speaker 1: It was like your first trip with it, wouldn't.
Speaker 5: It first major trip?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
Speaker 8: So uh came back and and bought a new one,
bought a new back window. Hadn't even taken it out
of the in Colorado last year whenever, Oh I'm getting feedback.
Speaker 5: Oh okay. So punctured the window, bought a new one, didn't.
Speaker 8: Take it out of the uh the packaging, and then
Flated made a new window that you can pump up
and it kind of like automatically. Uh you can you
can put it in like an up position, because whenever
you pushed this vinyl window up, it would always like
fall down. So I went over there and said, hey,
I just bought a window. It's still in the packaging.
And then I also said I'm going to do a
video on this. And then once I told him I
was going to do a video on it all things change.
Speaker 6: Well, well, first of all, Kyle, whenever he came over
and uh you said, oh yeah, I've got aflated, and
the guy's face is like you could just tell He's like,
oh boy, is this going to be a good conversation?
Did I sit down at the right table?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: To back that up, that conversation was the night before
when we were at the qui quat whatever the.
Speaker 1: Keyword couette at the k word place.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So yeah, we were at an event the night
before and he just happened to sit down right in
front of me and we started talking and I'm like, yeah,
I'm going to get that back window.
Speaker 5: And then we made it, and uh, here we are.
So I bought that.
Speaker 8: I bought the I also have a video on my
RV channel about what Bill said a camping table. Well,
they had a smaller version at the show, so I
bought that instead of the big one that I bought
at Costco.
Speaker 5: So I'm going to sell the one that I bought
from Costco.
Speaker 8: And then I got a pewpew holder too, and a
couple of T shirts from Becker's Supply, and that was
my purchase for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Uh, customer service, and as I'm as I understand it,
the Flated customer service is pretty top notch.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I literally I called them as soon as I got
back from Colorado and said, hey, I put a hole
in this, and they're like, hey, do you want us
to send out some tape? And I'm like, no, no, no,
I want to buy a new window. And they're like, oh,
you just purchased, you know, a flated topper. We'll give
you forty percent off for the window. So flated if
you're if you're watching here, you gave and I was
able to keep the old window. So not only did
I get the VIP discount and keep the window, but
they refunded my money for the forty percent that they
gave me on the old windows.
Speaker 5: So I came out smelling like a rose.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good customer service from those guys. They're they're nice folks.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I like that table chair camping combination that they got there.
Speaker 5: Yeah they have a couch now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing that on their website. Have a couch.
It's it's I don't know, it's nice. It's sturdy, it's
it's it's sturdy, but it's kind of not sturdy. You
could tell it's very well made, but you kind of
rock in it and it kind of moves around. It's
not the I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's not it's not bob proof.
Speaker 1: It's not bob proof. No, it's absolutely not bob Proof.
Speaker 7: I think bob proof had has stages of larceny. Yeah, yeah,
it's how how deep into the lars.
Speaker 1: It's not Saturday night. It's not Saturday night, eleven thirty pm.
Bob proof, for sure. Proof is the operable word, right right, proof? Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 8: I think those chairs were like a gag and then
it became a thing, and.
Speaker 1: Then they and then everybody. It's kind of like uh
Bill's kilt, I guess, right right yeah.
Speaker 7: With optional tak sak.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I love my flat at top or it's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah yeah, good deal. Uh Bill of Tim,
what'd you get anything?
Speaker 7: Uh? Well, so so, uh let's see what did I get? Oh?
I got a new one of those. I think it's
Fox den is the brand, uh the camping towel.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I go, yeah, I got one of those.
Speaker 7: Got a second one so I bought the one last year. Uh.
Based on Bill's recommendation from the year before. So I
bought it. I bought a second one to have and
you never know when you're gonna need more than one
through a camping trip.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: And and they're small and in lightweight. They also had
a a wooby they.
Speaker 1: Had Oh yeah, yeah, so they did.
Speaker 7: Yes, has has snaps in it and you can pull
it up over and also snap a hood in so
you can you can have something to stay warm around
the campfire. Mm hmm, yeah, when you don't have the
hot tent.
Speaker 5: What what did you call it?
Speaker 1: Woo It's like it's like a it's like a blanket
that you wear that's got sleeves.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm thinking of mister mom and.
Speaker 7: The So that's that's funny you mentioned that. And that's
kind of where the military picked it up.
Speaker 1: It's been too long since I've seen that. I don't
get that reference.
Speaker 7: Uh that that's the military. They called her their sleeping bank, blanket,
sleeping bags and stuff like that. They call him Woobi's We'll.
Speaker 2: Be It was the security blanket at the kid right.
Speaker 1: Oh, Okay, Creddie McK and I are on the same page. Okay,
I've seen that movie. It's been a long time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys may have even been in the same
row and possibly the same seat.
Speaker 1: All right, So here's a question. This is good. I
like this right here, David Pearson, compared to last year,
did you see more interested in him radio from people
attending more expo this year? And I think my answer
to that, I know, I want to hear it from
from all you guys. Did Bill drop Yeah?
Speaker 7: Okay, well I think he's still there.
Speaker 1: No, he's still there. He just turned off his video. Okay,
that's fine. I saw and people people actually watched my
livestream because I saw several people there that were like, hey,
I brought my radio this time. And I'm like, great,
that's awesome.
Speaker 7: Did just turn it on?
Speaker 1: Because and some of some of them did. Not everybody,
but some of them did. Because every year I go
to more Expo, including this year. This happened this year. Also,
you know, I'll meet someone who's a HAM radio operator.
He's like, oh, hey, I didn't know you guys came
to this and uh, which means I don't watch the
channel very much, but that's okay. So and they're like
oh yeah, and I'm like, oh, well, we're on six
top five two, so just get on talk to this.
I didn't bring a radio, so I'm always like, bring
your radio to these events. You never know, you never
know who's gonna be there. But I think there was
probably just as many, if not a few more Ham
radio operator people, but outside our group. Outside our group,
we met Brian that camp next to us, Hector, who
we met last year. He was there with us this time.
Of course, Bob was there. Bob's a Ham guy. Who
else was it? There was at least two or three
other guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: There was a guy that I met whenever you're getting
your sweatshirt, and he had an antenna poking out of
this yeah bag. And I'm like, gm r S Ham
radio and he was Ham Radio. I'm like, ok, good answer, good.
Speaker 1: I met before. No, go ahead, Rob, No, I.
Speaker 6: Was just gonna say, that's when we were doing the
beer swap, right, Kyle.
Speaker 5: Yes, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8: This was whenever you were getting your T shirts. There
was a guy in line behind you.
Speaker 6: Oh oh oh, yes, I remember that. But there was
also my friend Justin.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Justin from Saint Louis has got his hand radio license.
Speaker 6: Okay, right, But in addition to justin. There was somebody
else that had walked up to the group kind of
towards the end. Who Yeah, who was.
Speaker 7: The older the older guy with the beard and the
the lock.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he was interested in ham radio too, Yes, correct,
but he had he does not have his license.
Speaker 7: So so there's there's an older gentleman that was walking around. Uh,
gray Beard had cover all on and he.
Speaker 3: Had with him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we talked a little bit. He's trying to get
back into HF again.
Speaker 1: Doesn't Dennis have his license? Kyle, Oh, you're right, Dennis
Creech just got his license. That's not I don't think
that's who Tim is talking about. But Dennis, the hiker guy, Dennis,
he has his licenses. Well I did not hear Dennis
on the air that I recall, but but yeah, he
was there. And then of course our friend Damien that
camped behind us again this year, of course he was
there again.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was yeah, there was two or three
other people that were there. So there was a guy
that pulled when we went to when we left today,
we went to BUCkies and we were filling up and
some guy waved at me and I'm like, oh, hey guy,
and he had a jeep with that was decked out
and he's just waving to me because I've got junk.
I got a bedrock with stuff on it. Right, He's like, hey, man,
what's going on. Well, he pulled around and he's a
Ham and he watches the channel. His name was HWLE.
I don't remember QLE. I'm sorry, I don't remember your
call sign. He did tell me what it was. But
he said that they had come up there and looked
for us and couldn't find us. And I'm like, well,
where's your radio? And He's like he had actually, and
I felt bad for him. I didn't want to give
him hard time. He said he had wrecked his jeep.
He was in his wife's jeep, which doesn't have a
HAM radio in it. He had wrecked his jeep a
few a few days before, so it was in the
shop and he he didn't have a radio with him.
I'm like, well, dude, you can. You can have a handheld.
But when he said he wrecked his jeep, I felt
bad for hims. I didn't I didn't want to, but
that they were there too.
Speaker 6: They also had a goat, Yes, they.
Speaker 1: Had a goat. She had a goat with her in
the truck. In the truck a little baby goat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty funny. But yeah, it was, it.
Speaker 6: Was actually it was. It was the same woman. If
you guys remember last year, I remember a woman walking
around with a goat on a leash.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Same, So so she's not a different goat. I
didn't even think to ask a different goat. Uh so, yeah,
so she does it, I believe, I don't believe she
has her hand license, but he does so. Uh so
that's cool. So we wouldn't get them, get them to
bring their radios next year as well. But but that
was good. That was good to see. So yeah, I
think really good Ham Radio present.
Speaker 5: Talk.
Speaker 1: Tons of meshtastic, yeah, a lot of Yeah, but.
Speaker 6: Let's not go to that yet because I thought one
of the coolest comments was, you know we had it
was this was almost like we planned it, but we didn't.
You know, with all the dicey weather, everybody was trying
to get weather updates and understand what was going on
with the weather, and of course we were plugged into
the weather nets and listening to the weather nets, so
we were getting the most up to date information from
every county around us, and somebody.
Speaker 1: Up, somebody up to well, the Nixie Amateur Radio Club.
They gave us the skyworn the local skywron repeater information,
so we were turned into local local two meters skyworn repeater.
Speaker 8: So Julie came over right, and Julia was listening to
the skyworn net and she was like, this is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So she was way way I mean, I think she
has her tech. She might have her general yeah, and
she had no idea that like sky worn was a thing.
So now she's all all into good good.
Speaker 6: Welcome to another part of Ham Radio.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 7: So while uh to follow up with Robert, while everybody
had gotten just general updates but not actually what was
going on, some people left a lot of the foax
Landers took their expensive rigs and parked them in a barn.
And the Ham Radio operators we knew what was going on,
and we just left her. We just stayed out there
in the.
Speaker 5: Hot tent and that's right, yea, and smoked cigars.
Speaker 1: Well I did spoke well the UH and Gazelle tent.
You guys don't watch my show as she would, but hey,
Gazelle tents. You guys prevailed once again, had really good shelter.
I mean we didn't have any hail, okay, no tornadoes,
and we had some pretty good wind gusts and a
lot of heavy rain and the gazelle tent beat them all.
It was. It was perfectly fine for uh. And we
were sitting in the gazel tent with a firing in
the middle. Well one night we did. We didn't have
a fire ring that night of the of the rain
because it was actually warm out that day, but we
had one last night. And uh, and that's that's yeah,
gazelle tint for the wind once more.
Speaker 7: Sweet and not. I don't I don't think one that
one gazelle, gazebo or tent uh collapsed in as far
as I know. Nobody had water in their tents. And
it it no lighting, no thunder, but we had some
serious downpour for for quite a while which was there.
Speaker 1: There was a bit of lightning and thunder. It lightning.
I saw a little bit of lightning. I heard some
thunder in the distance and nothing overhead.
Speaker 6: Uh that that Uh. The lady who had the two dogs,
the two rescue dogs who kept coming around looking for
weather updates. Right, we became the weather station. She kept
coming around for weather updates. She said she got nervous
at the end and she broke down, and she she
moved into the fox Landers protective barn, protected building, right,
and she said when all that rain hit, they ended
up with six to eight inches of water going through that.
Speaker 1: Barn, inside the barn, inside.
Speaker 6: The barn, because that barn sits beneath a parking lot, right,
that's about the size of a football field, and so
with all that rain hitting that parking lot and not
being able to penetrate it, it just ran downhill.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yep, we were the smart ones.
Speaker 1: We're like, we're gonna weather this out. We're gonna we're gonna.
Speaker 6: Say we're gonna we did good.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just sit here. And yeah, somebody told us
that Springfield had a bubble that all the storms end
up going around it. And for the most part that
we got some heavy rain, but all the all the
red and the yellow on the radar went around us.
We got some green, heavy rain and that was that
was about a little bit of yellow.
Speaker 5: That's the Missouri bubble we have here, and we call
it the Arch effect.
Speaker 1: The Arch effect. That's good. The storm seas that arch
and it turns here.
Speaker 8: Just like it's coming one way, and then, let's.
Speaker 7: Be fair, the arches on the other side of the state.
But I think because we had Kyle there and a
couple other Saint Louis Natives, we got it by proxy.
Speaker 1: Could be could be Yeah, that's good. Okay, So KB
five U t I is in the chat Welcome Dave.
So I was thinking about this driving home. I was like,
I'm trying to go through in my head about vendors
we should invite next year and seed Studios needs to
make an appearance now to be fair. The number of
people I feel you guys, correct me if you think
I'm wrong. The number of people who know what meshtastic
is and these overland communities is is kind of small.
There are meshers there. We were talking to people on
mesh Core and mesh Tastic, both more mesh Tastic than
mesh Core. And Bill had a mesh Core repeater mounted
to his truck, so we were kind of golden on
the mesh Core stuff there. But there were a lot
more ad hoc stations on meshtastic. Just good morning, how
is everyone? I found this cool deal in this tent,
this kind of thing, so kind of like camventionon or Hamcashon.
Not as not as active as those places, but there
was definitely some mesh activity going on there and there
always has been. Was it it was? It was the
first year Bill came with us, so three or four
years ago whenever that was. Bill brought his T deck
Lilygo T deck, whichever version of it he has, and
he's sitting there talking to people on Meshtastic and this
was probably before I. I don't know if I had
one or not, but I didn't bring it that time.
And and he meets up with these guys inside the
show and they're just talking about Meshta and I'm like, Okay,
I gotta start carrying Meshtastic with me now. So I
think there's a lot. I think there's a large opportunity here.
Speaker 6: To do all the mesh curious people.
Speaker 1: Right, to set up a booth and have some documentation
that you can hand out to people about training material,
and to do a forum about Meshtastic at at these places.
So put that in your in your thinking cap and
smoke on it for about eleven and a half months,
and we we'd like to Yeah, already pushed the idea
to seat studio, probably going to snag a booth and
spread the word good, good, excellent.
Speaker 7: I think we could we could probably do a mesh
asterisk mesh asterisk class, Yeah, a radio HAM Radio General class.
Maybe even some weather stuff too. I think they could
probably benefit from some some weather, a weather course and
parks on the air or something like that. Starts showing
people how you can do more with amateur radio than
just because when you when you compare gm rs and
HAM on seventy centimeters, there's there's no difference. You're you're
not other than you get more power and you.
Speaker 1: Got Yeah, yeah, there's not hmee, yeah, there's not.
Speaker 9: It's not a Still, there were curious people who saw
our antennas, especially like Ice Screwdriver, and they say, hey, hey,
what what is this and they get he like they
kind of knew.
Speaker 4: So there are there are hf curious people as well.
Speaker 7: There there was a number of people that stopped and
took pictures of the trucks because of the antennas. Yeah,
so because because Bill and myself were parked side by
side with our well and Paul, so all three of
us had a screw driver intent on the front of
our trucks side by side. Hector had his also on
his that that kind of stood out. I didn't see
any antennas on Rob's truck, and I'm not sure what
that's all about.
Speaker 1: It's too new to right now. So yeah, so that's
so reading the chat here this is these are good ideas.
So yeah, Dave's on board with that. Not this year
or not last year. For the first three years I
was at the show, I was asked to give a
form about you comparing ham Radio to GMRS to CB
to f r US and all that, and I did
that and I think those were pretty well attended, and
for whatever reason they didn't they didn't ask me to present.
Now I could have signed up myself, and I should have.
There was a guy doing a GMRS class I think
this year, and I meant to go to that yesterday
and I just forgot about it. I think Parks on
the Air, I think that is a great idea.
Speaker 6: Tim.
Speaker 1: I think to have a Parks on the Air class
would be an excellent idea. I think we should push
the the all Roads Taken badges and show them how
you can get a badge for all the national and
state parks and whatnot. We're going to have a ham
benched twenty twenty six badge by the way, guys awesome,
So that's gonna be fun. I talked to those guys
for like fifteen minutes on Friday. They were they're very
interested in getting more involved with the amateur radio stuff.
And so I'm trying to think of people who would
do well. I've been trying to get Jim from Ledo
Mounts to come to this show. I think he would
do I think he would do very well. Oh yeah,
because he's got he's got some systems that are much
more universal than bullet Point mounting solutions, which are excellent mounts.
I own two of them. They weren't there this year
or last year. There was a new company this year.
Remember what they're called.
Speaker 6: Rob track Point. Was that it.
Speaker 1: I don't think this point would bullet point track track something. Yeah,
And they were, yeah, they were, and they look like
really good mounts too, But they had him for like
later model Forwards, later model Jeeps, later model Leedo mounts
is much more universal. He's just like, you know, this
goes on your seat bolt. Well, every every car has
a seat bolt that bolts the seat in the car, right.
So I think Jim at Leedo Mounts would be an
excellent vendor at this show. I also think, and I'm
gonna I'm gonna email Mark get better safe radio. I
email with him all the time. I think a GMRS
radio vendor that is not one of the two that
we had there. I'm just gonna leave that right there.
I think I think a GMRS radio vendor with with
the with the features that Mark ads to his radios
and the price point of his radios would do it
incredibly well. And he can sell Ham radios also if
he wants to limit it and say we have to
have a Ham radio license. But here's some Ham radios
and here's what these do that. These don't do that
kind of thing because there's a lot of Hams that
attend these events. It's not as big as like Hamcash
and him mention, of course, but I'm like, it'd be
cool to get somebody like that. So I'm I would
like to find some tac form. Is that it? Jeff says,
tac form question Mark, Yeah, that's it. So I would
like to find I'm going to write, I'm going to
start writing down some ideas of vendors that I think
would do well at this show next year and try
to get some more not necessarily Ham radio vendors, but
like adjacent vendors. Something that would do with Leo Mounts
works for everybody, right see uh meshtastic of course works
for multi you know, I t SM band, don't have
to have a license this kind of thing. Somebody like that.
Speaker 6: I think Tim's onto something though, right to show the
differentiators of Ham radio, yes, compared to gmrs. Right, here's Hey,
there's nothing wrong with gmrs. If you want to talk,
you know, rigged to rig more power to you. But
if you want to do more than that, and these
are the things that are more than that, I think
that's valuable.
Speaker 7: When I when I started crossing over out of the
out of the overlanding into the amateur radio, that's what
I was doing was parks on the air on the tailgate,
showing people how you could do more in your rig
with radio than just rigged to rig communication. And that's
what started drawing the Ham radio operators to the to
the overlanding channel. And people saw it, they saw, hey,
there's there's more to this than than that. When And
then of course the two incidents happened that year where
the one couple died because they got their RV stuck
out there and then their tow vehicles stuck no no
form of communication out out in blm Land, and then
the positive one where the the guy in in Death
Valley got stranded, was able to use his radio get
a hold of somebody on the east coast with his
GPS coordinates, they were able to call back to the
ranger station and get him the assistance that that he needed.
So you know, there's there's there's benefit in having it.
And you know, we go out and we do these
things just by going out in the park. It's practice
every time we string an antenta up and and and
do those things. And so everybody can do it. You
don't have to. You don't have to geek out on
it kind of like we do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you don't have to know, no, but you will, Yeah,
but you.
Speaker 7: Will when you can sit out there now you could
you could be around the campfire now with a small
portable radio listening this stuff, doing a parks activation while
you're sitting at the campfire, camping overnight too, out in the.
Speaker 6: Middle of nowhere.
Speaker 7: I mean you just did you just out in Joshua Tree, Yes,
and do that kind of thing. I mean it's fun entertainment.
Speaker 1: Yes. So this is a good comment here, and I
want to talk about We talked about this real quick,
and then I want to talk about something else I
just thought of. I'll circle back to it. Dave KB
five U two wise talking to neuron Web about mesh
Tastic versus mesh Core. Mesh mesh Core is great. I'm
getting more into mesh cour I'm really enjoying it. Again.
Bill had a mesh Core repeater on his truck that
he drives down the highway with, so we had to benefit.
We had the benefit of mesh Core at the camp
this weekend. But mesh Tastic is more ad hoc, and
I think that would work better for these folks if
they're driving caravanning together, car pulling something like that, camping together,
a mesh Tastic ad hoc network would would be a
little bit more official for these guys. So I agree
with that statement, Dave. I think you're correct. Yeah, Ham
radio prep would be good, I think. And there was
someone else I just thought of a minute ago. Who
was it. I can't remember I was I'm trying to
read the chat and I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 3: But Ham Radio Prep was there, and he was there.
Speaker 1: And he was there, but they didn't have a booth. Yeah, yeah,
he did set up a table outside the uh the
Nixie I Amateur Radio, the MCom trip. Oh, that's what
it was. Sky warn. Someone in the chat mentioned doing
a skyworn for him, Yeah, explaining what skyworm is. Because
I wonder how many Yes, I wonder how many of
these I get asked this question all the time. You
guys have seen my truck, or at least some of
you have. I'll pull up it's in the thumbnail of
this video. We Uh, these guys were these guys were in.
All of these guys except for Freddie Mack because he wouldn't.
All of these guys in the in the chat right
now were huge, huge helps from installing this awning on
the back of my truck this week. So this is
my Taruka awning that that we put on there. And
they were I was.
Speaker 5: Busy providing the energy for you guys to correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you cooked and then you and then you escaped
and went and showered. So but uh, but that was
a chore to getting it there.
Speaker 4: Four.
Speaker 1: It didn't take four of us, but four of us
worked on it. It was easier with four of us than
it would have been for me to do it alone.
But I wonder how many of you ham Uh, I'm sorry,
how many of you overland guys who have rigs that look,
you know, similar to mine, kind of like mine, maybe
not like mine? How many of you get asked, hey,
do you chase tornadoes? Because I'll just pull out, I'll
be pumping gas in a gas station and I'll have
people come up to you and say, hey, man, that's
a cool looking rick. Do you chase tornadoes? And I'm like, well, yeah,
I kind of sometimes. I mean, I haven't done it
in a while, but that's kind of how I got
started in ham radio. So I wonder how many Overlanders
get asked that question. So I think that sky Worn
would be an excellent course to talk about totally, to
talk about, you know, just how what it is, how
it does. We could partner with the with the local
Hamm Radio club and their Skyworm repeater, and we could
have them do like a like a demo net or
something for like a like a two or three minute
thing on the repeater and that kind of thing and
do a check it because they're all linked repeaters, right,
so they can check in this is this county, this county,
this county. So that'd be something to think about right there.
I haven't seen Dave Gae in the chat, but maybe
you know what.
Speaker 8: We could do is next year, you know, there's you know,
I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's.
Speaker 8: Some some stuff we could easily see if the organizers
would allow us to say, hey, come over to our
campsite at two pm and we're gonna you know, do
some ad hoc stuff asking questions about Skywarren and Ham
Radio and parks on the air if they don't entertain
a direct forum you know, for us to engage.
Speaker 1: Or you know what, Yes, you agreed.
Speaker 6: If we had enough people, we could do like a
Ham Radio village, right, kind of like they do at
def Con, but you know, not exactly what they're doing there,
but you guys get the point, right. If we have
enough folks, we could set up various examples of Ham Radio.
Speaker 8: YEP and Mestastic in mess Core could totally be part
of that. Oh yeah, just a whole communications you know,
section where we're talking gmrs, differences between the protocols, how
to get your license, things to do after you get
your your license, skyworn if you want to.
Speaker 5: You know, it's endless, right.
Speaker 6: Totally, and an introduction to every category. Something brief to
light that fire.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, and you have like just you know, somebody
sitting at a at a table and you put the
you know, the the topic in front of you and
somebody comes up and says, oh, what's this about? And
then you have your three minute elevator speech and then
they move on to the next topic if they don't
have any interest or that does not seem interesting to them.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 1: Boom Boondock Technologies is in the house. Bo that creators
of the Boondock echo. So welcome, welcome, guys, He says,
we could donate a boondock for Skyworm course. That'd be fun.
Thank you guys, appreciate y'all. Yeah, this is this is
a year away. It'll be April of next year, so
we'll be in touch. We'll be in touch with you guys.
But yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 6: But you know the other thing is right, so two
years in a row we've had weather considerations, right, yes, yes,
and so I think that's just another another reason why
focusing on that. You know, it's the right audience at
the right time to.
Speaker 1: Yes, agreed, agreed. Yeah, you'll definitely have their attention if
any kind of weather pops up. Yeah, yeah, that is true.
That is true. All right, I'd like to see some
pictures from you guys. I'm gonna start this out myself,
and I'm gonna say, okay, I set up well. First
of all, I added some new patches to the truck.
These were in my in my arsenal here, so I
added this overland of America and Oscar, my Covland, this
inca four x four trail rated. This guy this orange
patch down here at the left. This is the guy
I bought my ice coat fridge from two years ago.
And this is the guy that makes that trash bag
that Rob was just talking about, which I also own.
So gonna be doing some stuff with his with his
shop soon. He has an affiliate program and he seems
to be interested in getting together with with the Ham
Radio World, so we're gonna do some stuff like that.
This I set up. I didn't leave it up very
long because there was a lot of win this weekend.
I set up my portable APRS station. This is this
is the bio one of battery in this box right here,
and the VGC I think it's a seventy five hundred,
and I had a Bluetooth and Android T running APRS
droid running in I gate or I'm sorry Digitpeter mode
and uh. And I had the Fara Ja the two
meter Faara Jay antenna and that thing acts like a
sale if it's windy outside. So it was like great antenna,
excellent antenna. So I was really wanting to record a video,
but I didn't want to get on the video about
how much of a sale that intenna was. So I
was like, okay, I want to do this at a
later date, so I'll set this up.
Speaker 7: But did you say it was on sale?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 1: It was almost almost. Yeah, it was almost so. But
that was a good That was a good demonstration there
for or it was a good time with the Fara
Jay intent or the portable APRS Digitpeter that I have built.
So I set that up. So if any of you
guys have want to share any pictures, go ahead. I
turned on sharing. You should be able to share pictures
if you want to. Paul, what's up, buddy? How are you?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 3: How's it going?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 6: I'm late.
Speaker 10: I oh sorry, trying to get laundry down and since
i'll be working nine days straight.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, Yeah, Paul was just checking in to make
sure you're gonna be done in time for his live
stream tonight. Yeah, yeah, right, I got it almost. I
almost didn't do one, but.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm yep. Okay, anybody got any pictures?
Speaker 7: I didn't take any.
Speaker 6: I've got it. I've got a couple here. I'm trying
to get a couple more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, up here.
Speaker 6: Here, I'll love the ones I've got. That'll maybe give
you a minute, Kyle, All right, let's see here, let me.
Speaker 8: Here, I I uh, this was let me see if
I can share my screen real quick.
Speaker 7: Let's see.
Speaker 1: You should have share capabilities.
Speaker 8: Yeah, let's see. How do I okay? Yeah, so let
me let me share. So this is from you got
me here?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Uh, how about now? Oh there it is there it is. Yeah,
it's it's coming up. Hold on, it's not there yet.
Speaker 8: There it is, okay, okay, So this is from my
Square Drop Adventures channel.
Speaker 5: This was the indoor. The Fauxlanders.
Speaker 8: Got a video of the Flanders, and that is the
morning after, so a lot of them had had already gone.
Speaker 5: But this whole center area was just lined.
Speaker 8: With with with rigs and you can see there's the
ambulance coming out.
Speaker 5: But all that center line that I'm pointing to was
just filled with cars. They were just you know, cars
and cars and cars.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: So all these guys.
Speaker 8: With with tents and whatnot, they were just all huddled
into the.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, over landing on concrete.
Speaker 6: I forgot how big that barn is.
Speaker 1: It's huge. It's a large it's a large building.
Speaker 5: I don't let's see.
Speaker 8: Let's see if I got uh, here's the here's the
weather coming in.
Speaker 5: Is it gonna play?
Speaker 7: Come on? Oh we've got about that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, big tower thumb.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So here's here's our our compound.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 8: You can see all the gazelle tents. There's some more
hikers that were back there. You can see the flag
see how.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I see the flag going. That's good. Good capture.
Speaker 8: As as I go on here, it's it gets a
little bit more windy.
Speaker 5: There there's the there's the tents.
Speaker 1: There's the tents going. There's Rob's Rob's tint and Dual's
tint behind it. That's good. So anyway, I got I
got a couple of I got a couple like that
myself of the wind and whatnot. So that was good. Rob.
Speaker 6: You ready, yeah, I've got hold on. Give me this
a side here I can I can probably do this
just a little different.
Speaker 1: While.
Speaker 8: While Rob is doing that, there was another picture that
I took on a mounting solution, and I took a
picture of it. I won't share it here, but uh,
you know, the guy came over. It's like, how much
is this mounting solution? Like to mount a cargo box
to the side of my trailer?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: The guy was like how much? You know, how much
is this mounting solution? The mounting solution the bracket was
two seventy five and then you had to buy the
the pelican case, which was probably another one hundred and
fifty or two hundred. So it's like a you know,
five hundred dollars solution. I was like, well, that's a
pretty expensive solution for me to put one hundred dollars
with the stuff in it.
Speaker 1: Will Yeah. The what is it called? Is it called
the mounting solution.
Speaker 8: It's called it's called the Mounting Company, the Mounting Company.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have one of those times.
Speaker 1: I know I have one. It's dimounting something, but you
said solution and it confused me. No, no, but yeah,
that's the Yeah. They're expensive, they're expensive, very nice. They're
very well made, very bulletproof, and they're made in the USA,
so you're gonna pay a little bit more for that,
and I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. But
they're nice people. Was the first time they had attended
the show, the first time I met him. But yeah,
it's it's it's a cool Uh. They got a cool
product for sure. All right, what is this we're looking at?
Speaker 6: Rob This is this is the Walletbuster here, wallet Buster.
So I've been looking for either a rack or a
topper or something to put on the back of my truck.
And uh, you know, it's great going to one of
these events because you can look on the internet for
months and months and months. Guilty, but it's you know,
it's like anything else. You want to see it in person.
You want to you know, you want to knock on it,
you want to see how thick is the metal, how
you know, how well has it constructed all those types
of things. And so I was able to cross a
number of things off the list that I thought I
was interested in, because once I saw them, it's like,
you know, the price does not equate with quality. This
was one. It's a company called alue Cab where yes
they're expensive, but these things are built like a tank.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And and this this is this is showing kind of
a This is something called a mod cap, a modular
cap system, so you can you can buy it in pieces.
You can get just the topper itself, which you can
see it just looks like a cap, a truck cap
right with you know, a fancy truck cap. And it's
got you know, these kind of wings on the side
so you can get into the back of the bed,
all those types of things. And then there's different types
of tents that you can add to it. So this is,
you know, this is one of those systems. And this
is this is one of the better. This has been
the nicest one I've seen so far. For sure. This
is I'm not sure how big that's or how well
that's showing that's looking in through the back door. Really
a nice system. So that's that's the one that's really
got my interest in one. I'm I'm really excited about.
Speaker 1: This has made for the people who like slide in campers,
like a like a four wheel camper or what's the kind.
There's a few companies that make those, but like the
slide in camper that slides in the truck bed and
that's your RV. Your RV exists in the truck bed.
That's what that's meant for. But it's got a little
bit more overland aspect than RV aspect to it in
my opinion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, you've got all
the molly attachment stuff. You know, it's built really rugged.
Against the back wall is a water reservoir that's that's
piped down out to a spickett here in the bottom
left hand corner of the rig. You know, you got
your propane all that stuff on there. So yeah, it's
it's very you know, it's it's a little beefier than
your typical National Park slide in camper, right.
Speaker 1: Right, right, right, Yeah, Yeah, it's it's definitely well. And
Alu Cab has been around a while. Sometimes you'll go
to these shows and you'll see this company and they're
making something and it's like, oh, that looks cool, and
then like two years later, they're nowhere to be found.
Speaker 6: They're gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just gone. And Alu Cab they've been around
for a number of years. Ever since I've been into overlanding,
they've been around. They were one of the first names
I saw, and I never invested in them because they
are kind of pricey, but at least you know they're
they're going to be like, you.
Speaker 6: Know, around right well, you know, and we met another hand, Brian,
who we talked about earlier. He had one on his rig,
and so it was great to be able to talk
to somebody who's you know, had it, used it a
little bit, had some experience with it. That's not a salesperson, right,
that's not an Alu Cab employee or a salesperson. So
you know, he had lots of really great stuff to
say about it. So it got me pretty jazzed. I'm excited.
Speaker 7: Yep, Robert was. I was actually over there. I think
you were there when he told us about this, the
small issue we had with a tent. Yeah. Yeah, So
I walked over and we were talking to how you
cab I walked over there with Brian and the response
was literally, we'll take care of it, send an email
and a picture and we'll go from there. That that
was how quick and easy the process was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because his is his is like eight years old, right,
and he's starting to develop some little pinholes. Right, This
thing's eight years old. And he went over and talked
to him, and you know, sounds like they're going to
take care of him.
Speaker 7: So I actually, uh, I know, Jason was looking for
some some pictures.
Speaker 6: I'm not done. I'm not done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7: There's more.
Speaker 1: This was there.
Speaker 6: There's the goat, so we uh, this was the BUCkies stop.
So she's got a little baby goat there and that
was fun. Let's see what else I've got here now,
I mean, these are the pictures everybody really wants to see.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh boy, I didn't know y'all took down. It
looks like a middle it looks like a middle finger
shadow behind me? What's that about? Guys?
Speaker 8: What's great about that picture was the sky worn net
was going on.
Speaker 5: It was just like he was, he was. That was
his lullaby.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you can see the antenna, right, So he's
got his h t clip to the that thing keeps
going off and then it doesn't even He's just like
I was.
Speaker 1: Out, man, I got a couple a little bit away.
I didn't have that much to drink that night either.
I gotta I got a whiskey or two in me.
And it was dude, I was tired that day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well yeah for sure, me too, Me too.
Speaker 1: And then this is gonna go to the one with Bill.
Speaker 6: This one's pretty special.
Speaker 1: Kilt Bill with the tax sack.
Speaker 6: We make that up, guys. This is not a nothing,
you know, it's not. This one's the real deal.
Speaker 8: You gotta go to Digital Ranchers channel where we uh
we uh uh uh.
Speaker 5: What is the thing that I'm trying to engineered?
Speaker 8: Uh workshopped Bill's whole channel for his his new his
new Kilt channel to go over to over to Rob's
channel and listen to the live stream.
Speaker 6: And it has well, it was funny. So Trina, you know,
I had some trouble getting the live stream going. It's
the first time I had ever used that camera and
and tried to live stream like that. So I got
a you know, hardcore education there. But Trina had jumped
on at one point and she said. When I saw
your eyes were like slits, she says, I knew it
was over. It was over.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 5: That was a fun that was a fun stream.
Speaker 6: That was a lot of fun. That's all I got,
Gray Man, I'll let you take it from there.
Speaker 7: So Jason was was looking for some photos of Brian's truck.
Oh yeah, so I I just actually, wut just cures
that page? Okay, but but there are a couple of
uh pictures here with with the truck. So he's got
a full sized Tacoma. Sorry. Yeah, here's the alley cab
with the the awning out and the tent up and
then another one out here. So quite quite the rig
to get out and do some PODA and stuff like
that and campaign and everything in Yep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good stuff, very nice.
Speaker 3: And he's a c W guy as well.
Speaker 11: He does.
Speaker 1: Really, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize he did
c W. Okay, Well, I mean that's.
Speaker 6: What I think. Maybe he's he's got a channel or
maybe he's starting.
Speaker 1: A channel, right, he does have a channel.
Speaker 6: First ten contacts, I think was that that something like
that I got referring to PODA, right, getting those getting
the park activated? First ten I think it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that. Yeah, it sounds right. I'd love
to share his channel.
Speaker 7: I uh, I'll get channel.
Speaker 1: I have the car, I have the card, but it's
not I don't have it here with me. I think
it's still in the truck. I didn't take anything out
of the I grab my dirty clothes out of the truck,
my radio, and my my overnight or my daily carry bag,
and I went inside. Everything else is still in the truck.
I'm like, I'll deal with that tomorrow.
Speaker 8: And I think I think it's just just WQ zero,
a amateur radio. Oh okay, so just type in his
call sign Whiskey Queen zero America.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I see, okay, I see that right there.
Speaker 7: It is card, but I can't find it.
Speaker 10: I'm gonnatart have brought it in.
Speaker 1: WQ zero A yeah, yep, that's him right there. So
so that set up he showed on his QRS page
is what I've been envisioning for my truck. With the
awning I got installed, I'm gonna do some PODA activations.
Go out there, set up the awning, set up a
table underneath it, that kind of thing. So that's that.
This is this is cool he's he's kind of right
up inside the timeline that I'm doing. So here's a
link to his channel. Guys, you got guys, go share
him some show him some love. He's only got one
hundred and eighty three subscribers.
Speaker 8: But uh, we on him radio tomorrow and be like,
what in the way, worlds, let's double that for him.
Speaker 1: We don't we on him Radio two point er. We don't.
We don't care about subscriber count. We really don't. Brian
was a cool guy. He we got to hang out
with him two or three nights this weekend and uh,
and he was a really cool guy to hang out with.
So h you guys go show him some respect over there,
if you would. But yeah, I mean, that's that's that.
That Poda setup is really cool. That's that's really That's
really what I want to do is something like that.
I did get the two seventy. I got a two
seventy what's called a two seventy X t onwing forty five,
So it's made by Taruka and it goes all the
way round to the back corner of the truck, but
it all goes it goes from the front passenger corner
of the truck to the rear driver corner of the truck.
Now I've installed it and I haven't opened it up
yet because Bill kind of scared me with how how
difficult it was to put back together. So I haven't
opened it up yet, but I'm going and you know,
I wanted to get it installed this weekend. That's what
we did. And uh, that's that's that's that's coming soon.
Speaker 6: We've really missed an opportunity there, right, I mean, we
really should have had cameras running for that.
Speaker 1: We should have had, you know, and I recorded, I
recorded the first part of that. That dude just jumped
up by twenty subs. He just he just went from
went eighty three to two of three. You guys are
awesome in the chat. Keep going, keep going, yeah, keep going.
So yeah, yeah, I should have.
Speaker 5: I should have.
Speaker 1: I was going to and I just we got into
it and I'm just like, and I was gonnas.
Speaker 6: Like, you got this thing above your head. Yeah, it's
like you can't stop once you once you pick it up,
and I mean, you just gotta go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So but but I but I will make it.
I will make a video. I started a video doing
the first part of that install and then I'll finish
it up. So we we didn't get that part in
there sadly, but I don't know it'll work out.
Speaker 7: So does the XT stand for like extra tall? Because
I'm thinking you're gonna have to take rob with you.
That's so so okay, Like even I couldn't reach that
thing easily.
Speaker 1: All joking aside, All joking aside. I was thinking about
this driving home. So I'm going to get on Amazon
and I'm going to search for mini scaffold or compact scaffold.
I want to get a scaffold because I was here's
the thing, okay, I have to stand on the bed
rail and walk up and down the bedrail on both
sides of my truck when I am unzipping and re
zipping the tent that's on my truck. And it's easy
to do. It's not that hard to do. Well Now
with that thing mounted to the passenger side, I have
to stand like with my butt sticking out and skimmy
down the side there and I can't reach the I
zipped the tent up from the end, I got in
the bed, I pulled the drawer out, I got in
the bed, and I'm zipping it up from the inside
of the bed. So I'm like, you know what I
need something that I can stand up on and get
up to this front Runner makes a ladder. Front Runners
the roofrack I have. They make a ladder that attaches
to the roof rack and comes down and folds up
for storage. It's like six hundred freaking dollars, which is
which is why I don't have it. So I'm like,
you know what I need something like like maybe like
a a stilts Yeah, that would work, but like a
scal but like a scaffold. Yeah, you can put a
lanyard on the zipper. Yeah that would be good too,
but you gotta you gotta kind of push the tent
in and zip it with one hand and zip it
with the other hand. So but you know, as short
as I am, I don't I don't take offense to
this at all. But I'm like, I'm it's I'm thinking
about trying to find like a mini scaffold that has
like maybe three two or three levels where you can
pull the legs out to make it taller. And I'm
gonna fold that thing up, put on my rooffrack, and
it's gonna go everywhere with me, and it's like, Okay,
I I need to walk around the truck. Here's how
I'm doing it.
Speaker 4: Sure, I have the Amazon version of that front Runner
and it's it's just well, it's it's very suitable and
it's less than one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the ladder bill, Yes, get send me
a LinkedIn that out. I haven't seen that. Okay, send
me a linked to that absolutely, because yeah, because uh,
scaffolds are expensive. Well I'm gonna I'm gonna do the
Amazon special don so we'll see. But yeah, send me
a link to that bill because I looked at Because
front Runner makes a legit ladder and it it clips
on there and it's that's what it's for. It so
you can climb up on the top of your of
your your roof rack, because a lot of these roof
racks are I mean, like rob can't reach the top
of Hector's vand a lot of these roof tracks are
really tall, they're really high up there. So they make
this ladder so you can climb up and you know
it'd be easier to get stuff onto and off of
your rack.
Speaker 11: But as hooks on it, so you can hook it
to the rack for safety. It has hooks at the
top and it's very versatile. I'll send it to you.
It's maybe it's not as good.
Speaker 3: As that one.
Speaker 1: That's okay, as long as I'm not As long as
it's not going to break when I step on it,
I think, I'm okay, I'm.
Speaker 3: Bigger than you and hasn't broken yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a good way to say. I didn't want
to say it out loud, Bill, but you're right.
Speaker 7: So he's caring a tack sack.
Speaker 1: So boondog technology, says fauval lat f O v O
L A t portable scaffold fifty dollars at Walmart. I
will look that up. Awesome nice. I think harber Freight
has a low scaffold fold. I think I've seen something
like that at Herbert Frate too. I want something that's small,
that that'll fold up to a to a smaller size
that I can you know, throw on either either strapped
to the side of my bedrack or throw on the
roof rack or something like that. I don't want something
that's huge, but you know, and it doesn't have to
be that long. You know, something that's like two or
three feet long is fine. It doesn't have to be
like the length of the whole truck. I can get
off of it and move it down if I need
to move, move up and down the truck. But yeah,
that's that's what I'm gonna look for something like that.
I'll let y'all know what I find.
Speaker 7: Hey, what.
Speaker 1: Somebody's on All Star?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sorry, No, you're good, that's fine, no problem.
Speaker 6: I'm going to throw your link into the private chat.
Speaker 1: Okay, No, that's not it.
Speaker 7: Hang on.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's Brian's channel, the heckve ever work platform
on Amazon. Okay, Dave, I'll look that up too.
Speaker 2: That's that foldable scaffolding well, Walmart, that's.
Speaker 1: The one at Walmart.
Speaker 10: We had seventy four or seventy five dollars forty five
cents foldable scaffolding.
Speaker 1: Scaffolding that Aha, Yeah, words are hard today. Words are hard.
It's not really what I was picturing my head, but
that that would totally work. I think a thousand plants capacity. Okay,
what sizes it full? Down to five levels? So that's good. Okay,
looks like he's so.
Speaker 5: There's a picture at the bottom on the left column
of it folded.
Speaker 1: Up yeah, I just wonder how long it is. Those
hardy looks like it bolts in the middle. Interesting, Okay,
that that might work. I'd rather it not be red
because I don't want something on talking with my truck
that says, hey, come.
Speaker 2: Stealing, I'm stealing.
Speaker 6: So repaint.
Speaker 1: I speaking of those, you guys know those Zargis cases.
The they're like stainless steel. They're like rock solid, bulletproof.
Absolutely awesome. Uh A truck bed and roof rack cases.
I love those things. I almost bought a couple of
them a while back, and I couldn't get over the
fact that they were stainless, because like the sun hits
them and they just they just glow in the sun
and it's like, hey, guys, come steal me. So I
wanted something a little bit more gray Man than that.
Not not Tim Grayman, but actual gray Man. So that's
a skitch.
Speaker 7: You rattle can out take care of it right right right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Give it to Texas paint Job.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, because that wouldn't fade at all. So
I've heard of Jeremy. I've heard Jeremy is VID five
in the chat. I've heard of gorilla ladders. I don't
I've never owned one, but doubles is a Bota bench.
Oh okay, talk me into it.
Speaker 7: So I actually bought a small well it's not small,
probably twenty feet telescopic ladder, but I think they had
smaller ones, and they they nest down in you. You
bring them up, yes, and they've got hooks, big hooks
over the top where you could almost lean that up
again up against whatever you've got on the edge of
your bed rack. I don't know how how small they
have them, if they've got him like a ten or
twelve foot version.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of what I was talking about. And
it pulls down to like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, send me a link to it. Bill.
That's that's cool.
Speaker 4: See, if that's what you're talking about, I wouldn't had
mine would be, but I just left it with the trailer.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah, that's fine. Okay. Shibe any box,
any color ninety nine ninety five? What are you talking about,
ham till it hurts? What it is that paint? Or
is it like, is that a brand of box?
Speaker 7: Is that Earl Shive? Oh, Earl Shib, Yeah, paint, Yeah, Earl.
Speaker 1: Shib's paint does not last in Texas, My brother, I wish.
Speaker 7: You could only not a nine dollars paint job.
Speaker 8: Yeah, get on my shine box boy.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, who is Shane's PC? Who is that.
Speaker 7: PC that belongs to Shane?
Speaker 1: I guess he's joining the zoom. We're gonna say that's
what it is. It's either a p X Shane or
it's qb F Shane. I think it's probably a p
X Shane, so it is. Yeah, there you go. What's up.
Speaker 2: When you get the video?
Speaker 1: Mutual YouTube too?
Speaker 3: Brother? How are you.
Speaker 1: You're I think you're either your radio or your YouTube
is coming.
Speaker 2: Through your cop radio?
Speaker 6: Is it turned on?
Speaker 3: Shane?
Speaker 1: It's a cop radio?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 6: It's film from Bill.
Speaker 12: Cop Oh boy, I just have this, That's all I have.
Speaker 1: I mean, Shane shows up and you hear a cop radio,
so you just assume.
Speaker 6: You assume as Shane, it's me.
Speaker 1: Amast with the most expensive walkie on his hip.
Speaker 12: Yeah, although Dayton's kind of a close comparison because there's
a lot of guys with that carry some expensive stuff.
Speaker 1: Totally, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I wanted to come.
Speaker 12: On he real quick before you guys. I don't know
when the stream is going to be ending. But as
most of them may know, some of you may not know.
Jason already knows at the end of the month. So
next weekend will be my last weekend in the state
of California.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, Yeah, I do that out loud.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, you're officially escaping.
Speaker 1: Huh, yes, sir, moving to the USA.
Speaker 7: They got a tax shape for for less taxes.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so I got a I got a job as
a radio contact for the Navajo County Sheriff's Office in Arizona.
Speaker 6: That. Yeah, I think you will.
Speaker 5: Summertime, which is like eight twelve months of the year,
but you're.
Speaker 12: Gonna love It's three hours northeast of Phoenix and it's
up in the mountains.
Speaker 1: That yeah, yeah, you really love it.
Speaker 12: If you guys have, I know Jason has. If you
guys heard of Solo Arizona or standing on the corner
in Winslow, Arizona.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm, sounds familiar.
Speaker 1: We need to do that. We need to actually go
to Winslow, Arizona and find a corner to stand on
and take and do a video, have a money like yeah, they.
Speaker 6: Have, they have a statue there.
Speaker 1: I want to say, we drove through there. Mike and
Frank and I drove through there on our way to
Grand Canyon. I want to say, you guys Phoenix, right,
I don't remember down. Yeah, well we went to Phoenix
and we met up with Charlie. We went to Mesa
and medical Charlie. But yeah, when we did drive through
Fort Hancock, Texas. Now, what does that mean?
Speaker 5: Short hand?
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, that's where he crossed the border. And
so yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah, my wife's cousin has
a cabin in Sholo and she's invited us to come
out there. We don't have any hard set plans. We
have kind of like a standing invitation. So I'm like,
let's go to show. So once you guys get moved
out there, Shane, I'll try to get to try to
get something scheduled with that and we'll go dinner one
night or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, dude, you guys should come out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We uh.
Speaker 12: We found a three bedroom, one bath house for rent
for one thousand dollars less than what we're paying right.
Speaker 6: Now for.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, California.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's a house. It's like it has like
a little side yard. It's like a put up antenna
and stuff, and I'm just like.
Speaker 1: Nice, you're freaking a smooth out man, Yice very cool.
Speaker 12: And it's it's kind of centrally located in so though
it's not like out in the sticks. It's it's kind
of in the downtown area, so things are within walking
distance or short driving distance. And they have a Walmart,
and they have a home depot, they have a Low's,
they have a Harbor Freight, they have.
Speaker 2: Have an Amazon distribution center there.
Speaker 1: As long as you can, Yeah, if you can get
packages delivered by ups us, you're good.
Speaker 6: You're totally good.
Speaker 1: Everything else range now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it probably won't take it three hours to
get five miles down the road.
Speaker 12: No, right, Yeah, it'll take three hours to get to Phoenix.
Speaker 3: But that's that's normal for Phoenix.
Speaker 7: That's okay, going one hundred and eighty miles.
Speaker 12: So, like, what did my lieutenants say? He said, when
you're gonna get somewhere there in thirty minutes, you're gonna
get there in thirty minutes.
Speaker 7: Nice, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. Well, Rob's got Rob's gotta jump out. And uh, Paul,
I said, Paul, are you streaming tonight?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll casually InterMine when you're done.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm yeah, I think we've been going for an hour.
I said we were gonna cut it short tonight. We
we didn't do that, and that's okay. This has been
a great stream. I appreciate you guys, so so Rob. Yeah,
say you're goodbyes if you want to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, just uh, it was a great time.
Thanks everybody here on the stream. I always enjoyed going
to this and yeah, the show is great, but to
hanging with you guys is what it's all about. So
I really appreciate all of you guys going and uh
just being such good people. Where looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It again Springfield, Missouri.
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't jump out.
Speaker 1: I'll see you all right, see Rob later.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're about Bill than we ever.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we know too much about Bill now for sure.
But yeah, on a serious note, sometimes, I mean we
got we got twelve months to the next show, because
it's always in April. We're going to do some We're
gonna do some planning. We're gonna I'm gonna do some
reaching out to vendors and and and uh, other people
that I think might be fit from the show and
might have the show benefit from them, and we're gonna
try to get to get some other stuff going with
the show next year. So it's I think there's a
I think there's a huge opportunity for the amateur radio
market inside of this, and a lot of a lot
of ham radio guys already like off roading, four by four,
camping and whatnot. Anyway, So it's not like I'm trying
to push this on someone who doesn't want to go camping. No,
if you want to go camping, you like this. Let's
get these two hobbies together because they're both great. Totally,
So yeah, totally, I like it.
Speaker 12: That's one thing in Arizona that I got to get
into now because there's a lot of camping and out
and overlanding out there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of BLM land out there which we
don't have out here. So that's really that's that that
that'll be really cool for you.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 10: I couldn't afford to buy all everything I wanted for
my tundras, so I had a I put it on
my tundra and this is a picture of it.
Speaker 1: There you go. It's got a nice lift. The first
thing that Tendra has that you need to get. Paul
is some real freaking tires.
Speaker 10: I know, I know, this is really nice. This one
came out. I went through a few of them and
I'm like, okay, I like this one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah that does look good.
Speaker 7: Yeah we'll see.
Speaker 10: Yeah, let me can I show one one picture real
quick though?
Speaker 7: I did absolutely, Yeah, probably the best picture. I'll just
show the screen. Is that what you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, sure, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 10: I found this one. This is one of the rarest
lines I think that you can get out there.
Speaker 5: You see it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I think this is a trend that's starting.
Speaker 1: It's stuck on broncos. So so so a bronco owner
who's a closet jeep guy.
Speaker 7: Right, it sounds like I'm not mistaken that duck was decapitated.
Speaker 1: Was absolutely decapitated. Yes, actually very true.
Speaker 7: I left it. I put it back up on my
dash with the head dangling, so the head is still
kind of attached, and I'm just gonna leave it on
there for all the people to see.
Speaker 10: What you should have just hung it from your rear
view mirror.
Speaker 6: Yeah, partially decaptain.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid i'd have to use some kind of a
noose and then it would turn into a thing and
yeah the next thing, you know, I need.
Speaker 1: That that might not need that?
Speaker 5: Need that?
Speaker 1: Well, Paul, share the link to your upcoming live stream.
Speaker 10: And I don't know why I'm so red. I am
not burnt, but I might have to reboot or something.
Speaker 1: Tomato, you do look kind of red, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 10: Your beard looks a little darker too, buddy. Yeah, there's
something going on with my cam. I don't know, this
is weird. I'm really red.
Speaker 6: Years ago?
Speaker 1: Do a white balance? Yeah, maybe the white balance?
Speaker 7: So windows did an update. I mean your shirt and
having blue right.
Speaker 10: Oh no, although it could be because of all this
green in the back is green and it's trying to
a gesture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, could be that.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm just going to talk about more too.
If anyone wants to join me.
Speaker 6: Just let me know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sharon link in the chat man. Great hanging out
with you this week, Paul.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I had a great time, guys. Yeah, I did have
the well I posted on YouTube post the group of us.
Tim wasn't there, but everyone else, all the important people
were at the tent when.
Speaker 5: I took that.
Speaker 1: Be sure and do something AI with it before next year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I gotta get I'll get him.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: Last year I had me crab walking or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: We did the group Hug.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the Pug was the group Hug was good. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I can't imagine how much better it would be this year,
just a year later. That AI probably makes it look
more real.
Speaker 1: It could be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, one year later technology right.
So all right, guys, thanks for everyone for hanging with us.
It was a fun trip. We're gonna absolutely do this
again next year. We're gonna get some more Ham Radio
presence in there. If you want to go, you got
a year to plan it. So April of twenty twenty
seven is when it'll be. We'll be talking about it
between now and then. So it's seventy.
Speaker 2: It's a weekend show.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a Friday Saturday show. We go up
there on Wednesday, we camp on Thursday. Sometimes we go
do Poda and then we h we can't. The show's
Friday Saturday, and then we we stay overnight Saturday. We
just pack up go home on Sunday.
Speaker 12: Generally, so I think, yeah, I think this time next
year I might be able to make it work.
Speaker 1: Awesome find posted buddy. Yeah yeah, keep watching the channel,
which I know you will. So seventy three guys. Everyone,
have a good evening and we'll talk this week. Sometime
seventy later, buddy, see you