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They're hard to blow after it rains on them, that's for sure. Especially if you have a line of leaves knee deep across the yard- if it rains on the pile you'll need a bulldozer to move them.

Nice, thank you!

No, I can hear people talking a lot, mostly on skip from "way out yonder" somewhere. Heard somebody in Iowa today. But anyhow, I decided that I don't need a radio in that truck. The antenna still hit the ceiling when I parked it on the other side, and when I moved it down to the lower bracket the SWR was totally effed up again. Best I could get was 2.1, 2.3, and that was on channel 40 and channel 1. So if you need to raise the antenna if it's higher on channel 1, I didn't know what to do since it was the same on both 1 and 40. Tried the fiberglass Wilson and it was worse, way worse. I always heard that if it's under 2.0 you're OK, but I couldn't it under 2.0 at all. So I got pis- I mean frustrated, and took everything back out and chunked it in the shed. Looks like this now-

You probably had the big 4 cylinder, the 196 cubic incher, half a 392. I had a tow bar on the front of my '64, and I pulled a few logs with it too. A friend of mine had several maple trees he wanted cut, and they were just across a little creek at the edge of a field. He said I could have them for firewood if I wanted them, and not to even worry about clearing the brush. So I hooked the old Scout behind the old F100, went over and cut the trees, then used the Scout to pull them out into the field where I could cut them up and load the wood easily. I'll post a picture of it the next time I'm on the computer.

I just came to a startling realization, and it made me feel pretty stupid. I just went down town and voted, but I wasn't stupid enough that I voted for Kamala or anything, but on the way home it suddenly occurred to me that if I just parked the big green International that runs now on the other side of the carport the antenna probably wouldn't hit the ceiling. So maybe I should try that before I remount the antenna somewhere else.

One of mine was a '64 with the 3 sticks, but it had the 152 4 cylinder, half a 304. Powerlock rear, it was a going little machine.

Wow, I'm not in the same league as you guys. It's hard to remember, but I'm coming up with 13 cars and 6 pickups, plus several International Scouts that were not licensed and insured for highway use. 4 motorcycles... Oh, and the big green International that runs now.

I had a 72 Nova myself, it was my first car.

Yes, I've used those before too.

We've been turning the heat on at night, and have the AC on by afternoon. Zina stays cold. We went to the vets office this morning and she was wearing a winter coat. I had on a short sleeve shirt and shorts. 🤣

Yes, it's a Wilson 2000 with the stainless steel whip. I have a fiberglass Wilson that I can try too. I didn't have time to fool with it today.

I'm back at square one with the antenna. I put the truck back under the carport because we have to have our dog in VA. Beach for eye surgery in the morning, and we're leaving today, as soon as Zina finishes work. It hits the ceiling now in the carport, so I'm going to move it down to the lower arm. I just took the speaker out and left it in the floor for the time being, so I could release the brake.

That's the same model Connex that I used to run. It was a good radio, I used it since the old 2006 Peterbilt says. But when I tried to cram it into the space that was supposedly made for a CB something on the back of it shorted out on something in the hole and smoked it. It was substantially bigger than the Cobra 29 I had in there at first. That's the main reason I bought the Stryker, I saw an ad for it in some trucking magazine and it said it was made smaller just so it would fit in those overhead compartments. It's a nice little radio too, it used to "walk the dog" in the other truck. It's been on the shelf since I retired. I like that it displays the SWR every time you key the mike too.

Yeah, that wouldn't work in this truck. The steel dash is only about 3 inches wide.

Yep, as you can see that one spot was about the only place all the way across the dash that was open. I said "oh, here's a good spot for the speaker". Never thought about the hand brake. It was pulled back when I put the speaker there. Oh well, I'll find somewhere to put it.

Yessir, it sure was.

I checked the battery with my little multi-meter device today, that I really don't know how to use, and it showed exactly 12 volts. So there was a terminal block on the fender well under the hood that looked like the wires going to it came from the starter. The Big wire was hot all the time and it tested at 12 volts exactly too, so I connected the radio to it. But I will have to be careful about leaving it on, even a tiny draw will drain a battery if it's on long enough. Then I mounted the radio and an external speaker, and the standing wave was much better than the last time. I had to raise the antenna to get it right, but I had left it bottomed out when I put it back in the shed last week. Tightening the mirror bracket and running the extra ground wire must have done the trick. I didn't get it perfect, but I got it down to 1.3. I was going for a ride around the block to test the radio, but some dumbass mounted an external speaker in the way so I couldn't release the parking brake. I'll fix it tomorrow, it's Miller time now.

I took this night shot last night when the solar lights on the carport came on. I liked the way it looked in the light, so I grabbed a couple of pics with my phone. I had backed it out because I was putting a CB radio in it. Haven't finished yet, it takes me 2 days to put a radio in nowadays. I put my Stryker radio in it last week, but my SWR was up around 5. I raised the whip up as high as it would go and it was still over 3.0. I had shortened the top piece to get it right in the T800, so I ordered a new whip from Wilson. Yesterday I tightened all the mirror bracket bolts and ran a ground wire from the antenna bracket inside to a bolt under the dash. Now I just need to find a good hotwire to hook it up to. Stryker says to go straight to the battery, but I don't know about all that. I might just find a hot wire in the fuse box to hook it to.

Pretty interesting picture I saw on the interwebs today. Those are some very nice pumpkins.

Oh yes, she was absolutely pissed!

I should have posted the pictures in reverse order on flickr, they're kind of backwards, but oh well.

Here's a link to the channel 6 news story about the Truckers Parade Against Cancer- https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/truckers-against-cancer-oct-16-2024

Here's a lot of pictures of the big green International that runs now. I know most everybody has seen it on the "Odds and Ends" page, since back when it was the "big green International that doesn't run". It should have been here at first, but I didn't know at first that it would be such a long drawn out story. Anyhow...

I would blow mine towards the woods on one side in the front yard and into the woods behind the house. By the time they were all gone I would have a wall of leaves almost chest deep.

Same as Virginia, northern VA, and the Richmond and tidewater area control the rest of the state. 😡