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[RedHeep]

Another broken coolant sensor. Damn the guy that decided where that stupid thing goes.

 

[87manche]

hey, you should be careful not to break the coolant sensor off.
It's kind of in a vulnerable spot.

 

[seanR]

If you haven't voted, vote!
If you have voted, vote again!
We are behind.

 

[terrehautian]

If you haven't voted, vote!
If you have voted, vote again!
We are behind.

Been in Illinois too long, that is Chicago style voting?

 

[Fore Wheeler]

If you haven't voted, vote!

If you have voted, vote again!

We are behind.

QFT!!!

 

[seanR]

I just wrote a check for my property taxes.
Makes me feel good I can support a school district I never used, a court system build on cronyism, a fire department that cant find my house, a road that I have to maintain my self, and a police department that only has one patrolman in 240+ square miles!

God Bless Winnebago County, Illinois!

 

[Fore Wheeler]

, Illinois sucks!

fify

 

[MKR5150]

Ok.

 

[BRIANHO13]

The engineer that designed the front suspension on the wk can **** himself in the ass w brand new struts because he is sure as **** not going to get the old ones out easily.....

 

[need-a-bow]

So I'm shopping around for some decent 2 way radios for family in Mexico. Need decent range in hilly areas, but have to be basic to setup. Any particular models I should look at? Was thinking just some midlands or Baofeng but I think all Baofeng need to be programmed

 

[w_howey]

So I'm shopping around for some decent 2 way radios for family in Mexico. Need decent range in hilly areas, but have to be basic to setup. Any particular models I should look at? Was thinking just some midlands or Baofeng but I think all Baofeng need to be programmed

You are missing information for anyone to provide even a half-educated Naxja answer....

Mexican citizen or US citizen visiting Mexico?
Do they hold amateur licenses or no?

Mexico does have a version of the US FRS...BUT.... UHF sucks major donkey balls in hilly terrain. And finding Mexican FRS frequency radios is going to be more difficult in the states as not all the frequencies are the same.

 

[need-a-bow]

US Citizen visiting mexico. No amateur licenses. Deep rural countryside. Just need basic plug n play radios mostly for driving cattle.

Well technically dual citizen.

 

[87manche]

programming boafeng radios isn't hard.

By one programming cable, make your image, flash it to all the radios.
You could program ten of them in an hour.

Best make sure that you're legal for wahtever in Mexico.

 

[macgyvr]

My buddy wanted to know what radios to buy, cb, frs, ham, etc. I told him about the boafeng radios.

I also had a driveshaft and yoke to get his sons zj switched over to double carden up front...stuff that was laying in the bottom of my spares pile...

So he's buying 5 radios, 4 for him, 1 for me, the cable and extended antenna for me and I'm going to program them all the same...and I keep the cable.

mac 'love to trade' gyvr

 

[RedHeep]

Going to look at a golf cart.

 

[seanR]

Air show.
Blue Angels.
FTW!

 

[altrocker1]

Went to the local rib fest...ate $50 worth of rib samples. If I was the judge, no one would win. Ribs were cooked well but no smoke flavor or rub to be tasted on any of them. I was a bit disappointed. Some great sauces though...wish they were selling sauces

 

[w_howey]

programming boafeng radios isn't hard.

By one programming cable, make your image, flash it to all the radios.
You could program ten of them in an hour.

Best make sure that you're legal for wahtever in Mexico.

This...

But.. About the only thing that would be license-less in Mexico would be their FRS.. which the Boafeng's cover... but technically aren't legal to operate there. And the whole UHF sucks donkey nuts in hilly areas.

 

[need-a-bow]

I really need to read up on all this fancy UHF stuff. Been meaning to get a decent radio for a while but just keep putting it off. Nows as good a time as any I guess. Will most likely need half a dozen radios, so maybe learning to program a baofeng isn't such a bad idea. Not a lot of radio traffic where we are at, definitely no cell reception

 

[87manche]

CHIRP is the software you want.

super cake.
mac, windows, linux.

and extended batteries are dirt cheap, it may be worth picking them up if you want to use them all day constantly.