A true legend. Very cool.

All true but CB is limited to 4W and similarly powered 2m handheld radios are much much smaller than their cb counterparts.

You and I are of the same mindset lol

Ostensibly to call for help if the car broke down or ran out of gas.

Back in the 70s I think the cops used to monitor CB CH 9 as the emergency channel. Even radios today mark it that way.

In reality, we never needed it and it was fun to listen to the truckers and occasionally talk to them.

Oh also the CB, bought new in 1977, came with a CB Lingo booklet lol

For four wheeling we go in groups of 2+ so just use it to keep in touch and make sure nobody gets left behind in back and make sure we all know which turns to make in the maze of dirt roads / trails.

Most of the ones I know of are day trips, anywhere from 4-6 hours on the trail.

String 2 or more together with camping in-between and call it "overlanding" or camping and wheeling.

Some can be loooong. In Moab, the White Rim trail is a fun 2-3 day adventure (you have to book a long long time in advance).

I have never managed to run the Poison Spider, Golden Spike, Gold Bar Rim trifecta in less than 10 hours and in one case it was closer to 20 due to multiple breakdowns with old vehicles. Some can do it faster with more skill and more capable rigs than me.

In Colorado there's the Alpine Loop near Ouray, taking Engineer Pass to Lake City and back via Cinnamon Pass (if I am remembering right...). It can be done in a long day but it's more fun to do it in two.

Lol

Oooh the alps. Someday I would love to visit those areas. Wouldn't be surprised if it was more gorgeous and impressive lol.

Funny, there's a town in southwest co called Ouray (named after a famous chief) that is nestled in San Juan Mountains nicknamed "Switzerland of America".

Several trails can be accessed from there which take you up above 11,000 ft (~3400m) with some of the most beautiful mountain scenes I know of (so far).

Dungarees-- those are called overalls. Ha, wouldn't be caught dead in those but I've seen a few guys wear em off road.

I'm pretty much a jeans or carpenter pants dork.

Not sure what qualifies as dungarees. Not a word I hear often in the US.

I have been going on four wheeling trips a few times every summer since 1998 here around Colorado and around Moab. I have seen amazing places on those trips. Places you can't really imagine or understand from looking at a picture. My daughter really enjoys it.

PS: assuming you're not from around here... If you ever want to visit and see how gorgeous it can be up in the Rockies, hit me up and I will take you out on a trail run somewhere and show you what I mean.

Maybe but ham radio is better in terms of performance off road than cb ever was. I've always had a 2m radio installed but never really had anyone to talk to off road until recently lol.

Midland 75-822 is the smallest I can think of. Plugs into a cigarette lighter. Never owned one so no idea if it is any good. Quite a few CB handhelds are still big. Lot of big mobile radios too.

For whatever reason a lot of cb radios are stuck in the 70s/80s in terms of design. Maybe because there's no money in redesigning?

The smallest dedicated mobile you can get, as far as I know, is a Uniden 510 or 520. Even those have been around for decades; I got mine in the late 90s (it's still working after years of four wheeling)

CB was the go to communication for a lot of off-roaders (like 4x4 , jeep, etc) for some years and it is no doubt still used, but "overlanding" folks seem to favor Ham radio. And of course some use FRS/GMRS.

(Overlanding as in, wheeling and camping in a new spot each night, roof top tent, full kitchen in the back of the truck type stuff)

It was a big thing in the 1970s, good buddy. I still have the CB dad installed in the family car for summer road trips lol.

For sure! They are awesome. That's why I have several including the one I had as a kid in the 70s (it still runs fine too).

The old ads are true ("takes a licking..."). Those old Timex watches really are tough as nails. For example, the balance staff, instead of a thin, easily broken thing like in typical mechanicals, is 10x thicker with cone ends that ride in inverse cone dishes. You're not gonna break that, I don't care what you do. That design is inherently shock proof without needing to add any tiny, expensive shock protection parts (diashock, incaboc, etc).

Love it. I have some vintage timex watches including the one I had when I was a kid in the 70s (and it still runs fine)

For an old, cheap pin-pallet Timex movement, that's not terrible. I doubt any of em could do better than 20-30 sec/d brand new. I mean, these are zero jewels movements designed for low cost.

This one could simply need regulating, too. If we want to judge health, throw it on a timegrapher.

Meanwhile .. cool watch!

So post something better? Idk

Do it! I would join that in a flash.

I don't even mind the "grandma's fridge" posts but I would appreciate a more focused sub, too.

And of course we have our own sub /r/earrumblersassemble

>She claimed that by not responding to a generic and vague e-mail sent to all of Twitter employees by its owner multi–Billionaire Elon Musk earlier this month, she was treated as if she was no longer employed by the company.

>She said that she never resigned from her job but had been locked out of Twitter’s IT system and was unable to access the firm’s Dublin office.

Lmao what an absolute clown show. Like even the best workplace comedies can't even touch the depths of absurdity that Melon Husk so effortlessly drags the company to. My god, he is a genius ...of staggering, unfathomable incompetence lol

Ok that makes sense. Also that's a huge relief.

I cut my face up with feathers on a more aggressive setting with that razor. I found that a middle number works well for me too.

Oh crap really?? Please don't tell me that's permanent? I just got some more feather blades but maybe I need to keep buying and stock up. Shit.

I set mine to I think 6 or 7 most of the time. With Feather blades.

I'm using my dad's old one. Love it.

Hubble observed that the farther away a star was from us, the more redshifted it was. The amount of redshift was linearly related to the distance.

The farther away the object is from us, the faster it is moving away from us.

The interpretation is that the universe (spacetime) is expanding.