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Found this on Scannermaster site....

Kind of expensive :shock:

http://www.scannermaster.com/Portable_E ... 761290.htm

http://www.scannermaster.com/v/vspfiles ... manual.pdf

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

WOW that is crazy over priced. my whole setup (not including the radios) was less then that and I have all band all mode all everything.

Price varies with options:
Package Price: $3,616.55

fully loaded haha.

thanks about the case, I spent a lot of time on that.

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You could probably get a smart car with all that stuff mounted in it for that price :D

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Hey guys thanks for all the great replays, and the very cool radio stuff that you added, my son who is eleven and I are big time into camping this will be the first year that we will not be sleeping on the ground in a tent "YA" I'am 48 and a little bit more above the ground sounds better to me. I learned this radio thing from my Dad back in the very early 60's, I have found a lot of enjoyment it, its funny but when something is happening around here my son turns on a scanner or two just to see whats up. for camping we will bring along a few GMARS radios PRO-163,164 GRE-500 and a 600 and a laptop, not my Dads camping in memory of him I will bring the G-5 Grundig, is this camping or a radio party.

I'll think fondly of this thread in a few weeks when I go winter camping...Only take a tarp, a little rope, ground sheet and sleeping bag. Maybe some beef jerky and a bottle of internal antifreeze.

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Your a young man, I remember those days to, I never left home with out some Salmon Jerky and beef jerky. dry food and camping, a great time.
Here is how I cook the salmon now days turns out great in my smoker.
http://alaskaoutdoorjournal.com/Departm ... jerky.html

"Is this Camping or a radio party?" My answer.... YES!!

Back when I was in High school I hiked in and camped on a ridge North of
Hurricane Ridge... Klahanie Ridge as I recall. Middle of summer and woke up with a sheet of ice inside the tent. Dragged up my (and I date myself:-) Ratshak PRO 30 device, and with a duck was picking up ALL of the BN (Told you this was awhile ago) traffic from Everett to the Canadian border... even handheld radios.
Been seeking high ground to "play radio" ever since, regardless of "service"... and the vehicles and radios have gotten a bit newer and nicer over the years...

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Can't believe I typed up a long response and it crashed....

Anyhow. What I'd said was my way works easiest, IMHO. Stake your tarp at 3 corners with whittled sticks or tent poles (for the city folk), use some 550 cord to tie off the 4th point through the grommet to a tree. Lay out your ground sheet or pine branches, roll out your bag, build a small fire at the mouth of the 'tent' and commence to drinking....Er, scanning?

Best illustration I can find without coffee in my system is here...Except way lower to the ground. Think about pup tent tall.

Poncho works well too, if you want to ruin it with grommets, but Fred Meyer and just about everyone else sells those little tarp clip things. Better for it in the long run, because you never know when you'll need to make a raft out of your poncho :wink:

Now Jay will come along with his hammock stories...

ETA: A canvas bedroll would be a great idea as well, but they can be heavy.

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Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

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Wil, that is the cold weather preferred method. I do the hammock in summer cuz it's cooler.

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Yeah, most summers if it's just the Boy and I, it's sleeping bags on the ground sheet; pine branches if we're looking for 5-star lodging.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

This reminds me....you and I need to talk about flyfishing!

Table Mtn over by E-burg is the classic easy to access spot for camping and radio. I did Field Day and VHF tests for years up there. There are dozens of wide open excellent places to camp with good access for a tent trailer.

On the west side there are still a few decent places you can reach up high, but they are going fast with all the gates and road closures. You can reach the Mt. Pilchuck parking lot (3,150 ft) with almost zero snow right now. That's about the best and highest radio spot I can think of with camping. There are a number of logging roads that branch off the Mtn Loop Hwy with some good camping. Take a weekend and get out and wander the back roads off the Mtn Loop or off Hwy 20. Excellent camping at Baker Lake with pay and dispersed camping.

I camped last week on the N. Fork of the Skykomish river with excellent camping, but the radio reception sucks. You have to access that area via Jacks Pass east of Skykomish. The road from Index is still washed out from the 2007 floods. I was able to drive near the top of Johnson Ridge at 4,000 ft. last week, so it's amazing how little snow there is right now.

There are some good areas on Tonga Ridge over 4,000 ft. and on Maloney Ridge across the valley near Skykomish. You're almost too far east for good radio though, but great camping. Camping to me is NOT staying in a pay campground with some one 30 ft. away, so any place I go is away from the mobs.

I take a RV battery with a 400 watt ac/dc converter for most of my power needs and have a Yamaha 1,000 watt generator if I need to charge. That's a super generator that gets me 12 hrs of run time on about 1/2 a gal. of gas that you can hardly hear. I've been known to take my sat. dish and receiver too, so I've gotten some good stares from people. I ditched my camper years ago and either tent camp or use a 10x10 ft. tarp shelter I built. I take a portable wood stove and stay toasty warm in the coldest weather.

Even though many areas are getting closed and gated, we still have 100's of great places to camp and explore away from the crowds. Just be sure you pick up your garbage and leave it better than you found it. Only takes a few inconsiderate people to wreck it for good. Once the gate goes up or Road Closed signs it's rarely ever reopened. Here's a summer shot from where I camped last week.

K7CAR, was that photo taken @ just south of the bridge near the 63/65 junction?

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Yes, Table Mt. is a really good radio spot also. If you are brave you can
go the rest of the way up the hill to the top of Lion Rock. Been up there with my Bus a number of times, and slid off the road on the way up there for the 2006 June VHF test... Pictures of that event are on the ARRL contest soapbox area of their website. Easiest way to find those is simply run my callsign through your favorite search engine.

With K7CW, KE7V, K7WA, and N7EPD, my Bus, and the 6 meter station
set up in a tent, we won (again) Division Leader in the ARRL June VHF test, Unlimited Multioperator category, and came in 8th in the NATION
in that category from up there, in 2005.

Last time "on the rock" was after the 2008 Pacific Northwest VHF conference held that year in Moses Lake. A bunch of us decided to head up there and "play radio" as we were going to drive by it on the way home anyway...
Saw Rime ice forming on the windward side of the trees while we were up there. Much warmer in Ellensburg and in the Bus with the heaters running!

Eric
KB7DQH

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