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Updated 1 day 16 hours ago
ORP 4/18/2026First event of the season testing out the new brake setup and... it's somehow worse. It doesn't help that we wound up with the wrong pads on the car, but yeah it sure isn't an improvement to have gone with the Honda Element brake boster...
Updated 1 day 17 hours ago
So I was hoping to make this the 60th event for my car... but it just didn't happen. No worries though, I'll be doing a fun happy 60th birthday party for this car with a cake at the next event!This even was a big group gathering. We had 5 people and...
Updated 1 week 2 days ago
So this is a a bit of a follow up to my article on using GMRS with Ham radios.I recently saw a reddit conversation surrounding what handheld to get for small group comms...., and of course the usual contingent of hard nosed rule followers...
Updated 1 week 3 days ago
Products in this article:Purchase the Yaesu VX-6R on Amazon or at Gigaparts.Signal Stick Antenna - 440 monobandCoil Leash3d Printed Leash Attachment (Free, or pay somebody $5 to print)It's a story as old as time: What's going on with the...
Updated 1 day 5 hours ago
For me, the excitement of HAM radio has been all about having a functional setup for communication while doing activites. Generally that focus has been on comms while skiing or driving race cars, which is generally easy enough and the locations...
Updated 1 day 19 hours ago
It's no secret that all of the numbers and ratings behind track tires are dubious. Treadwear is a highly debatable value, width is apparently subjective...heck to be honest I think the only reliable number in all of the process is the wheel...
Updated 2 weeks 4 days ago
Another year of events, another winter big platform push! Coming into the 2026 season my focus was mostly on trying to figure out the rear instability of the car. To quote a pretty talented race car builder "We've never made a car faster by making...
A Baofeng UV-28+ pictured on the left, next to 2x Baofeng UV-5R mini's and a Yaesu FT5DR
Updated 4 weeks 1 day ago
Link to Purchase the UV-28+ on Amazon -- $39.99To me, ham radios are purposeful. While many folks get them for personal enjoyment, Myself and my friends use them for communication in situations where cell use is annoying, disruptive, and/or not...
Updated 1 month 4 weeks ago
One thing the C5 Corvette LS engine has in spades is blow-by. Now this may seem like a negative, but for the boost happy folks, this adds a lot of forgiveness, and in general these engines last a very long time and take a beating so you can't fault...
Updated 1 month 2 days ago
This is a critical piece of topic I need to cover both legally, and because some of the more cantankerous hams get in a tizzy about this topic.The majority of folks out there guilt free use Ham Radios on GMRS frequencies and never cause any issue...

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