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by Jerry Campbell
Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:49 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Home until spring
Replies: 14
Views: 7508

Re: Home until spring

It's raining cats and dogs here too. But we'll fix that next week when we leave headed for the sun. Tomorrow is my last day of work. That's a beautiful place you've got there for the winter , Dennis. Makes me want to come and visit for a couple of months. Looks like a good place to fly my RC Heli an...
by Jerry Campbell
Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:28 pm
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Ham Radio And Weather
Replies: 16
Views: 8717

Since I'm accumulating gear one bit at a time, an antenna tuner isn't something I have yet. Any antenna I put up is going to have to be a one-band resonant affair until I have a way to match it to the output of my rig. :D Most of the newer rigs a have automatic tuners. Mine is older, a Kenwood TS-4...
by Jerry Campbell
Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:47 pm
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Ham Radio And Weather
Replies: 16
Views: 8717

We check in to the net every night at 6:30 PM. Pacific time on 3.980 Mhz Another reason to get some sort of an HF antenna up. Know anybody who likes to climb trees? A good rod and reel should throw it far enough up in the tree. I have a metal fence post in the ground with a 30 ft piece of irrigatio...
by Jerry Campbell
Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:26 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Ham Radio And Weather
Replies: 16
Views: 8717

Patty and I have been ham radio operators since the mid '80s. KB7BKN and KB7BKM We both have General class licenses. We don't belong to any clubs. We belong to the OEN Oregon Emergency Network. A west coast ham radio emergency group dedicated to emergency services and the passing of information. We ...
by Jerry Campbell
Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:04 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: any one here planning on becoming mobil soon
Replies: 291
Views: 114117

Hi James, I have 95 gallons of fresh water, 65 gallons of gray water and 35 gallons of black water. We can last for 10 days without special effort. That's doing two loads of laundry and 4 showers. We have been spending the winter in the bus for the last 8 years but this was the first time we lived o...
by Jerry Campbell
Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:04 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: any one here planning on becoming mobil soon
Replies: 291
Views: 114117

Thanks Rudy, The bus enjoyed being a desert rat.
I, ve had the Air-X 400 for 3 or 4 years and have just about decided it doesn't fit in my world. I think I will turn it into an electric bicycle.
Jerry
by Jerry Campbell
Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: any one here planning on becoming mobil soon
Replies: 291
Views: 114117

Not till next fall, Left on Halloween and just rolled back in to Oregon yesterday. 6111 miles, 15 states. Some parts were stressful but all in all everything went well. Now it's time to do the money shuffle so we can go again. So good to go, So good to get back. Only hiway people really understand. ...
by Jerry Campbell
Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:44 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Happy Thanksgiving
Replies: 21
Views: 18717

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, from Bisbee, AZ
Thanks for the picture Sharkey. It's sunny and a little cool here. We will be headed for yuma in a couple of days to do some dental stuff across the border in Mexico. And then I don't know.
Peace to all of you.
Jerry and Patty
by Jerry Campbell
Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:16 pm
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: The Heating Thread
Replies: 3
Views: 2981

Hi Ya'll, We have been in northern Minnesota for the last week. This is the first time I've really used my little wood stove and I have to say it it the best I've ever had in many mobile rigs. It used about I would say 3 cubic feet of wood in that time. I carry about 4 cubic feet with me. I am thoro...
by Jerry Campbell
Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:17 pm
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Music Central
Replies: 413
Views: 157405

I haven't played in a few days so if you notice the planets starting wabble a little it's because I'm not holding up my end of the bargain. It is as simple as it can get to play. 4 strings, open tuning. I use an M-Audio pre amp, 27" Imac, with GarageBand so you can add any effects. As an electr...
by Jerry Campbell
Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:11 pm
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: I thought I saw Rudy in Arizona
Replies: 8
Views: 4459

We had a friend once upon a time who did air brushing out of a school bus. He made almost all his money using an airbrush as a sand blaster, with some kind of magnesium I think to do designs on and around windows or on mirrors, like vines and flowers, or on chrome , like the backs of mirrors and on ...
by Jerry Campbell
Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:43 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: I thought I saw Rudy in Arizona
Replies: 8
Views: 4459

Alright, the old west has returned. You have to wait a little while yet for all the gray hairs to arrive. And let me tell you there are a LOT of them. Oh no, I forgot I'm now one too. I'll be down thata way in a few weeks. It's hard to get a real good desert fix up here in the Oregon country. I try ...
by Jerry Campbell
Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:42 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Granny, have you started on your back porch yet?
Replies: 17
Views: 9621

They might bother you in this day and time but in the '70s everybody was doing it. One time I had picked a bunch of hitchhikers and we were cruising, there were several people on the back porch when a cop sped by me going so fast it made me jump. It turns out that he had been behind me for a while t...
by Jerry Campbell
Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:06 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Granny, have you started on your back porch yet?
Replies: 17
Views: 9621

Here's some over hang.

http://www.skoolie.net/forum/viewtopic. ... &start=780

I always wanted to ride on my back porch on my housetruck but I could never trust anyone else to drive the crash box with the manual two speed rearend. There was some clutching going on.
Jerry
by Jerry Campbell
Fri Oct 01, 2010 1:53 pm
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Foot Switch ??
Replies: 5
Views: 3610

Thanks, A footfaucet is just a little more than I had in mind. I may not even get the switch in before it's time to leave. I am looking for something not very big and easy to push that I can mount in the kick plate and not on the floor. I think I found a flat switch from Graingers. I'll check and se...