Steaming some shrimp

 On the coast cooking some shrimp for dinner tonight.

On the SC coast

 Meet up with my brother and sister and their spouses😎

Great time as always.

Gen monthly run

 At a minimum we run our generator monthly.  Only had to run it for four hours do to a power outage.

Pickup truck Hf radio

 

Mag mount works well in bed of pickup truck on 20 meter hamstick.

Dumpster radio

 

Mag mount 20 meter hamstick and ham radio on a 3 yard dumpster.

Added GMRS mobile

 Bought a Anytone 779 GMRS 20 watts but really is only 15/13.5 watts depending the YouTube you watch. However in the paperwork it does say the US version is 18 watts so I am OK with that.

I did a quick field test from my V 1 HT to the mobile just to see if I can reach the local hospital just over four miles away.  I did so I am happy with the radio.  I need a newer computer to update the radio so I can change menu items 1-16, but it is usable now🤓

Power

 Above you see a Orange flashlight opened showing four aaa batteries in a sleeve so they will work in a light that calls for a C cell battery.  You also see red aaa sleeve’s for C batteries and white sleeve’s for a D battery replacement.  

Below I have a 14 watt solar charging a 4 aa/aaa charger to charge my ht radio battery and for batteries to make more sleeve’s.