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blk posted:I thought Honda ads couldn't get any worse than the Michael Bolton ones, but I was wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSJ5reqihQk This has been an ongoing theme (internet cats) for Honda for a bit now.
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Jonny 290 posted:He's out for the January VHF QSO Party. Probably not its daily driver config, I bet he is coming down from a hilltop or something. Fun stuff! The second I saw that I thought "jonny 290"
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Citycop posted:I just snapped these pictures on my way home. I wish that bridge height sign would have read 13'  Can he actually put out enough power to use that monstrosity I wonder though...
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My dad was a Ham and had an almost as impressive antenna on the back of his Lumina APV when I was growing up. It had a built-in winch that allowed him to crank it out of the way to open the hatch. It didn't have nearly as many elements on it as that one does, but it did have a whip that could be screwed into the top to make the whole thing over 20' tall. It wasn't attached all the time (had a custom quick release too), but it was easy to see him coming over a hill. Luckily it didn't make the jump to any of his other cars. There was that one time though when he was driving his '88 735i and talking on the radio when the antenna on his trunklid was hit by lightning.
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CommieGIR posted:
The better your antenna, the less power you should need.
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Pham Nuwen posted:The better your antenna, the less power you should need. As a former ham, the more antennas you have, the better.
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/cto/4274769982.html  quote:1992 Honda Prelude SI.. 144,737 mi on car 60,000 mi on newer 2.3 motor, 5 speed trans, Header, Enkei rimes, Full body Kit, Power windows, Power moon roof. All works good. motor needs tuning. Good project car, no money to finish must sell....
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Rhyno posted:YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Knock off the spoiler, get a stock hood, paint it black and I'll bet it wouldn't be bad looking at all. That's just my opinion, take it for what it's worth 
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:Knock off the spoiler, get a stock hood, paint it black and I'll bet it wouldn't be bad looking at all. That's just my opinion, take it for what it's worth Dude I love badly riced cars, if his price wasn't in the batshit level I'd make an offer.
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Rhyno posted:Dude I love badly riced cars, if his price wasn't in the batshit level I'd make an offer. Oh for sure, $3500 for a hacked 22 year old Prelude (with a base engine no less) is crazy, even in a post Cash for Clunkers world.
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Sudo Echo posted:Cable was too short That's so close to understanding how a crimp works, without having an actual full lightbulb moment, I'm impressed. E: Or are the strands intertwined? Looks kind of too skinny for that
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Sudo Echo posted:Cable was too short The context from JRITS is that the previous owner asked a "motorsport" shop to move the car's battery to the trunk. This was their solution when the cable they used wasn't long enough. Yes, the full starting amperage was flowing through that splice. No fuse either.
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Mr.Radar posted:The context from JRITS is that the previous owner asked a "motorsport" shop to move the car's battery to the trunk. This was their solution when the cable they used wasn't long enough. Yes, the full starting amperage was flowing through that splice. No fuse either. I thought it was speaker cable!
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surebet posted:Is that a With skulls.
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surebet posted:Is that a It's a subtle commentary on the fact that you could have eliminated the problem before it came to term.
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I get wanting to show off your ~individuality~ with a couple stickers or something, but what the hell kinda thought process leads to that?
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surebet posted:I get wanting to show off your ~individuality~ with a couple stickers or something, but what the hell kinda
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Rhyno posted:YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS As a Prelude owner I am not surprised. The poo poo you see in the Prelude "community" includes, but is not limited to, park bench wings, "hella sick drifts," and quite literally people bragging about speeding tickets.  But as it is with cars and driving in general, the community consists of mostly idiots. e: guess some of this should go in the "these are the people you share a road with" thread. Macichne Leainig fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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It's a shame, I used to have an ex-Japan Prelude Si with the H22A and it was a great car, decent power for something that size, comfortable and it put up with me running it up to 8000rpm more than I should have.
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 gently caress you dad, my music owns. If the music's too loud you're too o'ld
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Tha Chodesweller posted:As a Prelude owner I am not surprised. The poo poo you see in the Prelude "community" includes, but is not limited to, park bench wings, "hella sick drifts," and quite literally people bragging about speeding tickets. Speeding tickets can only be had in fast cars. That's why I was never pulled over in my '84 Skyhawk or my '91 Tercel. Not once.
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:Speeding tickets can only be had in fast cars. That's why I was never pulled over in my '84 Skyhawk or my '91 Tercel. I wonder what they think of my speeding in a 98 TDI 
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:Speeding tickets can only be had in fast cars. That's why I was never pulled over in my '84 Skyhawk or my '91 Tercel. You could probably end up speeding if you were going downhill and liberally applying the gas pedal.
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Tha Chodesweller posted:You could probably end up speeding if you were going downhill and liberally applying the gas pedal. Didn't even need a downhill, just commitment. 
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Sudo Echo posted:Cable was too short Ho-lee poo poo. Gotta share this on FB and tag all my electrician friends.
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Sudo Echo posted:Cable was too short I don't know, that might be better than the half-assed (and obviously hidden after the fact) crimp that the shop that helped me on my LS1 swap left in my positive battery cable. They at least used a proper crimp, but applied it so poorly that any force at all made it wiggle. There's a reason they're out of business now, and it sure as poo poo isn't the too-large sum of money I paid them (before finding poo poo like that).
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Terrible car thing: I'm in a hospital waiting for imaging and for the last 10 minutes some classy lady has been recounting the accident she caused that killed three people in which she somehow manages to make herself out as the victim because the police officers asked her hard questions. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she's laughing this much telling the story because she's nervous and is realizing the rest of the room wants to murder her.
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surebet posted:I get wanting to show off your ~individuality~ with a couple stickers or something, but what the hell kinda thought process leads to that? "I'm really digging the look of this cow bar and the stick on vents, but you know what'll really bring this car together? A coat rack and dog leash anchors!"
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Slowest car I got pulled over in was a 1987 300D, my LIDAR jammer was still in a box on a ship 
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Slowest car I've been pulled over in was a second generation civic with a two-speed hondamatic. The rear numberplate had fallen off.
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Das Volk posted:Slowest car I got pulled over in was a 1987 300D, my LIDAR jammer was still in a box on a ship Holy poo poo, I didn't know those things could even break the speed limit. ANY speed limit.
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Slim Pickens posted:"I'm really digging the look of this cow bar and the stick on vents, but you know what'll really bring this car together? A coat rack and dog leash anchors!" Hey man, if you're going to make your car look like poo poo, go big or go home. 
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CommieGIR posted:
That actually isn't how antennas work - you don't need a lot of power to feed a large antenna with a lot of gain. For instance (back when I actually used ham radios instead of just messing with the electronics) I once talked to a dude in Cuba, from Massachusetts, with 5 watts of power, on 40 meter/7MHz. How? a 60 foot tower on a 100 foot hill with a 50 foot building under it and a big yagi antenna. The difference between a 750 watt transmitter and a 1500 watt transmitter is 3 decibels signal strength... you can easily gain that much by adding a few non driven elements to a yagi type beam antenna. Of course, the signal will be much more directional, but that can be good. For most amateurs working with high frequencies (and therefore short, manageable wavelengths - I'd say around 2 meter and above as a ballpark figure) it's probably more beneficial to concentrate on antenna gain, height, and feedline impedance matching + signal loss than it is to concentrate on pushing more watts up the cable. The best part is that the antenna gain and improving your feedline characteristics serve you just as well when receiving as they do when transmitting, while cranking up the power output only helps while transmitting. It's even better for parabolic antennas, the gain goes up as a function of diameter squared. Tough to build em for low frequencies, though, you end up cutting the dish shape into a goddamn mountain valley like the radio telescope at Arecibo and then hanging the feedhorn over it. </derail> kastein fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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surebet posted:Terrible car thing: I'm in a hospital waiting for imaging and for the last 10 minutes some classy lady has been recounting the accident she caused that killed three people in which she somehow manages to make herself out as the victim because the police officers asked her hard questions. Laughter is a pretty common response when you're under a lot of stress. I've talked to someone who killed a cyclist and they were laughing but you could tell they were really off.
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kastein posted:That actually isn't how antennas work Dude, I lurk/skim a lot of threads, but anytime I see a wall of text from you I read it with a focus I bet my boss wishes I had.
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:Speeding tickets can only be had in fast cars. That's why I was never pulled over in my '84 Skyhawk or my '91 Tercel.  It was also the only car I owned in which I was able to peg the ( 85mph ) speedometer. Ah, to be 18 and retarded again.
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triple clutcher posted:all my speeding tickets were received while driving a 1993 Ford Tempo. 1972 Datsun 610 Station Wagon
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