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Miller Jeep Trail / Ham Radio Field Day w/ Outdoor Adventure USA – June 21 – 23

A quick intro of this awesome summertime event:
Every Year I participate in Outdoor Adventure USA’s Summerfest which consists of wheeling and operating ham radio as part of an National here event called Field Day which is organized by the ARRL. http://www.arrl.org/field-day

The Trail that will be ran is called the Miller Jeep Trail and will be lead by Tom Severin from Badlands off Road Adventures.

(keep an eye out of some dutch oven chocolate cake!)
There will be a potluck dinner saturday night and you’re very strongly encouraged to prepare something to share.

For field day We will have numerous ham radio stations set up that will be operated straight for a 24 hour period trying to score as many points as possible by making contacts with people all over the country.
we will be operating under the clubs call sign so there is no need to be a licensed ham radio operator.

If you are looking to become a licensed ham, there will be on site testing from technician class to extra class.
Please chime in on the O.A. U.S.A. message board to let us know if you’ll be planning on taking a test.

See Below for more in depth info:

Field Day / Summer Fest: http://forums.oausa.net/viewforum.php?f=177

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Nissan Titan Front (M205) ARB Air Locker Update / Pre-Order

After reviewing this blogs feedback that was received over the last 2 weeks or so, ARB has made it clear that this locker may get made in the future regardless but the only way this project will jump in priority will be to put an order in for preferably 50 lockers. Even at 40 lockers this project would be ahead full steam and we can have these on your doorstep by Christmas 2013.  And although this approach isn’t what I was hoping for, I really want to get this project moving being that we’ve been kicking this around for a few YEARS.

From the date that the order for 40 lockers is placed, ARB can engineer and have a final production run made in Australia within 15 weeks (~4 Months).  From there they are shipped from Australia to the US which takes about 8 weeks.

So here’s what were going to have to do,  continue to spread the word on this blog and everyone that has responded will be contacted via e-mail in a few weeks to be notified of the pre-order/deposit. Anyone that wants to put a deposit down may do so online (https://ruggedrocksoffroad.com/nissan-titan-front-air-locker-by-arb-m205-2004-preorder-deposit-p-57977.html) or by phone by June 1st, 2013. We will have to take a 30% deposit on the lockers based on the price of $1040.86. The order will be placed with ARB on June 3rd which would put the Lockers in our hands in late November/early December.

ARB will only be making a maximum of about 50 lockers in the first batch and based on how fast these sell, ARB will be making decisions on continuing to produce this product. This potentially, but doubtfully, could be the only batch of this product that ARB produces. It’s highly recommended that if you want an ARB locker, that you make a deposit for this first batch by June 1st.

Please spread the word, & thank you for you interest in the M205 Titan front ARB Locker.

Steven Lutz a.k.a “SteeevO”
Founder of Rugged Rocks