welcome back to the rest of the story well last fall we put these Midland
radios into that can even turn it on here hey can I put these Midland radios
into the 76 and the Gator we have two more of these micro mobiles tombstone
we're not sure we're going to put them in yet one is definitely going to be the
combine the other one is still undecided if it'll be the 46 the 82 40 20 is I'm
gonna do the same good there's no way we'd hear it but we have time to decide
that but honestly guys remember me saying if I did it all we're having
distance issues we're dad and Ryan having a hard time picking me up with
the radios they had all seems how I was using this micro mobile and they're
using the handhelds all I had in here used to have in here was this this
little antenna that's all this micro Mobile had for an antenna on it the
range was okay if I was sitting pretty well within eyesight of dad and Ryan I
mean I could hear we're right next to each other we could hear each other fine
but my friend Matt he works for micro uh for Midland radio said I can solve that
problem that says really what do you have in mind and as a result he sent us
some heavy-duty antennas I just got done installing it this is let's get the
other one up here for comparison the other one you guys see a little bit
of a difference oh here is the new one I get to sit up here this is the new one
and goes all the way up to the steering wheel there and here's the old one it's
quite a difference now we already installed one of these bigger antennas
on the gator and it does work quite well as a matter of fact we took the Gator
out to the end of this farm up in the corner and we were able to hit each
other just fine as I'm pretty clear there's no guessing as far as what we
were saying to each other these radios do work great it's just that was
literally the only problem is the reception issues between me and dad and
Ryan the handhelds worked great I'm the Micro Mobile's especially the one in the
gator works just as good just as well as the the handheld like walkie-talkies so
what I ended up doing I don't have a spot on the cab setup yet but if you
guys can see that is the base that black hockey puck is the base for this antenna
it comes with an adequate amount of wire but the only problem is that's a magnet
mount and the 76 is roof because they recommend putting this on the highest
point of machine that they're on is all plastic so simply put I'm just going to
get a metal plate and I'll just silicone I'll drill the holes out
I'll silicone it and then I'll just screw it on to the roof so I have a
place to mount this
here fairly fairly large antenna but that's what's going on with the 76 as of
right right now I have plenty of other projects that are coming down the line a
couple of them are currently sitting behind me but yeah we got these radios
last fall to use during harvest very positive experience with them it's
really nice going from cell phones back these mid laner radios we used to have
the old Motorola phones about us radio walkie talkies I found mine it's down at
my house I should show you that some time going from those big walkie-talkies
to cell phones which cell phones definitely reduce the the carrying
weight instead of having a radio big bulky radio hanging off your belt the
problem is these aren't really reliable 100% of the time it's too easy for
somebody not to check their text messages or to not hear their cell phone
the radios going from a cell phone back to using his midland midland radios has
been quite a relief actually for ryan and i a example a really good example
would be last fall we were changing the green auger we're moving from this
smaller bin right here at the end of my finger and we were moving the auger up
into the 20,000 bushel bin now the reason that it was such a relief to have
those walkie-talkies those handhelds is because we did that at 7 o'clock at
night which in November is completely dark out Ryan was able to tell me by
using those radios while isn't backing the tractor up what I should be doing
with the auger if I should be raising it lowering it if I need to be going to the
left to the right tell me where I had to go to get it over top that green bin
that would have been almost impossible with cellphones because like with the
walkie-talkie he was able to talk and put it down and focus on what he's doing
with the cell phone as we go no texting in a situation like that would have been
completely out of the question talking on the phone would be plausible the only
problem is is that for me when I was driving I had the radio
pinned up on my coat here so I could hear anything he was saying and I didn't
have to have that cellphone on to the side of my head while I'm trying to look
back up behind me and trying to steer the tractor it just it was it would have
happened if we didn't have those radios but I tell you what it would have taken
us a lot longer and on top of that the windows blowing out that night so
there's also a winter ception there too with cell phones the cell phones like to
pick up wind but these are a very very welcome sight back onto the farm I
myself I like the the CB style wah aspect of it really handy too as in like
going across the fields easiest to grab it yell at it tell Ryan that needs to
get his face I have a cell phone and focus on what he's doing I can't say too
much because I'm I tend to be just as bad YouTube seems like we're on our
phones a lot more than what we used to be not because we want to be but we do
it because well for all of our viewers because it's constantly managing our
YouTube accounts with our phones between monitoring comments and videos that are
being uploaded and everything else because it takes up until I got that
laptop when I was uploading videos they used to take if I was doing two videos
it would probably take about 12 hours to upload my internet service is terrible
but we alleviated that so well I hope you guys are looking for seeing the
midland radios in use throughout the rest of the year I know I am we haven't
used them all winter but in light of the fact that we could be in the field in
another week or two yeah you heard me right
we're gonna be getting those handhelds charged back up and that's why I'm
finishing up putting this antenna onto this machine also for the time being
that is not the way you're supposed to do it for the record you're supposed to
have these antennas on top of cab but until like I just told you I have way
too mounted on top of cab it's just going to be on the fender because we're
not communicating a whole lot with it yet but we will be so that's it for this
video hope you guys enjoyed it but until next time or tomorrow night
take care take it easy keep in touch I'll talk to you guys tomorrow
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