Where to see a Pasq ADV1

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Paul

Beta Tester
Is there a plan in place yet for rides or rallies?
Apr 11-13 I'm heading to the spring dust off in Spragueville, Iowa.
It's 3 days of all kinds of riding. Everything from twisty highways, gravel roads to private offroad park.
Wife and I are taking a couple different bikes. I will try some mild offroad with the trailer.
That is if the bike will run. Replaced the factory battery and the new battery worked great for a week. Now it won't hold a charge.
Anyway would love to find a place to hang out with other testers
 
At this point, my plan is to have a booth at:
  • BMW MOA Rally in Tennessee (June 19-21)
  • Touratech Rally in Washington (June 26 - 29)
  • BMW RA Rally in OH (Labor Day)
I am also planning to attend as a participant the Get On ADV Fest Sturgis, SD (July 17th - 20th). Doing it as a participant because they don't seem to have booths.

I won't be able to make the Dust Off in Spragueville this year, but would aim to do it next year!

What other rallies/events do you all know about and are thinking about attending? I'm open to going to more events!
 
60/40 I'm going to Touratech in June....
@PBKrarup 80/20 I'm joining the Doc Wong crew for the Distinguished Gentlemen's ride, my first (aint getting gussied up) but Doc is a friend so...
 
Which DGR?

I've attended half-a-dozen of Doc's rides/seminars, he's a good guy. Getting up there, tho (yeah, same as me, so...)
 
I knew Gary, at least enough to watch him fly past me on his Ninja 250 a few times. Went to his memorial service.

I'm a maybe for this, I might be committed to taking down a passed-away ham's rather tall antenna assembly up in Richmond that day. Depends on whether I can get some other folks to help disassemble & remove it. Fingers crossed, etc.
 
We used Motorola radios for our surveyors pre-cell days. Took a lightning strike to the mast to get ownership to pull down the antenna.
$100k mistake, back when that meant real money :P
 
Tony D. said:
We used Motorola radios for our surveyors pre-cell days. Took a lightning strike to the mast to get ownership to pull down the antenna.
$100k mistake, back when that meant real money :P
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Smart hams (i.e. ones who follow the laws, regulations, etc.) actually ground their lightning-susceptible antennae. Dumb ones don't, and occasionally pay for their dumbness.

I worked as a solo IT contractor for US West Wireless out of the Seattle office (actually Bellevue) for a year or so and learned quite a bit of antenna technology. Then I got handed the responsibility of supporting Portland, OR, as well, had to drive down a few times a week to support them. The lead engineer got used to paying for my dinner at Salty's on the Columbia Salty's Waterfront Seafood Grills Portland Menus - saltys.com. Had to take a conference call on one drive down, notified them that I was roaming that distance, they okayed the expense. $1,500 for that month. They paid it.
 
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I have T-Mobile and last year I had great reception. I don't remember anyone complaining as they had in years past, and last year was the first year they mentioned "great cell reception" in their PR...a multi-carrier tower must have gone in sometime between 6/23 and 6/24.
 
Well, that antenna takedown happened on the 14th, rusted to hell & gone, parts falling off, etc. We were able to collapse the mast into itself and cut the rotation motor off. Nobody got hurt, everything got done in an hour of focused effort.

One of the guys is a professional welder and showed us his shop afterwards. As a ham, he builds masts and bases & other stuff at a cost much lower than the stuff you see in catalogs at equal quality.

I mentioned that I was going to be getting the ADV1 and moving my ham radio to it along with the battery box, solar panel, etc., and he expressed interest in seeing it and potentially helping put it all together as a "something new & different". I am NOT going to pass up that opportunity!!

Tony, you're very welcome to come along and see what this guy's shop is like and provide tech assistance!
 
PBKrarup said:
Well, that antenna takedown happened on the 14th, rusted to hell & gone, parts falling off, etc. We were able to collapse the mast into itself and cut the rotation motor off. Nobody got hurt, everything got done in an hour of focused effort.

One of the guys is a professional welder and showed us his shop afterwards. As a ham, he builds masts and bases & other stuff at a cost much lower than the stuff you see in catalogs at equal quality.

I mentioned that I was going to be getting the ADV1 and moving my ham radio to it along with the battery box, solar panel, etc., and he expressed interest in seeing it and potentially helping put it all together as a "something new & different". I am NOT going to pass up that opportunity!!

Tony, you're very welcome to come along and see what this guy's shop is like and provide tech assistance!
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Let's def continue this conversation in July when I'm back Paul!
Thanks to you too Rob, see ya soon...
 
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