Todd: Yours is the second transmitter to make that pass. John K5PRO came up to Casper last year to pick up a Continental 1KW from Los Alamos, NM and went back that way to avoid some traffic. He pulled a trailer with a 4 cylinder Ford Ranger hauling the 850 lbs plus trailer.
People in the 70s wondered why the western states were so against the 55 mph speed limit. Drives out here are measured in hours and the times your brother mentioned are probably at 80 mph or more. The nearest town that we drive through going south is Wheatland and that is 1 1/2 hours from Casper, Cheyenne (next town to go through) is 2 1/2 hours. Cheyenne exit is #7 and my Casper exit is 185, long trip at best. We don't have roadside call boxes either. Wonder where your brother is? 73 Jim de W5JO > Last July I drove from northern New England to the southwest > corner of Colorado to pick up a broadcast transmitter. 2400+ miles each > way, we did it in 5 1/2 days. Took my dad along too, he had a blast. Our > only detour was to visit the Four Corners monument before coming back. > Made me wonder how many others out there had hauled a 1400 lb > transmitter up through Wolf Creek Pass? > > Geoff, sounds like Texas must be a lot like Wyoming for distance > measurments. Back east here we go by miles or towns/villages/cities, but > I have a brother out in Wyoming, and whenever we go anywhere out there > he figures it by the hour, not the mile. Never hear him saying "Oh, > that's about 150 miles from here", it's always "that's a couple hours > east" or such. Weird.
