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Thanks! Hope you like it - plenty more in the edit queue!

I remember that bit being pretty rough, but I don't think there was much that pushed the ground clearance. That said, even if I could give you a good answer, it can change for the better or worse, after a storm, or heavy rain or it can improve if it's graded/rebuilt - knowing how to judge it from the drivers seat is very useful.

Thanks. Hey, nothing's really changed about microphones in the last three years!

Hahahaha...

First chance I really had to use that, on my new GoPro 11...

It was superb! What was the light going back and forth horizontally?

@@robzyb I think it was a boat, given the position.

The MSR Guardian did fine though it did get a bit tedious by the end of a 20L jerry can, a bit more so by the end of two. Seemed to do the job, and the filter is fine enough to take viruses out, which a lot of the cheaper ones aren't - important if the water source might be contaminated by human waste - certainly possible around campsites. If you don't like pumping, there's also the MSR Guardian Gravity, which is a similar filter that you can hang a bag up, but you need to hang it about 2m up for 0.5L/min of flow - that'd take you 40 minutes to fill a jerry can, compared to about 10 for the Guardian with the pump. On the other hand, you can leave it there and go do something else.

She's certainly very cute, but I wouldn't want to be around if she was hungry and angry!

@@DropTableAdventurespeople say the same thing about me (Well, actually, they don't, as far as I know, but I won't let that get in the way of a good joke 🤣)

Yeah! For 2m / VHF a tape measure yagi is a bit unwieldy, and this one's for HF!? I'll finish it someday...

Lol

Thanks for your comment. I feel like it's a bit of a "Ship of Theseus" type situation - that line of lode would have to at least somewhat consist of what was dug out of the original "broken hill" - so in my mind it is still somewhat the same hill, it's just been a bit... scrambled up. But you are right that it is not exactly the "broken hill" as such. Shame nobody even made a drawing of it though... I wonder if there's one lying around in an old shoebox somewhere.

@DropTableAdventures true,the peaks from what I read i think was approximately where the heap is now,I'll try to find the text again. It was one those nights going down a wormhole on broken Hill, hours upon hours of searching online, if if find it I will post it here for you,as I don't have any social media accounts

​@@stevennott6139 Yeah, if you can dig that up I'd love to see it. Thanks.

Yeah, I've heard mixed opinions about their longevity. Probably depends on the size and shape of the original hole, the type of tyre, and how/where you use the tyre afterwards...

Thanks - it really is amazing scenery, and even to Australians a lot of people have no concept of what it's actually like out there in the much lesser populated parts of our country (almost 90% of Australians live within 50km of the coast). When I first read "desert", all I thought of was just endless, featureless sand - but it is really so much more.

Thanks for the comment. It does seem the music is a bit polarising - I've tried without, but the soundtrack does feel a bit bare. Wish I could upload two versions of the soundtrack so you can pick...

Started at Wiluna with full tank + jerry cans. 178L of diesel at Kunawarritji (Well 33) for the Ranger - vehicle plus jerry cans. (= 16.7L/100km, so they did a bit better than we did in the 200 - we did 22.8L/100km!) They put in 112.5L at Halls Creek, but they left the jerry cans empty. Thanks for the comment, glad you're enjoying it!

@@DropTableAdventures awesome Planning a trip next year in my 2023 Triton and in the process of working out how much fuel I'll need to carry Thanks for the information 👍

Good to hear from you!

Thanks for the comment, glad you like it! I've got more videos coming, I have a huge amount of footage to sort through and edit... I've just been busy actually doing stuff :)

We have both had a bit of experience at climbing. Although most of it's not actually as vertical as it looks, more of a steep scramble. It's really only the "round the outside" bit that involves actual climbing - but there's plenty of handholds and footholds - just don't do it on a wet day, and make sure you have a secure grip before you "use" that hand or foot...

For the chairlift up Kosciusko? We just parked in Thredbo, there's a big car park just down Friday Drive. The ski rental shop at Thredbo claims to have snow shoes for rental: www.thredbo.com.au/ski-snowboard-rental/ - maybe give them a call to confirm.

I'd definitely recommend it! Good luck, I hope it goes well for you.

Thanks for that! As nice as the Z Fc is, it's inescapably a low end camera, so chances are the buyer of it is probably going to consider using it with their existing lenses, and I felt this was under-represented in a lot of reviews. I have however since purchased another lens - a Viltrox 13mm f/1.4 - which I can highly recommend. The effective light gathering capability is significantly better than the TTArtisan 17mm lens even though both are f/1.4 on paper. And unlike the TTArtisan, it has autofocus! However it's quite a bit more expensive, but overall still fairly cheap at about US$450. And Nikon don't even make anything with such a large aperture at that focal length - at any price!

Ahh, so my title wasn't totally clickbait then :)

Thanks! Could never find a simple comparison, just endless pages of discussion about how "this is better than that" and "the professionals only use this". But, we can simply find out!

Thanks!

Thanks for the comment, and glad you still (somewhat I hope) enjoyed it! I unfortunately didn't have a decent external microphone and windsock setup at the time, so I didn't really capture much natural ambient noise, only a lot of loud wind noise... and the in-car audio tends just to be engine noise, loudly blowing aircon, and bits of random conversations about all sorts of things. And the drone shots obviously don't come with sound... Though I'd really love to be able to present that as it was.

@@DropTableAdventures Thanks for replying! Maybe that's a "Director's Cut" version waiting to happen some day! :-) :-) I do admit that ~music overlay~ is a pet peeve of mine, as very many YT creators make BRILLIANT videos (as per yours), then seem to think that their viewers will somehow lose interest in it if subjected to "the sounds of silence" / or the wind/car noises you refer to. I just don't think that is true. Indeed, tastes in music are so widely variable that it's more likely the MUSIC that will force them to change the channel. I have left it too late to visit Australia, I think (I'm a Limey, lived most of my life in the US), but have always always been fascinated by the country since my old Geography master showed us a 16mm film called "Cattle Carters." , , , if you're interested you can even watch it if you want on the BP film library (Google 'BP Film Cattle Carters'). It's still a good little film! With the advent of TH-cam I have had a chance to vicariously (at least) travel the remote tracks of your fair Island Continent! All the best, and thanks again for the reply! ---Mike

​@@zzmike I'll certainly consider it - I was planning at some point (probably not for a few months at least...) to cut all these videos together into one long movie-length epic, minus the intros and outros. I'd definitely consider making a version of that cut without the music, if I was to do that. (I do wish TH-cam would let you upload two audio tracks, so you could select "with music" or "without music"...) I'll have a look and see if I can find that film - seems interesting.

@@DropTableAdventures "Great minds" . . . (on the two versions: "with" and "without": 'make your choice' . . . I had wondered why creators did not make two versions available). I did not know that YT proscribed having two versions of the same video. Yes, it's a great little yarn about a "grizzled" Aussie cattle train driver who gets lumbered with a "fresh-off-the-boat" Limey co-driver. "Adventures" ensue . . . :- It planted a seed in my young mind as a schoolboy, for sure. )

@@zzmikelove the music but to each his own!

Thanks!

I do own a printer... it's just a 3D one :) And yes, you are correct - a satphone is smaller and lighter than all the HF gear, and would possibly be a better choice for many. Though as I said, the Garmin InReach is a better choice than that as satphone calls are expensive and often unproductive (call the dealership for tech advice, get put on hold for half an hour ($50) then have the call drop? Better to text a friend and have them call.). We have the PLB for life threatening emergencies, which is satellite based but has no ongoing fees. But the thing that I love is that HF gear can talk directly to somebody else's without having infrastructure. The HF gear doesn't cost a single cent to operate, nobody's charging for data or time (on amateur radio that is - and amateur radio being a class license now, don't even need to pay for license renewal - just once off for the exam and callsign). And it's a shared medium - I can just put a call out to whoever's listening, whereas with the satphone you need someone specific to call. And while HF data is slow, we still had it all - could talk to people with voice, send text messages and a position ping every 5 minutes via APRS, email via WinLink, share photos via SSTV, even post some (very low res) pics to social media!

I was just reminded of this by a recent announcement... if I was to have bought a satphone, I probably would have bought the Thuraya SatSleeve (it attaches to the back of your phone, and you make the call with your phone, but you can make an emergency call by pressing a button on the device itself, without a phone.) And then this happened, where Thuraya satellite #2 has died, meaning no more coverage in most of the Asia Pacific region, and your satphone's now a brick: www.pivotel.com.au/knowledge-base/faqs/thuraya-network-closure-faqs.html (I'd likely have actually bought an InReach, which uses the Iridium network, though.) Oh, and I missed your question regarding weight - we have a 3.8T GVM upgrade, the vehicle has been weighed and the weight of these items added up. It was (only just!) under GVM. The total weight of all the spares and fluids was only about 100kg.

It's a bit of clickbait - watch the video to see how I justify the claim, I do have an argument as to how that doesn't count (hint: prominance) :)