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The 2026 Caterpillar Pickup Truck
With but two months left in 2025, it has been quite a year. Recapping, you disowned your two slug kids, finally you rid yourself of the nagging, dumpy looking XYL. As a bonus you now have two girlfriends, and you own two premium SDRs, one from Apache Anon and the other from FLEX. The 200-foot tower complete with the 16 element Log Periodic antenna is finally working and now you are looking for something exciting to do with $100K sitting in your checking account.
Did I also mention that after listening to a presentation from Jason Huang you invested heavily into Nvidia. His idea is to take cloud computing that is tethered to servers sitting in large brick and mortar facilities and to link it to mobile radio networks without the servers. This spells a new ham radio option using Huang's idea.
So back to the chunk of change sitting in your personal checking account. To kill some time, you watched one of your favorite movies, The Fighting Seabees. In that movie John Wayne drives a CAT D7 into some fuel tanks which explodes literally roasting alive the Japanese landing force on Island X. It was then you remembered something about Caterpillar that you saw on a news feed.
Caterpillar for 2026 is now producing a high-end pickup truck. This top-of-the-line offering is targeted at a $100K price point. It will have a 500 HP diesel engine. I have trouble thinking of power and horses in the same breath. Converted to watts that is 373KW. Imagine sitting atop a 373KW "leenear amp"... you are heard everywhere!
The CAT pickup uses an industrial grade of steel construction which is aimed at longevity. Its drawbar pulling capacity rivals Ford and the Dodge RAM. So, it not only shows, but it works too. It is the Alpha Male, and you will never think of a Cybertruck again.
While the aforementioned is a bit cheeky in light of the plight of now a majority of Americans, it none the less is an actual scenario and reflects badly on how materialistic we have all become. C'mon a 200-foot tower with a log periodic, but the two-girlfriend part might be OK.
Caterpillar is an astute business entity that has been around for over 100 years. They would not enter this market segment without a clear view of the market potential and a reasonable expectation of success. Yellow says it all.
When you know stuff, you buy the right stuff.
73's
Pete N6QW