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A place where radio operators, and those interested, can enjoy their hobby of tinkering with radios.
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  2. I notice this thread doesn’t see much activity. It is the logical place for this link - some of which is current (sorry!) the rest historic. https://www.outerbanksvoice.com/2023/06/19/how-the-obx-repeater-association-carries-on-fessendens-legacy/
  3. I guess us hams would rather talk then type..
  4. Ok, so this problem had been causing me issues for about a MONTH and it was driving me up a wall. For about three years I could run FT8 without a problem from 6 meters to 180. Groovey. I made DXCC and WAS this way. Mixed i used some voice as well. Did two things. Grounded the PC that I was using and replaced the USB cable with a 3ft. cable. The previous one was about six ft. long. In the process of putting in the 3ft cable I made about eight turns in the wire. The USB cable already had ferrite cores on both ends. I also moved the external USB sound card...under the desk. And I've been operating on 15 and 10 without any problems for two hours. I have not been able to find a reason online as to what is the cause of this problem. Dropped connection. Anyway. I made a wild guess and think it's gone now.
  5. Original W0... Wife and Son are license holders as well. I used to work on a remote Non-Magnetic site (I was Electrical Engineer on superconducting submarine sensors) so I set up my wife and my Son with 2 meter stations using Yagi's and towers. I ran 160 Watts in the truck. Each fixed station ran 100 watts on 10 element Yagis. I could talk my son and my wife consistently simplex over 100 miles. My wife's car ran 100 Watts on two meters. We used to talk while she and I both drove to work. It was nice. My trucks had 180 Amp alternators that I retro fitted to support all the radio gear. Thank God for junk yards! Many times I was stuck in traffic in Blizzards in the middle of nowhere talking with my family and watching the battery charging - not discharging. My truck 5/8 wave had the chrome burned off it from the power. I could hit repeaters within approximately 200 miles. Some repeaters gave me access to HF communications. Cell phones and age replaced the radios, but our license's are still current.
  6. Before my time but 6 meters has been open lately.
  7. Got into Ham radio on the 50's, anybody remember the 6 m band Gooney box? WA2FEG
  8. I just applied for DXCC!
  9. Well that did not goes as anticipated. I had almost 20 operators. The exercise had about 12 states. I'm sure its going to be in QST. That was amazing.
  10. Thirteen states involved across the US and about 12 counties in my state. Going to be local net control for 15 operators. Three HF and 12 VHF. Moving all sorts of voice and digital traffic.
  11. FIJI on 40 meters using FTB about -17DB. AMAZING.
  12. I'm by no way saying anyone should but.... With a minor mod you can "ILLEGALLY" open up the radio to 24.715 - 30.105. You would lose the warranty and the FCC approval. This is called an European mod so you can use the radio on the approved European frequencies if you are in their country. This also works on the President Lincoln II+ radios.
  13. FT-60 with an Arrow Ant is the go to rig. Gpredict and a lensatic compass for flight path. Using a duplexer and a split lets me use one radio for up and down and then I run 5 channels off freq to adjust for the Doppler shift. I'd like to mount it on a rotor and pipe it into one of the shacks. This is the half a shack out in the shop... This is the current office shack. A prime example of there being no such thing as buy once cry once in regards to radio
  14. Guys, I don’t want this sort of thing here. If you can’t get along, please do not respond to each other. Thanks.
  15. I guess that was your better half with the same name and avatar ......
  16. Tell me more about how you work the birds. I'm very interested in this. I have done it just not as a ham. in fact, i set up the system at our SO/EOC for internet communications via sats. Great project.
  17. Most of my day is spent mobile although I have 1.5 shacks at the house. EME and working satellites can be pretty fun but it's too much like contesting for me.
  18. You haven't seen any Baofeng setup of mine. You keep trying though. I could list all of the radios I have but it wouldn't mean anything to you because you have no idea about the history of any of them or what they do. That's the point I'm trying to impart but you just want to be hostile. It's cute really.
  19. Is KM4HAG your call sign? I've seen your Baofeng setup and it explains why you took offense when somebody that you don't even know dislikes China crap. Congrats for getting triggered on a none-personal post that had zero to do with you, and trying to make a point by talking somebody down who shows interest in HAM. I'm sure that's exactly what the dwindling HAM community needs! You got your license just in 2015 and think that gives you the right to tell people what hardware is worthwhile and what not? You don't don't own the TH-D74A yet you try to pass knowledge on it. I don't have much knowledge on HAM, but I sure do know a lot more about electronics than you do. I just read up on a few forums, tells me all I need to know. Keeping buy that cheap crap from China. America is proud of you.
  20. It's totally cheating. But i like an unfair advantage. My FT100 can pipe directly to the PC without a repeater...using Fusion i can pop up on a repeater anywhere in the world. Not a lot of skill in learning how to do it. Also not exactly great in case of a disaster. But you can always find someone to talk to. Even with a tech license you can work large sections of the world. I'm not sure who the winner is going to be in the digital radio world. My bet is you'll have radios that do DMR-DSTAR and FUSION all in one. Anyway. I got interested in it because i was working with VOIP technology at work and i wanted to know more about the workings.
  21. You really have no idea what you are getting into. But go ahead and get that discontinued $600 radio. You may not want to throw around credentials if that's the sort of mindset you have towards electronic gear you know very little about. Sure would be funny if a simple roof tech knew more about something than a dude with a fancy sheepskin now wouldn't it?
  22. Yeah, Mr. Roof manufacturer, trying to to talk down on someone for wanting to buy a quality product over $11 garbage. **** off.
  23. You just don't know what you don't know. Enjoy your $600 HT..... fool indeed. FYI, this isn't your thread.
  24. Wtf. Do you want me to take apart both radios, reverse engineer them in my e-lab down to the signal processing in every IC there may be, and tell YOU exactly what the differences are in the components, circuit design, integrated software and why one is far superior over the other? And I don't even need my MEng degree in electronics for that. Do me a favor and stay out of my thread, because I don't listen to fools.
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