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Jonny 290 posted:PICS INC. best Lets Play i've seen in a while
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Feb 27, 2014 18:57
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and then you work on the antenna a bit more and  
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Feb 27, 2014 20:59
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i ordered a bunch of stuff today, most notably the baofeng UV-5RE+, with a nagoya RH-771, UT-106, USB cable and also a pigtail for my RTLSDR dongle so i can connect SMA antennas to it.
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Feb 27, 2014 21:33
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i dont understand the basic premise of wanting to talk to ham users
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Feb 27, 2014 21:34
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spankmeister posted:i ordered a bunch of stuff today, most notably the baofeng UV-5RE+, with a nagoya RH-771, UT-106, USB cable and also a pigtail for my RTLSDR dongle so i can connect SMA antennas to it. lemme know how you like that antenna. its fukken huge and would prob only be good for fukken around in the yard
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Feb 27, 2014 21:39
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Bloody posted:i dont understand the basic premise of wanting to talk to ham users same but yospos
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Feb 27, 2014 21:39
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PuTTY riot posted:lemme know how you like that antenna. its fukken huge and would prob only be good for fukken around in the yard i probably ordered a fake because it was like $6 but oh well.
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Feb 27, 2014 21:44
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spankmeister posted:i probably ordered a fake because it was like $6 but oh well. No, that's the real one, hahah. Nice haul! Should make for a bunch of fun Bloody posted:i dont understand the basic premise of wanting to talk to ham users if nobody but old men get their ham license, nobody but old men will be on the air I have been a big amateur radio community hater over the past several years but this thread has proven to me that young people still give a gently caress about this, i have changed my mind thanks guys 
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Feb 27, 2014 22:28
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yeah but fundamentally like who cares idk my understanding of hammers is limited to the notion that they say hi to each other and then mail each other signal strength reports or w/e but like... so what?
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Feb 27, 2014 22:45
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Bloody posted:yeah but fundamentally like who cares my understanding of drag racers is that they drive 1/4 mile to see who goes faster then they go home. my understanding of football is they run with a ball and see who runs faster but like...so what
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Feb 27, 2014 22:48
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i mean i get what ur saying and the new car smell hasn't worn off for me cause im not even licensed yet, but just like... idk its the equivalent of putting dd-wrt on ur home router and doing a bunch of sperg poo poo just to do it.
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Feb 27, 2014 22:49
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PuTTY riot posted:my understanding of drag racers is that they drive 1/4 mile to see who goes faster then they go home. drag racing is p dumb football pays really well talking to greybeards is not interesting, if i wanted to talk to them i would just talk to them at work
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Feb 27, 2014 22:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWE7FrVY9T4 is this u irl bloody?
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Feb 27, 2014 22:50
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you can talk about whatever you want as long as you're not committing crimes or uttering profanity. talk about beer, talk about cars, talk about gardening. Make some friends that have shared interests, get some licenses, get on the radio and start runnin your mouth. it's easy There are contexts in which yes, you're right, the entirety of communications is "Here's my call, I received your call, here's your signal report, next", but contest operators like that are only active now and then and easy to avoid
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Feb 27, 2014 22:52
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PuTTY riot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWE7FrVY9T4 basically yes
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Feb 27, 2014 22:55
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Jonny 290 posted:you can talk about whatever you want as long as you're not committing crimes or uttering profanity. ya i listed to the local club's net on sunday and dude was like 'yep been layin on the couch all day watching the blow dryer race' (it was raining in daytona sunday) the tech to me is cooler than the 'talkin to dude across town' stuff
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Feb 27, 2014 23:09
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idk it would be neat to be licensed to buy cool radio gear and hook it up to cool rc planes and make a drone instead of relying on the government to kill foreigners for me
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Feb 27, 2014 23:12
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can i listen to local atc on one of the cheapo radios
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Feb 27, 2014 23:13
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maniacdevnull posted:idk it would be neat to be licensed to buy cool radio gear and hook it up to cool rc planes and make a drone instead of relying on the government to kill foreigners for me theyre rly strict about how far u can go w/ rc planes
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Feb 27, 2014 23:16
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Werthog 95 posted:can i listen to local atc on one of the cheapo radios no, but u should be able to w/ one of those cheapo rtl-sdr dongles
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Feb 27, 2014 23:17
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That's not a frequency limitation or anything by the way, it's just that air traffic still uses AM modulation and the little chinarigs only demodulate FM.
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Feb 27, 2014 23:19
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Jonny 290 posted:That's not a frequency limitation or anything by the way, it's just that air traffic still uses AM modulation and the little chinarigs only demodulate FM. what the baofengs do below 136 mhz? b/c air traffic control is like 118
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Feb 27, 2014 23:20
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Werthog 95 posted:can i listen to local atc on one of the cheapo radios Even better is using LiveATC on your computer or phone to listen to ATC chatter.
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Feb 28, 2014 00:04
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I'm more into listening to things than talking
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Feb 28, 2014 00:25
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Fax Sender posted:I'm more into listening to things than talking This is a big part of it too. You can have a shitload of fun listening and learning and building, and if you want to get into transmitting and actually getting your voice out there, you can compartmentalize that and do it on the side. there are more engineering challenges with transmitting than receiving - power handling, interference to your neighbor's TV, power supply - so many times throughout the years I have been receive-only and been completely fulfilled in the hobby. And it's true that you don't need your license to listen, but it comes in as a huge advantage in two ways: -Hams give other hams more respect than unlicensed people, so they will be more forthcoming with help and info -Amateur radio licenses grant you waivers to operate otherwise prohibited radios in many states. If you have a ham license, it is completely normal that you have a scanner in your car. If you don't, they're going to crawl up your rear end WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS. My license rides in my wallet and I've never had anybody question my radio activities, but if they do I have the backing of state law
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Feb 28, 2014 00:34
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can i listen to nasa satellites n poo poo
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Feb 28, 2014 01:25
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Bloody posted:can i listen to nasa satellites n poo poo http://www.belvoireagle.com/news/family_life/article_36718200-9fb5-11e3-95a8-0017a43b2370.html
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Feb 28, 2014 01:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0efTTWMl3v0
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Feb 28, 2014 01:35
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yes, you can get this from the internet, but isn't pulling it out of the air way cooler?
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Feb 28, 2014 01:39
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PuTTY riot posted:yes, you can get this from the internet, but isn't pulling it out of the air way cooler? ... uh YES???!??!?!?
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Feb 28, 2014 01:53
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ok this thread has just been pushing me closer and closer to the edge here...ive been to a local ham radio festival a few times, there's a ham radio store not far from where i live... j290 could you see about posting more of a beginners guide or something? i see lots of talk about pretty damned cheap radios and neat looking SDR stuff but its all still kind of a lot and a bit confusing. where do u start, what's some good beginner hardware (even if just for listening) and/or books/sites/other info?
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Feb 28, 2014 01:59
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im a beginner. i got a baofeng uv-5r(a) but any uv-5r is fine. as far as the test goes hamstudy.org is p neat. all of the questions for the test are available so its just finding something that meshes w/ how u study. im taking the test monday 
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Feb 28, 2014 02:02
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qrz.com is a valuable resource, they have practice tests there as well let me see if i can find some guides and such. For radios if you're in the US, start out with as much Baofeng on Amazon Prime as you can afford. The GT-3 is pretty popular right now, but it's like 65 or 70 bucks which approaches the price of an eBay I/Y/K* handheld and the UV-5RA+ seems popular so I say go for that instead. Get the USB cable, I hear they're a bitch to program through the keypad but I don't know personally. For antennas I believe the Nagoya 770 or 771, also on Amazon, are really popular, and are super-recommended as the stock antenna is poo poo. Wouxun handhelds are about in the middle of the price vs quality continuum versus the I/Y/K's and the Baofengs. Don't know much about them. *Icom/Yaesu/Kenwood, the big three Japanese amateur radio manufacturers. Generally the benchmark for quality mass-produced radios. Most finicky hams pick high end radios of these brands. They're all roughly equal and pretty much a Chevy/Ford/Dodge thing. I'm an Icom guy. E: as far as SDR goes, I just ordered one of these today. Order any dongle with a similar trip and i'll LP us through getting it set up. Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Feb 28, 2014 03:30
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should i get the 8" or 16" nagoya? id imagine 16" is a little big but is it likely to work that much better that it's worth the extra length? the lil ducky it came w/ can't even pick up broadcast FM inside this metal buidling
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Feb 28, 2014 04:22
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https://www.ettus.com/product/details/X310-KIT rule 36
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Feb 28, 2014 04:25
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i got a technician license in 2005 and upgraded to general in 2010. i found out later my deceased grandfather was really into amateur radio and i picked up one of his old heathkit receivers from the basement that i played with with a random wire antenna. i've basically only hosed around on 2m and 70cm. i got a raspberry pi over christmas so i made a little aprs digipeater/i-gate at my parents house which is in bumfuck nowhere so i only picked up packets from other digipeaters which was kinda boring. rpi aprs is pretty easy to set up though, you just need a usb sound card and interface to the radio and soundmodem plus some aprs software like aprx will do the rest. setting up something to do audio isolation and ptt was literally my first soldering experience and it worked out fine. i even used the interface to make a echolink node just to see if it worked. i really want get some hf going but i'm in college in a lovely apartment so i have limited financial means and space to set up a radio and antenna. so far i have an icom 2100 and a chinese baofeng uv-b5
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Feb 28, 2014 06:19
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starsoldier posted:i got a technician license in 2005 and upgraded to general in 2010. i found out later my deceased grandfather was really into amateur radio and i picked up one of his old heathkit receivers from the basement that i played with with a random wire antenna. i've basically only hosed around on 2m and 70cm. i got a raspberry pi over christmas so i made a little aprs digipeater/i-gate at my parents house which is in bumfuck nowhere so i only picked up packets from other digipeaters which was kinda boring. rpi aprs is pretty easy to set up though, you just need a usb sound card and interface to the radio and soundmodem plus some aprs software like aprx will do the rest. setting up something to do audio isolation and ptt was literally my first soldering experience and it worked out fine. i even used the interface to make a echolink node just to see if it worked. i really want get some hf going but i'm in college in a lovely apartment so i have limited financial means and space to set up a radio and antenna. so far i have an icom 2100 and a chinese baofeng uv-b5 welcome and i hope you are enjoying the thread I didn't have enough scratch to get an HF radio going for years and years, I definitely feel you. It stung so bad that the first purchase I made after my first real long adult relationship fell apart was my Icom 735. I've been thinking about taking my old Alinco 2m radio and putting APRS on it, i'd like to know more about the cheap and easy APRS setup for sure!
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Feb 28, 2014 15:13
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IMO the HT antenna to get is the Comet SMA-24, it's basically the same as the nagoya but much thinner and lighter also the SMA-209 for when you're in good coverage areas, Icom FA-S270C is pro as gently caress though and the Diamond RH-770 if you want to show off, it's fragile as gently caress but it performs really well at both 2m and 70cm
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Feb 28, 2014 16:20
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this is the HT antenna that i use on my FT-60R
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i have a bunch of rtlsdr gear kicking around here from a project last year, think i'll get it set back up after this cool thread there wasn't a whole lot to listen to last time i checked the uk airwaves. just air traffic control and watching plane transponders. ships never worked here for some reasons, i blame the terrible software
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