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also just found out about Barry Electronics in NYC exists so guess what I'm doing next week
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your business is our pleasure! your pleasure is our business!
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Can anyone recommend a SWR meter for 2 meter? Seems like the only options I can find are $10 CB meters or $250 super fancy ones. Trying to troubleshoot a homemade antenna that's not working as well as I hoped.
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Aug 31, 2014 03:13
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i got the MFJ 2m/440 one thats maybe like 69 bucks? works well enough
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Aug 31, 2014 05:14
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I thought my TM-241A had a dead memory battery, but I just replaced the fucker and it still won't store poo poo. Ah well.
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bump cause I was just talking to coworker whose father in law is a ham and thought about this thrad
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woooo ^5 theres a yaesu 817 on local CL for 500 bucks that im kinda tempted on
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need 2 get my hands on a HF rig but I don't have time or money to  wish there was a uv-5r HF equivalent but there's just not a market for it apparently construction crews and fishermen and poo poo buy the hell out of those baofengs
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PuTTY riot posted:need 2 get my hands on a HF rig but I don't have time or money to I'm thinking of selling my all-bands rig because my lot is too small and antennas are expensive... But it was given to me by a really good friend so I may just ask if he wants it back. I'd love a handheld that could do HF but I think antennas would gently caress you over. There is a mobile-sized unit that can do 10/20m IIRC but I forget the name, I know someone in the other radio thread has one.
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Sep 5, 2014 21:48
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I think you're talking about IC 706. I didn't mean uv-5r equivalent in the sense of HT form factor, more in the sense of cheap chinese mass produced thing that's Good Enough to play with
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Are people using DMR for more things beside just digital voice? D-STAR seemed cool from the data transfer abilities but right now I'm not seeing things like that with the MOTOTRBO nets people are setting up
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Sep 6, 2014 16:40
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nah it is just a digital voice right now but there are some sandbox c-bridges setup where the hard-core DMR guys are experimenting with things. i've been spending way too much money and time on DMR stuff lately and looking for repeater sites i really think it's the future, people are selling their dstar radios left and right and buying TRBO stuff. i also have a cs700 ($185 dmr HT) on the way and will post a trip report if there's any interest
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the trbo boom is weird as gently caress, and its embarrassing that i don't know much besides "you need dsd+ to decode on laptop" given that i used to work for its creator lmao clue me in on nextgen dijkstra
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ok here's a huge effortpost, and yeah trbo is really blowing up, there's over 900 amateur repeaters linked to DMR-MARC right now. DMR primer: http://tinyurl.com/dmr-guide find a DMR repeater near you: http://www.dmr-marc.net/repeaters.html (probably out of date a little) Short run-down: TDMA on 12.5 khz wide channels on the ham bands (mainly 440.) two timeslots per channel meaning a narrowband repeater can hold two simultaneous conversations at once on different talkgroups. Moto repeaters can also be linked together with something called "IP site connect" (IPSC) which allows talkgroups to span multiple repeaters and even regional networks. these talkgroups are usually on-demand so you just switch your radio to the TG you want and key your mic. if the timeslot for that TG is free (meaning another TG isn't using that timeslot) then you're good to go. other DMR repeater manufacturers have their own linking methodology but any DMR radio will work on any vendor's DMR system (Hytera, Moto, Vertex, etc.) however right now only repeaters from the same manufacturer can be linked together. most repeaters are linked into a regional net but also have a local TG for ragchewing. these regional nets are also interconnecting worldwide using something called c-bridges. c-bridges are kind of like master talkgroup servers that do nothing but facilitate IPSC on a larger scale (sort of like routers but for talkgroups.) c-bridge software has recently been virtualized so now it can be installed on CentOS at rackspace.com or whatever for $20/month instead of buying the whole piece of hardware and sticking it somewhere. Right now one of the DMR drawbacks are that the radios are kind of expensive but Connect Systems is changing that. CS has a handheld out that is popular and they are coming out with a mobile as well as another HT that will eventually have open source firmware allowing it to do NXDN, Dstar, DMR, P25 etc. if you look you can probably find a Gen 1 MotoTRBO mobile for like 200-400 depending on number of channels, power, etc. then you have to uh, obtain the software to program it. if you live close to a DMR repeater you can just try out a CS700 HT for under $200. programming SW for these is freeware. on an average DMR repeater here are examples of TG's that might be available: Local ragchew TG (just that repeater) Statewide TG (DMR repeaters in the state) Regional Network TG (all repeaters on the regional DMR system, e.g. DCI, PRN, GA-DMR, NorCAL, etc.) North America TG (bridged TG spanning multiple regional systems) WW TG (bridged worldwide) EMCOMM TG (for skywarn or whackers or whatever) (couple of others depending on what the system owners want)
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holy poo poo thanks, i'm in. there are 2 in denver 1 in foco. awesome awesome awesome
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oh yeah poo poo i forgot you moved out there, you're in business. You can probably download a local codeplug for colorado from somewhere no matter which radio you buy. if you go the CS700 route, call CS directly to order and tell them you're a ham. $180 (plus $5 for the programming cable) is the ham price. (it's $280 normally) a neckbeard has even recorded a youtube vid showing you how to program a CS700 for colorado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U83hCT5ehdU if you need help with moto programming PM me
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ok here is the plan: http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-8-WAVE-DU...=item2a28b2f010 gonna put this lil guy on a fender mount, opposite of stock fm antenna, so driver's side i think  buy this guy w/ no connector: http://www.theantennafarm.com/catalog/suburban-chevrolet-sierra-pickup-sierra-1185.html  (no drilling) use my compression tool: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Compression-Crimper-VDV211-048/202102678  on one of these: http://r.ebay.com/BpqFPh (why can't i just buy 1-3 as an add on item, ugh)  to some adapter or w/e: http://r.ebay.com/LktSPW 
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so what dumb thing am i forgetting? am i gonna have to tune this antenna or determine a proper cable length? im just gonna put my uv-5r in and get a speakermic and batt eliminator or smth
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you dont have a network analyzer? what are you, a loving poor/??? lmao!!!
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I would add an SWR meter but for now you are good (the best answer for 70cm/2m right now is the MFJ dual band one. it sucks but its the least stinky turd in the cat box. $70 iirc)
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Jonny 290 posted:I would add an SWR meter but for now you are good sweet. ill probably just email the club listserv, im sure someone's got one and would help me out.
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its all ordered. i ended up just paying them $10 to put a sma-f on the end. shouldn't be hard to fish thru the firewall. i hope. never done anything like that before.
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yeah you'll be fine. just dont get mad and yank hard if it hangs up on something
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this dmr thing sounds really really cool. is there any other primers on it i still feel uneducated about it.
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Korean Boomhauer posted:this dmr thing sounds really really cool. is there any other primers on it i still feel uneducated about it. pretty much all of the above should cover it. The annoying part is that although the voice part is a standard, there's a lot of vendor-proprietary features right now. The systems are designed primarily for commercial use so the ham things are really bleeding-edge. Also Motorola makes really nice radios but you need software that's really expensive to actually program them and it's pretty much impossible to change things without tethering it to a computer.
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You can see the formations of having a really cool broad implementation of a digital ham net with repeaters/igates that let you grab your radio and bounce voice/data off your local system several years down the line, but until then there's swamp of expensive radios, incompatible standards and half-baked software to wade through.
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  one of the wires from the cigarette adapter has already broken off the pcb ugh. I've never soldered before and also I don't have a soldering iron. do I need to buy something expensive online or can I get some el cheapo thing from radio shack/walmart or Amazon I guess? antenna gets in today, I got the nmo bracket set up already also I'm gonna remove that onstar module (it's loving analog lol) and replace with a $20 pocket that lower trim packages have that could prob hold and iPhone or smth e2: the other side of the board 
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something to strip the wire and a cheap soldering iron and ur good
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get some cheap copper braid too, it'll let you clean up that pad and remove the old wire e: it's usually solder wick
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sweet. I think we might actually have all that in the cj shop at work. I'll check when I get in
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Uncomfortable Gaze posted:get some cheap copper braid too, it'll let you clean up that pad and remove the old wire soder wick
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Silver Alicorn posted:soder wick americans pronouncing it "sauder" is the dumbest thing
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spankmeister posted:americans pronouncing it "sauder" is the dumbest thing is this like sow-na instead of saw-na
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graph posted:is this like sow-na instead of saw-na no it's more like there's "sol" in there that gets pronounced as "saw" which doesn't make any goddamned sense it would be like spelling solna but pronouncing it like sauna
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spankmeister posted:no it's more like there's "sol" in there that gets pronounced as "saw" which doesn't make any goddamned sense leftenant, add a new entry to my shedule
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spankmeister posted:americans pronouncing it "sauder" is the dumbest thing ive never understood this one
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maniacdevnull posted:shedule this one doesnt rly make sense either way
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i got a $10 iron and kit from radio shack and some of that braid desoldering stuff I think I'm gonna give it a whack tonight at my desk at work I hope I don't set off a smoke alarm or stink up the building lol
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PuTTY riot posted:i got a $10 iron and kit from radio shack and some of that braid desoldering stuff I think I'm gonna give it a whack tonight at my desk at work I hope I don't set off a smoke alarm or stink up the building lol You probably won't set off the smoke alarm but you will stink up your office. Liquid flux is really helpful for soldering if you can find it...
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