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there's a little soldering and chop chop that needs to be done; are you comfy with what they lay out for these? if so, hit it up, its a good project and deal
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Jonny 290 posted:there's a little soldering and chop chop that needs to be done; are you comfy with what they lay out for these? if so, hit it up, its a good project and deal yeah i think i could handle. its something ive been trying to get better at and probably just need to do more of. sweet. now i just gotta wait for the wife to find something that she wants that's ~$30
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Jan 26, 2015 22:36
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PuTTY riot posted:yeah i think i could handle. its something ive been trying to get better at and probably just need to do more of. sweet. now i just gotta wait for the wife to find something that she wants that's ~$30 two things of hand lotion or one thing of hair dye should suffice, if my books are to be trusted
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Jan 26, 2015 22:39
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Jonny 290 posted:two things of hand lotion or one thing of hair dye should suffice, if my books are to be trusted oh poo poo you're right. she does this thing called birchbox which is like barkbox but for makeup/cosmetics samples and poo poo i should just tell her to get a full size of her favorite thing out of it
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Jan 26, 2015 22:41
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mrs just re-subscribed to Graze and she's really excited  it's cute
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Jan 26, 2015 22:43
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Jonny 290 posted:mrs just re-subscribed to Graze and she's really excited i can't hate at all, i can totally understand. i get really irrationally excited when my $3 order from shenzhen shows up
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so since i did taxes and we are getting A LOT back, i convinced wife that we should each spend $100 on whatever the gently caress we want. i want something for HF. either a ham it up, the kit I linked a few posts ago, or a proper SDR transceiver kit. but the peaberry one linked in the DIY thread is $150. oops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnZsVajpkA
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Jan 27, 2015 05:13
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50 shades of graybeard
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found a ham it up 'new never used' for $30 on qrz from a air force guy in italy. gonna see if he's still got it. now i gotta think about antennas. idk what i want to get out of this thing anyway. besides my dual band stuff i have an old magmount cb antenna. should i just longwire it for now? PuTTY riot fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Jan 28, 2015 03:08
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PuTTY riot posted:found a ham it up 'new never used' for $30 on qrz from a air force guy in italy. gonna see if he's still got it. you'll get more intermodulation interference if you use direct conversion (china full band radio) vs upconversion (ham it up)in my experience
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how long is the wait time between a callsign expiring and when someone else can scoop it up because a callsign that was -made- for me is gonna expire very soon
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Korean Boomhauer posted:how long is the wait time between a callsign expiring and when someone else can scoop it up because a callsign that was -made- for me is gonna expire very soon E: https://ssl.qrz.com/vec Renewals: The FCC accepts renewals only when the license is within 90 days of expiration. Updates such as changes of address and replacement certificates may be ordered at any time. If Your License Has Expired Once your license expires, you have a two year grace period during which you may file for reinstatement. You may not operate (transmit) whatsoever once your license has expired. After the 2 year grace period has passed, the FCC will cancel your license and make it available for reissue. If
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Palace of Hate posted:you'll get more intermodulation interference if you use direct conversion (china full band radio) vs upconversion (ham it up)in my experience nice. i shouldn't have too many issues with that either way. there aren't really any big sources of qrm around here tho.
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this will probably be the last ham thing i get to buy for a while cause we're squirreling money away for another kid. i guess thats why most hams are graybeards.
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one thing to put on your list might be one of those qrp antenna tuners from china that are on ebay now it will act as a bit of a filter, knocking down some of the worst IMD sources, and you can goof with antennas more without awful impedance mismatches rendering your stuff useless just never forget that they never make antennas more efficient or better, they just reduce mismatch losses. and they need to always be as close to the feedpoint as possible, with very few exceptions
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Jonny 290 posted:one thing to put on your list might be one of those qrp antenna tuners from china that are on ebay now yeah, that and a couple pigtails should be enough for a while e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdFTwGv-CZY watchin dis PuTTY riot fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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lol i think i need to replace the battery on my lovely netbook that i use as a home jumpbox and packet terminal interface root@KI6***:/etc# acpi -i Battery 0: Unknown, 90% Battery 0: design capacity 5400 mAh, last full capacity 2445 mAh = 45%
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paper licenses are going away =/ http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-paperless-amateur-radio-license-policy-goes-into-effect-on-february-17
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Jonny 290 posted:paper licenses are going away =/ that sucks. i gotta get mine laminated i guess.
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does that mean I don't have to find mine to go take the general exam
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so if i want to get a paper license i better act fast?
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Bloody posted:so if i want to get a paper license i better act fast? Under the new procedures, licensees will access their current official authorization (“Active” status only) via the ULS License Manager. The FCC will continue to provide paper license documents to all licensees who notify the Commission that they prefer to receive one. Licensees also will be able to print out an official authorization — as well as an unofficial “reference copy” — from the ULS License Manager. can you print out the 'official authorization' right now? all i have seen is the one with REFERENCE COPY watermarked on it
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The WTB recently stopped using distinctive paper stock to produce hard copy licenses and has been printing these on “standard, white recycled paper.” The Bureau noted that the distinctive paper stock it had used was six times more expensive than the plain recycled paper it now uses. lol i think mine was on cardstock now i gotta check
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dang jello this would be such a good starter station vintage beef 
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drat I'd be down with that but I'm too far away
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Jonny 290 posted:dang jello this would be such a good starter station one of the local guys was telling another guy on the repeater he'd loan out his 'ancient' icom but the guy he offered to loan it to said he wouldn't have time to play with it. might ask him at the meeting on Monday. I sent that $500 digipeater link from the DIY ham thread to the club listserv and apparently it might actually get bought, lol.
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So how much study time should be dedicated to getting a basic license? Getting into radio is something that I"m really interested in but I've got so much poo poo going on right now I was wondering if I could do it during the semester or should it be something that I reserve for a summer break.
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faxlore posted:So how much study time should be dedicated to getting a basic license? Getting into radio is something that I"m really interested in but I've got so much poo poo going on right now I was wondering if I could do it during the semester or should it be something that I reserve for a summer break. find a phone app with the question pool and take a practice test each time you poo poo. if you don't know the answer offhand, look it up afterwards.
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I got technician and general with a few weeks of half hearted study for each while in school and going through practice exams online. Longest part of studying for the general was learning Morse code only to have the code requirement dropped a couple months after I took the exam
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hamstudy.org 20 minutes a day until you pass tech. then move to 20 minutes a day on the general test until you pass it. then take both practice tests a few times and you're good. extra is hard, tech and general are easy.
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the whole 'eliminate obvious wrong answers' strat works well too. it's very much a 'how good are you at taking tests' type of test if that makes sense
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is anyone here a skywarn spotter? can't decide if that's a thing i'm wanting to do. it's kinda blizzarding here, but all the repeaters that are supposedly skywarn are dead silent.
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ham club decided to buy that new repeater i found for $500 in the other ham thread. then they decided we should get two if we can and ppl literally started throwing hundred dollar bills at the treasurer. it was kinda weird. paid my dues and threw in an extra $15 for the repeater fund...
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possible echolink on the ole miss repeater. real glad I didn't miss this meeting there were a lot of hams there even a female and a guy I knew from college who I didn't know was a ham. good poo poo.
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tahts tight dude, glad there was some interesting stuff going on. I gotta find the right set to roll with out here, gotta make sure I dodge the EMCOMM whackers and the old men with 100k stations
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Jonny 290 posted:tahts tight dude, glad there was some interesting stuff going on. everyone seems pretty even keeled. like, one of the main reasons they went for a new one is because our current one is for reliability in an emergency, but that's really reasonable imo, because we do get tornado warnings multiple times a year, and that's when the thing gets busy. but next meeting will be about HF antennas so it's a good mix
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oh poo poo there's a god drat tunable IF filter in the R820t sdr stick http://www.rtl-sdr.com/testing-built-filter-r820t-rtl-sdr/
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yayyyyy i left my original sdr dongle back in AR but my new one is out for delivery got one o them R820T2 ones off amazon, also a UHF adapter so I can plug it into the Big Antennas overloadsville here we come hahahaha e: i'm just a few miles from DIA so I expect really good results playing with ADS-B this time
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Jonny 290 posted:yayyyyy i left my original sdr dongle back in AR but my new one is out for delivery u gonna put it on that tram you've got up in the air? i keyed up a 'peater ~30 miles away on my drive home last night and now I want to put one up on my roof. I can't even hit the 440 repeater from my driveway cause I'm kind of on the side of a hill
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