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Sniep posted:we actually espouse loudly from all rooftops to not buy things with radios in them from china the baofeng works while my kenwood mobile keeps losing its memory even though i put a new backup battery i'm probably too addicted to reading something awful on the shitter at work to give up my smartphone anyway 
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big thing is that they have next to no spectral filtering and they poo poo rf all over the band Though i'll sympathize with you on backup memory troubles. i had to solder a button cell into that alinco i picked up a while back. dont even make me think about the kenwood tr-7800 that requires four nicads to live in the radio at all times if you want the memories to stay backed up for UP TO TEN DAYS!
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Jul 10, 2015 21:37
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i'm moving to albuquerque soon and when i get there i'll probably buy an old pickup before long, and then i'll just wire the kenwood directly to the battery (well, directly via a fuse) so it'll always get that sweet trickle of juice that keeps the memory alive even when the radio is turned off.
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Jul 10, 2015 21:40
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just buy an antique nokia or something and put your sim card in it
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Jul 10, 2015 21:53
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you can roll with a gsm startac on t-mo for the classiest telephoning experience in 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 21:58
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Jonny 290 posted:big thing is that they have next to no spectral filtering and they poo poo rf all over the band idea: put a supercap
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Jul 10, 2015 23:17
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spankmeister posted:idea: put a supercap the battery backup scheme in this radio is literally "battery power the cpu." its just diode-ORed Vcc from the battery and actual DC in. srs has like 5 mA draw or something stupid
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Jul 10, 2015 23:45
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Jul 10, 2015 23:48
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more like kenwoodnt
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55 minutes is all it took to assemble this pile at the hamfest Old rear end wheatstone bridge, 2 2meter rigs (plus a parts spare), cw keyer, Bencher paddle, really nice roller inductor, Heathkit SWR meter and an antenna tuner. total outlay ~145 and the paddle was 65 of that e:  yeah those switches feel exactly as good as you imagine they do. Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jul 11, 2015 |
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Jul 11, 2015 16:49
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Jonny 290 posted:
sproiingggg
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Jul 11, 2015 16:54
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the torimeter
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Jul 11, 2015 16:58
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Jonny 290 posted:the torimeter
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Jul 11, 2015 17:01
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"I don't need any new radios" *buys 3 radios*
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Jul 11, 2015 17:10
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those are going to baofeng kids on the simplex net because i'm sick of their piece of crap HT's jello that tuner's getting rebuilt and if i can get it solid, you get the tuner and swr meter
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Jul 11, 2015 17:12
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lmao e: no tone board looks like? but for simplex wgaf
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u own so much jonny
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Jul 11, 2015 17:14
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ic-28 has tone encode yeah but you hit a button and select 1 through 37 which corresponds to a chart of pl tones fortunately it uses the same encoder IC as my 271a and i have the important tones memorized lol the good one powers up too they had a cig plug on it no clue on the kenwood, but it was ten bucks
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kenwood works. solid as a brick. has a heatsink the size of a paperback and a fan too. 65 watts high about 5 on low icom works. tone encoder is good. 55 watts high 7 on low. both sound wonderful on receive. hafta get sniep on for a compare and contrast later on
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shotgun on the kenwood ... i call it, i need a strong duty radio for packet/simplex and that is perfect (i dont need tone for what role i need it for) imho shine up that icom and give it to someone ITC who is suffering the b/o funk and doesnt know it lol, gently caress the zombie net ppl
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My ham radio career: 1. buy cheap baofeng b/c why not it's cheap and it "works" 2. hmm maybe i should get licensed so i can actually use it legally 3. have license and realize it's a piece of garbage and want a decent radio
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spankmeister posted:My ham radio career: and this is why I can never truly be honest as I talk poo poo on baofeng bc this is what its value is if it gets new people into the hobby, then it's worthwhile as a brand
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Sniep posted:and this is why I can never truly be honest as I talk poo poo on baofeng bc this is what its value is yes, also RTL-SDR
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spankmeister posted:yes, also RTL-SDR you can do way mor ecool poo poo w/ one of these than a baofeng imo
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short of buying a uniden scanner how else are you gonna decode p25 on 800 mhz trunked system? or do mototrbo decoding on 2m? therse lots of other stuff u can do too
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PuTTY riot posted:you can do way mor ecool poo poo w/ one of these than a baofeng imo yeah for real post ur HT layout: 
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ur making me want a real ht. 95% of the time I'm not in town I won't be in my suburban w/ my yaesu mobile. also all I've got for 440 is my baofeng. I'm flying to Dallas this coming weekend for my grandmas 80th bday and I wanna work the repeater on top of the green building downtown. I've got no idea how to manually program it and I don't want to learn. so I'll program it with chirp before we leave. hopefully my POS baofeng does the trick. I should scope dfw Craigslist even tho I won't have time to drive to buy radio stuff, it's a last minute overnight trip
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jonny290, in your time working at motorola, did you become aware at any point of a cloned copy of hitler's brain, kept in a jar and used to design the programming systems for their syntor x and spectra radios because jesus christ
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if you live in a dense area with kids and poo poo around, 462.5625 mhz is a loving trip and a half to just monitor on
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Sniep posted:yeah for real you guise I really love my F6A. I've had it for years and I've replaced the case on it etc. When I was a kid I wanted a TH-78a and that thing was a brick. with tri-band antenna everybody's got:  I've also got a shorty for when I don't need the range or don't want to get poked in the side wearing it on my belt  swoon 
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yeah i hear a lot of people swear by those kenwood F6 HTs... know a bunch of people who have 'em i cant say i've ever touched the 220 band tho before, is there any activity there?
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Sniep posted:yeah i hear a lot of people swear by those kenwood F6 HTs... know a bunch of people who have 'em we have a couple repeaters here in the Minneapolis area but not a ton of activity.
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i have a baofeng and i can't pick up poo poo. it *might* be where i live if i'm blocked by apartments or something, but idk. it's a bit disheartening, honestly.
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Jul 13, 2015 13:58
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can you pick up like.. NOAA weather radio?
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i need to take it outside and see if i can get anything. i have a feeling i'm just in a weird spot
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20m seems kinda dead this morning. is that cause it's Monday at 9am? I have yet to make a fukken qso and I'm starting to get discouraged.
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ease, ease you'll get it and yeah 20's quiet this morning. it *can* be a 24/7 band but not always. afternoons it should be blowing up through at least 10, 11 PM
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im on 2-11 shift this week so i guess ill give the dial another spin later. picked up KP2NP out of long island but a bunch of stations are on him and im currently ripping the little mermaid for this flight to dallas anyway
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