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Sniep posted:all you gotta do is get a really long wire and wrap it around a tree far away from you and then connect to the antenna that's on it. i returned it already so i guess websdr will do the trick, any cool broadcasts youve listened to recently?
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i bought a lovely radio shack 10 meter radio for 30 dollars at the hamfest and sure as poo poo i hook it up and get some 59 reports from idaho and calgary lol these things are great
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Jonny 290 posted:i bought a lovely radio shack 10 meter radio for 30 dollars at the hamfest and sure as poo poo i hook it up and get some 59 reports from idaho and calgary post pics but also hams are like some science fiction race that has forgotten that "59" is actually supposed to mean something, they just sorta chant it.
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Pham Nuwen posted:post pics if you're contesting and you can hear the person legibly without effort its 59 and you move on because you don't want 6 followup questions "how about now?" or the ever present "ey gently caress you too buddy" if you're just calling CQ on a random night hoping for some contacts, sure i give accurate RSTs and often get the same.
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anyone interested in playing with hf packet radio, specifically UUCP over AX.25 to transfer files, email, and newsgroups? i'm working out how to set up a soundcard tnc + linux AX.25 + Taylor UUCP + INN news daemon, but at some point I'm going to need someone on the other end to test things. why do this instead of the more traditional ham options? for starters, traditional ham software is basically a dumpster fire. with this, you can communicate in public newsgroups or "private" mail, and copy files to each other if you want, using regular unix programs that are actually documented. uucp over packet radio is also something that used to be reasonably common back in the day, and should still work quite well because uucp was originally designed for lovely slow links (including 300 baud modems and 300 baud packet radio). it eliminates the overhead of tcp/ip and instead should be able to just run uucp's own simple protocol over the ax.25 link-level protocol.
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well dip me in poo poo there's a yospos ham thread. i'm just a dumb radio producer who put this in his attic three years ago and is too lazy to run wire to it. i've got an ft-60r because of course i do, and would love a mobile unit to stick in a honda cr-v and a big motherfucker for my studio office. how's sdr these days, is there fun poo poo to do with that now?
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Pham Nuwen posted:anyone interested in playing with hf packet radio, specifically UUCP over AX.25 to transfer files, email, and newsgroups? i'm working out how to set up a soundcard tnc + linux AX.25 + Taylor UUCP + INN news daemon, but at some point I'm going to need someone on the other end to test things. i'm really interested in this but i haven't made the plunge on a non-handheld (except for all the RTL-SDRs and the rad1o) yet
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Cocoa Crispies posted:i'm really interested in this but i haven't made the plunge on a non-handheld (except for all the RTL-SDRs and the rad1o) yet so you'd need a hf rig... my antenna seems to do best on 20 and 40 so you'd want one of those, maybe 40 since it actually works at night. and an antenna. total you'd probably be looking at a few hundred bucks which is a lot just to try and possibly fail to send packet to me, but if you're already interested in trying hf, contact the old farts at the local ham club and see if anyone's selling.
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Jonny 290 posted:i bought a lovely radio shack 10 meter radio for 30 dollars at the hamfest and sure as poo poo i hook it up and get some 59 reports from idaho and calgary whereabouts in idaho do you know?
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Pham Nuwen posted:so you'd need a hf rig... my antenna seems to do best on 20 and 40 so you'd want one of those, maybe 40 since it actually works at night. and an antenna. total you'd probably be looking at a few hundred bucks which is a lot just to try and possibly fail to send packet to me, but if you're already interested in trying hf, contact the old farts at the local ham club and see if anyone's selling. yeah I wish the dade radio club met in different nights
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That was a fun few day reading this thread through, and thanks for the software demos Jonny 290! MMANA-GAL isn't the easiest to use, but it's fun testing stupid poo poo in it. Like would two handheld mixer beaters work as an antenna.  They did, at 305MHz. The radiation pattern was hosed though, and it had SWR of 1.7 and impedance of ~7Ohm
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i splurged with leftover cash from the car fixing saga and bought my first brand new ham radio ever. gimmick quad bander ahoy! It was only $30 more than the 8800R and $20 more than the IC-2730a, my runner-up. honestly the yaesu won because the amber backlighting matches the rest of the car. but its of course a rock solid amazing radio too. Only thing that sucks is theres no sort of bank memory, just an 800 channel glob - but you can set a flag on desired channels and scan only those channels, so it helps. really i just want one side to live on the local simplex and the other to scan all the repeaters so it works just fine for me. I dont have 6 or 10 antennas but i'm probably going to throw a Larsen 6m NMO whip in the trunk to screw on when i feel like fuckin' with the local 6m action. oh yeah the trunk did i mention i hacked up my car   i follow the palin doctrine when it comes to antennas now. so much better. two comet sbb-2 dual banders on top of larsen nmo's
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Oh poo poo that's FT-8900R right? Man, that's the radio I really want to buy some day and stuff in my car. (Or the chinese copy of it)
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Jonny 290 posted:did i mention i hacked up my car i want to swap out the sirius/xm antenna on my car with something i'll actually use but it seems like the antenna would collide with the back window should take pics and measure it on tuesday
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JointHorse posted:Oh poo poo that's FT-8900R right? Man, that's the radio I really want to buy some day and stuff in my car. (Or the chinese copy of it) The same. It's near end of life so they've got the price pretty low. I think at release they were like 479, i got mine for 339 plus tax down at ham radio outlet. Cocoa Crispies posted:i want to swap out the sirius/xm antenna on my car with something i'll actually use but it seems like the antenna would collide with the back window i didn't even think of this factor when positioning these and yet with the trunk lid up i have a perfect 1/2" gap between the window and antenna tips. i would have been so mad if i would have done them one inch closer to the front of the car see what you got there, they have NMO mounts that will install in as small as a 3/8" hole.
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do mobile radios tend to fit in single-DIN slots or are they juuust too big (and/or too warm) to do that
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yay, thread lives uh absolutely. theyre tiny now. my ft-8900r is 140x42x168 mm, din is 180x50 with plenty of depth if its a scanner you want uniden has you covered in the most pro of ways  comes with the din frame and errything
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I bought a ft-60 today. I'll post again when it comes in. it was $165 at the hamfest I went to today. I didn't want to haggle over $15 just to pay sales tax anyway. but I also got a mfj 5/8 wave 2m / 6m whip with a nmo magmount. hamfest was kind of a disappointment otherwise but it's hard when ur wife and kid are with u. kid got a bubble gun that's shaped like a killer whale lol
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just noticed the thread title. grandpa's email address was his call sign @ aol.com  i wish I'd ended up with all of his cool radio stuff
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holy poo poo the ISS is loud with my vert on the roof and preamp on, i'm getting APRS packets at about S5 or so (145.825 +/- dopp) time to hook a computer back up and ping a space station
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Jonny 290 posted:holy poo poo the ISS is loud I don't know what this means but it seems cool+good
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Sizable 6 meter opening - the season officially starts Landed some california and pacnw stations here. only gonna get better 
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jonny came by today to help me get on HF finally with this vertical  got a couple elevated ground plane radials off either wide of the fence and 90° down the sides up to my house, bout 50' either side ish? so far sounds ok but not used to HF at all, so, i defer to jonny's opinion and with that i think im finally up and running
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something i worry about with setting up a real outdoor antenna is: what do you do about lightning? i mean im in a redwood grove in a valley but id still worry about that e: and in an area that sees a lightning strike maybe once a year lol Progressive JPEG fucked around with this message at 04:38 on May 23, 2016 |
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i was suuper close to ordering an airspy but then i saw this thing and now im not so sure
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Progressive JPEG posted:something i worry about with setting up a real outdoor antenna is: Just put yer leads in a jar when ya hear a storm comin' and you'll be fine
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Last night was the first notable night with nearby lightning; i pulled the coax leads off the radios just for static protection. there's no saving against a direct hit but
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Yeah if lightning wants to gently caress u up it will, but you should try your best
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 Field Day Is In One Month Did a little costco shopping today: 10 person tent with 6'7" peak height, should be enough for me and jonny and a table to operate on  got some poo poo to sleep on:  (the smaller 30# propane tank coming too for big buddy heater + some sorta cooking device) and a small table for like drinks/food poo poo not on the main radio table  Gear wise i'm bringing: * 4x U1 AGM batteries (35Ah x 4 = 140Ah main power) * 54Ah battery box witih USB/cigarette/2x powerpoles for lighting, fans, cell charging, w/e * 2x 100w solar panels * MPPT solar charge controller * Yaesu FTdx1200 base station * AT-100ProII antenna tuner * Diamond X50 2m/440 vertical * 52 foot doublet antenna to string up (with 4:1 balun) jonny should be on the hook for his icom base radio, all antenna mounting / beams / guy wires / food and cooking tools think thats about it?
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oh yeah a bit of background on our FD ops: We are loosely affiliated with a local prepper group that rents out basically an entire campground for the Field Day weekend. We didn't go last year so i don't know what we're getting into. I think it's a bunch of Technician preppers camping and playing with their 857's and poo poo. It's super unorganized, none of the other guys log, it's all different callsigns, no coordination, but it should be fun. Anyways we're going to be operating single transmitter not-sure-of-the-class yet, Sniep is bringin his gorgeous 1200 to bash it out on HF/6 and i've got my ole 746 for HF/6/2. If you have a transmitter setup that TX's exclusively on VHF and higher, it doesn't count in the transmitter count, freebie station. So I suspect that we'll have something running on 6 and/or 2 the whole time alongside the HF station. I've wrangled a couple of CW ops that promised to come by and bash it out which I definitely wanted to make a thing. My first field day memories that really imprinted were from back in '92, where my dad and I went to a regional FD and all night long these ancient beards bashed it out on a Ten-Tec Omni V or something at like 30 WPM; it was so fun to watch. Modern day should be even more interesting now that radios and laptops can decode CW real time and allow spectators to follow
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May 28, 2016 22:56
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missing a shitload of booze imo
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> Elevation for 39.41306, -105.75667 is 10007 feet Gotta be careful a bit. Do not worry. We have things covered.
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May 28, 2016 23:00
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Sniep posted:booze wise im bringing this As someone who visited Colorado recently, you chose well. Take a sip after every 5 or 10 contacts and enjoy the reward.
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yeah i live in CO we're going up into the mountains about 10k' for FD ops going with jonny290, despite my callsign being cooler gonna have to op under his since he's got extra and i havent got to take the test yet
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there's still tiiiime yeah my awful 80 weight callsign is terrible but hey we get the whole extra expanse so ALmost as excited for the SWLing (we're going to have some loving big wires up in some loving big trees) and brats and beers as I am for the real FD ops
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Jonny 290 posted:there's still tiiiime there's not time for me to get tested and show up in FCC before FD is there?
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I dunno tbh. might be worth searching for a test session in the second or third week o june if you feel up to it You just have to pass the test and you can operate $CALL/AE in extra bands until you show up in ULS, then it's real deal and you can drop the /AE
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