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Freshwater Louie posted:after checking out some nets i am sad to say that oh my god all ham stereotypes are true below 88MHz its all obama, guns, and gays  what tables
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nice. i will confess that the most exciting thing about getting my new radio is getting on 6 meters with 100 watts of juice. afaik it's a pretty spergy band. ive never ever played with that band and now that i'm pretty much a committed vhf/uhf dork I need to get swift with it. can't decide between the diamond 2-element 6 meter beam and the MFJ 3 element right now. both about a hundo the name in this is coincidental but this is amazingly parallel to my ham career http://www.rmvhf.org/wordpress/?page_id=895
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Jun 14, 2015 18:35
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check out this songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc
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Jun 14, 2015 18:38
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tumor looking batty posted:check out this songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc check out of this thread
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Jun 14, 2015 18:39
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my random length of wire antenna thrown out the window and jammed into the rx rca jack isn't working so well. hmm.
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Jun 14, 2015 19:54
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PuTTY riot posted:my random length of wire antenna thrown out the window and jammed into the rx rca jack isn't working so well. hmm. Did you ground the radio?
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Jun 14, 2015 20:01
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SperginMcBadposter posted:Did you ground the radio? no. hmm. I have to burg and then I'll try this. someone on 14.313 was coming in just barely. lol. when I soldered power poles onto the power cord it started to stink like old cigarettes. ugh.
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Jun 14, 2015 20:06
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auuuuuuuuuuugh
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Jun 14, 2015 20:12
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powerpole everythinggggg so i discovered these connectors that are apparently standard operating procedure for RC hobby poo poo, called deans ultra plugs and the actual design of the thing is "yeah just solder bare wire to these two terminals, and i guess heat shrink over em if you want it pretty" like they thought that was an acceptable engineering compromise
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Jun 14, 2015 22:01
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Those are bad don't use them. Idk maybe they're really vibration proof or smth? And of course high current. But otherwise idk why they would use them.
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Jun 14, 2015 22:14
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i like the idea of pre-built field day antennas and crap with extra sections you can powerpole on like add an 80m wire for a while in the evening or w/e
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Jun 15, 2015 03:33
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jello whats the evening report? you should be hearing guys on 40 and maybe 20 meters
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Jun 15, 2015 06:18
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Jonny 290 posted:i like the idea of pre-built field day antennas and crap with extra sections you can powerpole on i saw a video where someone makes a part that changes painter pole threading to pvc threading specifically for this. i think i wanna set up the suburban to be able to do hf "mobile" Jonny 290 posted:jello whats the evening report? you should be hearing guys on 40 and maybe 20 meters listening to 2 guys chat on 40 meters ya. rly rly want to get something up in the air now. need to pick a band and just do a dipole or something simple.
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Jun 15, 2015 06:34
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this is it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-cUNs274rU
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Jun 15, 2015 06:34
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now im listening to cw. i have no idea what theyre saying but its cool hearing it come thru. i have the better filter too i think. in the manual the better one had a mark next to it
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Jun 15, 2015 06:38
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i want jonny to put a 60 meter guy-wired mast on top of haus bus
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Jonny 290 posted:i like the idea of pre-built field day antennas and crap with extra sections you can powerpole on i've seen it done with something as simple as alligator clips on like 26ga wire, but yeah, powerpoles would be better feel like mspaint more than googling tonight:  antenna wire gets looped back on itself and soldered (or crimped with those cable crimping sleeves or get fancy with your knots), string provides non-conducting break, connect the dangling connectors to switch bands yeah yeah yeah, you can build traps and poo poo but this is "convinced the wife to let me put up a dipole at our caribbean vacation bungalow" sort of compact not for 80m though. you're not going to want to lower something that long just to snap in some connectors, more of a 10 , 15, 20 sort of idea or "throw some wire off the apartment balcony" sort of thing, yaknow? Beast of Bourbon posted:i want jonny to put a 60 meter guy-wired mast on top of haus bus i want jonny to build the crazy 6m/2m beam thing and put it on his hambuckets
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idea: portable 80m dipole using wire, two helium balloons, string, and rocks
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atomicthumbs posted:idea: portable 80m dipole using wire, two helium balloons, string, and rocks dudes that experiment on 472 khz (600 meters) do this with a single balloon vertical Personally i think its smarter to run power via twisted pair up to a quadcopter set to hover, and couple RF to the pair PuTTY riot posted:now im listening to cw. i have no idea what theyre saying but its cool hearing it come thru. i have the better filter too i think. in the manual the better one had a mark next to it if you get audio with the cw filter pushed in, you have the filter. theres no output if you select an unfilled filter slot i'd say for your first antenna that a 20 dipole will be a pretty good exercise, get you used to tuning and all that.
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So with my certification tests out of the way, I'm now looking for babby's first radio. Holy crap there are a lot of different radios on the market. From perusing back through the thread it seems that a simple HT is usually recommended for a first time radio. However I am personally much more interested in messing around with APRS and other digital modes so I'm thinking that a mobile rig might be a better choice for me. For the most part the rig will probably be left at my office where I have room to mess around with the rig and a remote SDR receiving computer to start getting some hands on experience. Besides that I guess I could also see myself using it to check into local Ecomm nets on 2 meter just to get some familiarity with how they operate. Hopefully you guys could throw me some suggestions based on the above? One of the big things that I'm not sure on is if it better to get a mobile rig with a built in TNC or just get a separate one if it would save me a decent % of cash. I would kind of like to not go over $300 as a starting budget.
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get a separate TNC, that way you can hang it off a $10 hamfest radio later and free up your voice rig I'll go ahead and throw out a suggestion for the Icom 2300H if you want a new radio. Universal has em for 170 bucks. 65 watts of 2 meter powah. The V8000 is a little nicer and beefier and has a front-firing speaker (actually REALLY NICE) but its about 40 bucks more. e: the yaesu ft1900r is only 140 bucks. get that. that's a wonderful deal
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Jun 15, 2015 18:12
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that aprs 2m propagation map is so cool imho
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PuTTY riot posted:that aprs 2m propagation map is so cool imho wait till you find the spot maps http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&ML=M&Map=W2LN&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N oh wait you just did watch the 6m north american map for a day and you will see why i'm so GD excited about getting on six meters finally
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Jonny 290 posted:wait till you find the spot maps all of this poo poo is rly cool. i really need to get a dipole up. i have a so-239 panel mount connector. what type of wire should i use? i have a bunch of romex but something more stranded and flexible that would blend in better might be a better choice. i see some ppl use a balun and others dont. thoughts?
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50-100 foot roll of speaker wire from dollar tree or something. it has a bit of stretch but not too much do a balun but just coil up four to six turns of coax, about a 6" radius. don't scatter-wind them, try to keep them one layer and in order. wrap it all with enough tape to keep its shape, boom you just built a 1:1 choke balun
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Jun 15, 2015 21:48
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my 746 already shipped holy poo poo now that's a good seller
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i read ur post on THE OTHER FORUM about it and it was a good post. someone trying to sell a pro for 1k on there today lol
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registered a call sign, now i gotta wait for my card before i can legally transmit another week 
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Thanks! yeah i figured since i made some good noob mistakes that i'd lay everything out and hopefully it will help others. ------ a 6 meter story in 3 pics and an email: this morning  Then an email code: which brings us QSOs:  ~magic band~
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Jonny 290 posted:Thanks! yeah i figured since i made some good noob mistakes that i'd lay everything out and hopefully it will help others. what am I looking at here?
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Captain Foo posted:what am I looking at here? propogation maps. this dot talked to that dot.
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Captain Foo posted:what am I looking at here? Most of the time, it's difficult to make overseas contacts on VHF.
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Captain Foo posted:what am I looking at here? the six meter band has propagation about like any other line of sight VHF band but it bends a bit more. In addition, wind shear at extremely high altitudes can cause temporary hotspots in the ionosphere called "sporadic E". E-skip is fast, shows up out of nowhere, disappears randomly, and can reflect these waves because they're big enough. VERY VERY rarely you will see e-skip that's strong enough to reflect 2 meters. That's about as high as it'll ever go. But it happens several times a day during the summer at levels that can support 6 meter bounces. So you have a band that has short enough wavelengths that you can put up a pretty loving good antenna many wavelengths above ground, but it still can bounce from that mirror 100 miles up. Result: stupidly long distances for contacts. Gotta jump on it, though. Just got another email alert (I get an email whenever e-skip may happen within 400 miles):  It's possible to get DXCC (100 countries worked) on 6 meters, and people do it on the reg. Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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FUCKIN' MAGIC i'm so excited.
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coworker just told me MFJ's headquarters is here in MS. in starkville of all fukken places. wtf.
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hahaha oh poo poo i thought you knew that
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i didn't. but i dont go out there that place is a shithole. the whole 'golden triangle' area is
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i went there one time to get mushroom chocolates and thats about it
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Goddamn do you think they have enough questions in these loving test pools? I wanted to see each one at least once before starting on the next pool, but there are just so many in it. Edit: also synirc's ssl cert is invalid so I can't rejoin the channel.
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SperginMcBadposter posted:Goddamn do you think they have enough questions in these loving test pools? I wanted to see each one at least once before starting on the next pool, but there are just so many in it. there's really not. that's a pretty small question pool, they are all literal, and exact and from the real tests as given.
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