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I'll be at Timonium, but drat the price went up again! Guess it's still worth it since it's the biggest hamfest in the region.
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My next radio will be the Wouxun 2M/220 HT. Looks to be the cheapest way to get the 220 band I've been missing.
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manero posted:Anybody have a recommendation for a decent, but not too expensive dual-band mobile rig? Something I can pop into my Mazda 3 for Skywarn season Wow, you are exactly in the same situation as me! I have a Mazda 3 and I'm looking to get this, http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-010079 Dual band, detachable faceplate and even has Noaa Weather alert. Most stores I've checked sell it with the faceplate kit. Just curious what are you doing for a antenna?
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Any goon hams in Dayton this weekend? I just got here tonight staying for 2 days. Have never been before, already see some hamsexy and I'm just at the hotel! Can't wait for tomorrow, hopefully I don't spend too much.
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Jose Pointero posted:I'm jelly, would like to go one of these days. Take some pics please, not particularly of the gear being presented but of the attendees Sorry I didn't see this sooner, most of my pictures are of gear of course. I will say there was a least a 30 to 1 scooter ratio. Antenna hats were frequent, BO was frequent, at least a dozen "I hate Obama" conversations overheard. Honestly outside the antenna hats what one would expect at a old white person crowd. I walked for 8 hours straight to see everything. I bought too much and spent too much money. Met some old radio pals I hadn't seen in years and overall bought some cool stuff so I'll do it again next year. Worth the road trip and time.
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BigHustle posted:I started listening to the LA Amateur Radio Repeater formerly known as W9NUT again and it makes me want to fire a repeater up locally just to watch the old heads poo poo their Hoverounds. I envy LA for having some entertaiment, such as it is, on 2M. Half the time my radio is scanning the local repeaters with no activity, when it does stop it's for conversations like this thread's title. Only time things get interesting is bad weather with skywarn.
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Jose Pointero posted:Wait, what? I've heard a lot of graybeard stories about the early days of VHF/UHF but never any mention of this. There's a little bit of this about 23cm and 33cm bands now in populated areas, though not to the extreme where ham stores(few as there are) won't sell you equipment. I mostly see grumpy old men on Yahoo Groups anger posting when a capable radio comes out. Dem commoners are going to ruin our band!
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phorge posted:Don't order from DealExtreme... they are shipping a different SKU now that doesn't have the right chipset in it. poo poo, seriously !? I ordered one a few weeks ago, hopefully I didn't waste $20 
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Llyr posted:I was hoping that getting my CB radio working would be easier than my ham. I was messing around with an old Realistic brand handheld CB and I was picking up faint chatter from southern truckers(I live in Canada). The chatter was very distorted and bleeding across multiple channels. I was hoping that with my new CB and antenna that I would be able to pick up a clearer signal. If you ham elitists want to thumb your noses at CB then I could use some help finding a good antenna set-up for my Drake SPR-4 Receiver. Last year I tried to get a random wire antenna working but I gave up. Was it channel 6? Those clowns bleed over a channel or two here during the day with their horrible illegal amps. Sadly some amateur frequencies are like that too ...
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soy posted:I made one of the local repeaters go bleep boop hello good morning, this hobby is cool and good. So you're the kerchunker! 
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Sniep posted:You could always be like me and just "Eh, gently caress It" yourself a FTDX1200 Are you me? At my townhouse I can only do a 50ft dipole at around 15ft in the air. Works well on 6-15m though, but only okay on 17-20m. Still love my 1200 though, it replaced my 706MIIG. I never found much SSB activity on 2M/400 here except for contests so the HF upgrade was worth it.
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eddiewalker posted:How else do you deal with the guy who got his PTT wedged between the seats of his truck? Time for a radio club foxhunt!
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Some nearby radio control maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_usage_in_the_United_States#Remote_control
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IndianaZoidberg posted:I don't know if anyone cares around here, but I was out driving around last week and ran across a Frederick, MD amature radio club just hanging out in a parking lot at Walmart. Along with their gear, they had a large antenna trailer they set up and a antenna that they raised up on a helium balloon. Wow small world, I live in Frederick but was out of town for vacation. I read they were setting up shop there for Field Day, glad they caught some attention!
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Seems like someone flipped the light switch on HF today.
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The Muffinlord posted:I live under a bigger rock. What changes did they make last April? https://bettersaferadio.com/fcc-adopts-long-awaited-changes-prs-bands-gmrs-frs-cb-murs/
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Maybe it's just my area but there's no FM repeater nuttiness; that would require repeater activity! I had to go digital for contacts, HF and local.
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US CB is still AM/SSB only, no FM or digital voice modes I believe.
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Partycat posted:I tried to check into a net on America link yesterday but after hours of check ins I gave up . Huge digital nets can be a drag, no fun waiting to speak when you're checkin #39 and the list is only at #7.
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Where I lived DStar and Fusion were the main UHF digital modes, so I have and am familiar with those radios. Since moving DMR repeaters seem to rule, time to learn a new mode and radio! I do use a hotspot to monitor Reddits 98003 using Fusion, can be active late evenings EST.
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Jonny 290 posted:oh man nets where the spouse and maybe a kid check in are SUPER wholesome. families that ham together fight over radios together Is this a local thing? Once in a great while I’ll hear a kid, or pretty sure a grand kid. But never a family. Pretty sweet if it happens. I’ve tried to nudge my wife into just a tech license, not happening. I did get us a GMRS license, so something.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Are we lowly GMRS licensees that just paid $70 and didn't take a test allowed in here? I have questions about protocol. I say why not, I have both a ham and GMRS license. Family isn’t interested in ham, so having GMRS with higher power and repeater access is a plus.
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Of my HTs the Alinco DJ-G29T frustrates me the most. Bought it for the 220/900 bands, but when I do use it I spend more time relearning to use it. It’s like they took the Yaesu menu idea and decided to make it worse with sub menus. I mainly keep it on the local 220 repeater, but have made some 900 contacts when traveling out west.
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Local wires-x repeater is set to America Link by default. It is always transmitting.
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The Washington DC area channel 6/FM 87.7 went off the air for a little while, but came back a few months ago with digital TV and analog audio. The television side is country music videos, the radio side continues with Spanish language pop. The analog FM signal is where the station's value is at sadly.
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Big Mackson posted:What is the TG for this thread? Local repeater finally have DMR 3163563 brandmeister
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