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Hi ham Goons. I've been interested in amateur radio for number of years (my uncle has a fancy-pants rig in southern Missouri), and this thread convinced me to look into reviving this interest. As my first radio/training wheels for the Tech test, I was thinking of buying this Baofeng radio (https://www.amazon.com/BaoFeng-BF-F8HP-Two-Way-136-174MHz-400-520MHz/dp/B00MAULSOK/). Any thoughts or issues known about this system?
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Thanks y'all for all your advice! That last YouTube video was really convincing wrt how bad BaoFang "radios" are.
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Jul 9, 2017 23:44
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I took and passed my Technician license today! I almost passed the General too, but that's ok. I may go impuse buy a Yaesu tonight if I can find one in a brick and mortar store. Also the local radio club apparently gives out free Baofengs to newbies at their first meeting? That's pretty rad. This hobby is gonna be awesome!
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Aug 26, 2017 21:42
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Halah posted:Is that the one that has/used to have an online stream? I seem to remember listening to an LA repeater a few years back wondering how they got away with all the poo poo they were pulling. Like many of the links in the older posts in this thread, this one is dead. Google found the new streaming site for the LA 435 repeater, and mother of god these people are loving insane. I just listened to a ten minute convo about how bad cat poo poo smells.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:02
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SoundMonkey posted:anyone got enough arthritis and ailments to make a new OP? Could we call it "Amateur Radio: No Hobby For Young Men?"
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Progressive JPEG posted:
Ugh, that's loving gross. I got my Yaesu in the mail yesterday and I got to check out the local club's net. I can already tell I won't be happy for long being stuck in the 2m/70cm bands, so I better get going on studying for the General! Also seriously maybe we should start a new thread, the OP is almost a decade old.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:47
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Vir posted:Indeed. QRO contesting, satellites, EME and meteor scatter is the name of the game. Personally I'm still rocking an FT-817 for portable QRP operation. I concur. Talking on repeaters in the Colorado/Wyoming hinterlands holds little appeal for me, but I DESPERATELY want to build a directional RX/TX antenna with computerized tracking capability from scratch so I can link to satellites as they pass over my house.
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Sep 12, 2017 05:26
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Greetings hamgoons! I passed my General exam on December 1, so now I can play with the big kids on HF and get away from this repeater-hogging smoothbrains. I may build a small 80/40m rig to tide me over until I save up to build my shack and buy something proper. I have my eyes set on a Yaesu FT-991A, it looks baller.
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Jan 10, 2018 04:22
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Qu Appelle posted:Passed my General Gratz on that ticket friend!
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Jan 29, 2018 03:06
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wolrah posted:on a shittier version of the internet. Sounds like an internet where the Eternal September never happened.
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Feb 28, 2018 00:35
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fordan posted:I think my favorite experience with this was when I was operating a special event station for Skywarn Appreciation Day at the local NWS office, and someone asked me my call (vs the event's), if I was an Extra, and proceeded to attempt to quiz me on the contents of the exam and went on a tirade against "paper Extras." No matter the activity, there will always be people who rave about others
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Mar 24, 2018 20:18
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Progressive JPEG posted:Are there any HTs with a UI that's intended for use by humans? I have an FT-60 and I gotta read the manual each time I use it. Gut gud
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May 7, 2018 04:09
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Hi radio goons. I'm planning my first radio shack, as I'm moving to a new house with a great layout for one, and I'm trying to decide what I want. Currently I'm leaning towards a Yaesu FT-991A as my first shack rig, as it should allow me to do a wide variety of things with one unit for a reasonable price. Any pros or cons to this approach?
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May 14, 2018 22:07
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blugu64 posted:Been absent from the ham radio hobby for a few years. Do I want a DMR or DStar digital radio? I’ve got two clubs local, and one has DStar repeaters and the other DMR repeaters. I'm pretty sure it's the repeater itself being connected to the reflector. AFAIK you can't generate any "private" links to repeaters and the like.
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May 17, 2018 22:34
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blugu64 posted:Sounds like the old irlp setups then. That’s too bad, I’d take advantage of that if DStar supported it. Don’t really care about the privacy so much as being courteous about the traffic. I really wouldn't worry about it, most repeaters are dead most of the time, so grab yourself a chunk of time when the repeater is quiet and go hog wild.
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May 17, 2018 22:57
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Sniep posted:Oh, sorry -- that's pretty much it though. Hi there fellow Front Range hamgoon. Longmont resident here. I've been off the 2m/70cm bands since this repeater troll has popped up in the area, do you know if they got that guy stomped out yet?
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May 18, 2018 16:13
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Jonny 290 posted:Haha, we get them now and then but this one sounds thirsty. Details? Well I tuned into the Longmont ARC Thursday and the guy would either make these "waka waka waka waka" noises or play songs using the keypad on his radio. He's apparently in the know enough to track down multiple different nets and destroy them. Like who has the time to do that?
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May 19, 2018 00:56
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Michael Jackson posted:I managed to contact people with an yaesu vx-1 today, i am finally a radio talker! >Googles "Yaesu VX-1" drat that's a tiny radio!
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May 25, 2018 19:58
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soy posted:I always have vx6r in my bag modded to tx any freq. even at full price it’s a drat good radio. Got any deets on this mod?
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May 26, 2018 18:12
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uli2000 posted:The Alinco DJ-C5T would disagree. About the size of a stack of 8 or so credit cards. With such features as 300mw output and mosquito repeller listed as a feature! Oh neat! I may try to find a used one somewhere.
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Jun 2, 2018 03:43
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The Extra is one of the most intimidating tests I've seen in years. I think it's way harder than the GRE.
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Sep 15, 2018 02:57
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Just FYI the longer bands are on fire tonight, a ton of people are participating in a CQ DX event. You can listen in on https://www.websdr.org if you don't have an HF rig of your own.
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Oct 29, 2018 02:28
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To be able to listen to local stuff online, someone physically near you needs to set up an antenna to receive signals, then pipe them through their receiver into the internet and tell webSDR about it so they can post the link.
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Dec 16, 2018 20:08
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But but but that FT-991A is so hot!
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Dec 19, 2018 19:05
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Qu Appelle posted:Found how to submit my name change to the FCC, submitted it wrong, got it rejected, got an actual paper filled with Governmentese that basically said U S A U S A U S A
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Dec 25, 2018 04:32
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, called the FCC, resubmitted my license change the correct way...and the Government shuts down. 
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I recently moved from Longmont, CO, and I would routinely hit the 310 repeater sitting in my kitchen with my Yaesu HT. That fucker was always popping.
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Michael Jackson posted:
What is happening here?
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Big Mackson posted:
What band and where are you to be getting all those hamwaves coming at ya?
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Mar 21, 2019 21:10
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Big Mackson posted:It owns that one can see the invisible world and gain dark and forbidden knowledg- whops wrong thread You're not. Go on...
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mashed_penguin posted:Only g-string a ham is likely to get. Prostitutes are much less expensive than radios.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:08
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Partycat posted:I should send two low resolution melons over SSTV. SSTV is fascinating but I don't know if I could resist the temptation to build a pirate radio rig to blast  at 6.995 for 10 minutes at a time on random Saturday nights
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Jun 12, 2019 02:23
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Buh, but why would you install all of that without a ticket?
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Aug 17, 2019 23:43
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Pimblor posted:The whole thing seems fishy. Meh. If they're correct and that massive block of IP addys are largely unused, then sure sell them to AWS who cares. It doesn't seem that they're pocketing the money but rather using the funds to run a non-profit and to set up scholarships and grants for amateurs. Sounds on the level to me.
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Jonny 290 posted:I should just run a rotating savings account to buy new icom rigs What am I even looking at here?
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Aug 31, 2019 02:38
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Hm, so it's probably gonna cost about the same as a Yaesu FT-991A with 1/10th the wattage output?
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Jonny 290 posted:lots of fun though if you're into staring at a screen and sipping coffee and cranking out massive amounts of RF at 4 in the morning Do...do some people NOT think that's fun?
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manero posted:Oh man, I've never wanted a 3d printer really but printing custom enclosures for projects & baluns, and various antenna wire insulators might be my killer app for it. Oh poo poo fuckin' same
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Tonight’s lesson in RF: Antennas are really complex but also they aren’t? Do you have a before disassembly picture for us?
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Sep 30, 2019 04:48
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Getting a western geostat would be pretty baller, that's true. I doubt you'll see a bunch of cranky old ragchewers suddenly see the light about their poo poo politics though, their ideas are left-behind bullshit and they'll cling to them until their grave. The two ways to fix amateur repeater culture is 1) time, or 2) a real good flu season.
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Here's a question that I can't seem to get answered: wtf is up with burying wires at the base of an antenna? Like, what, the theoretical and practical reasons for doing this? I cant seem to find a straight forward answer.
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