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The signal stick is great. But you might end up overloading the poor ‘feng’s receiver with a good antenna.
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thehustler posted:60 mins of morse with copen on Vail has done more for my CW skills in that hour than I thought possible. Thanks, cruft. Only 3 Q’s on 20 but it was nice to get out. 90F today and I think my PX3 overheated, but it was a blast!
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Aw man. I hope you can get it fixed, I’d hate if my F6 bit the dust.
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thehustler posted:Do I need an 878, or is an 868 just fine for like 99% of use cases? I personally dig APRS, but I don't know how good the implementation is on the 878. I also don't have any experience with the Anytone radios, or DMR in general really. It might be worth it just to have the flexibility down the road if you decide to get into APRS though. E: According to this thread, it's TX-only at fixed intervals, and doesn't receive/decode APRS packets, which IMO is just as useful. So maybe not worth the extra cost. manero fucked around with this message at 15:05 on May 30, 2021 |
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I reassembled my homebrew buddipole I built back in 2012 and used it for a bit this past weekend while my wire antenna is down for some house repairs. At 16' it was basically NVIS for 20m, but I did manage to work K2M and K2D on CW, so I guess it works! The pole can extend up to 24', so maybe next time I will try a bit higher.... but my 30' fiberglass mast and an end-fed wire is way easier to deploy and probably way more efficient. 
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Yeah, I've gotten way more mileage out of my EARCHI random-length endfed, which is basically a 9:1 balun and like 30 feet of wire, plus a counterpoise. So much easier to get up on the air with, at least for portable. My home station is just an 80m doublet fed with 300-ohm ladderline to an ATU, and it works pretty well.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Anyone know anything about POCSAG? Cool! I managed to dig up the manual here: https://usermanual.wiki/Ototronix/EM-898B-1995250.pdf Maybe the manufacturer will send you a .zip file if you ask nicely? IDK
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I'd be curious to see if you get any sort of command prompt if you connect to it with a serial terminal app.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Saw this coming out from Xeigu which seems like a cheaper version of icom's 705 (excepting the 705's support of VHF and UHF) which includes a tuner as well. Has anyone seen any reviews on this yet? That thing looks rad. I think K4SWL (the qrper.com/swling post guy) basically gave a "do not recommend" for the GSOC thing Xeigu made, hopefully they can work out whatever issues they had with it. Laughing at Elecraft getting lapped on a theoretical KX4.
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:Anyone know how to order parts from ICOM in America? Or a distributor? Your best bet is probably to contact icom support and see how much they want for a bottom case.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I know this isnt strictly the thread for this, but what is the state of CB radio in 2022? I'm about to buy a Honda Goldwing from the early 2000's, which comes with a built in CB radio that it will pipe right into your helmet. That seems like a cool option to have, but have truckers and other highway traffic moved on to some form of digital CB, or do they use some sort of internet connected thing now? Or is it still just plain old analog CB out there? I think the FCC just approved FM on CB. Otherwise it's probably mostly AM and SSB still.
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Big Mackson posted:2 days from tokyo to norway for my ic-7300, slower from south norway to north norway lol. I had a PTRX when I owned a 7300, it was great. It was super easy to install (and remove), as well - I think you'll spend more time with the screws for the case, than it takes to install. I had it paired with an RSP1A, and it worked perfectly - I had the VFO synced with it using omnirig.
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Big Mackson posted:Awesome, maybe my "touch of death" as my brother has dubbed it wont affect the ic-7300 while installing. It's easy, just follow the directions. I'm pretty sure you can find videos on YT of people performing the installation.
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:Maybe 1.5 years ago in this thread I had an idea for an ic7300 mod I could maybe sell. Oh hey, I remember this. Great job! I feel you on the "turning it into a thing someone can use" thing. At the risk of doxing myself, I wrote a web-based remote control app for an HF radio during Covid, and turned it into a full-fledged open source project. Releasing it and announcing it was terrifying. I even went so far to make Windows binaries for all the hams running Windows, so they wouldn't have to install any dev tools to compile it or anything. It's been all of those things - difficult, time consuming, but maybe not discouraging -- although I've found my motivation came and went over the last couple of years. I have had a fair number of people using the app, and some nice hams even sent me some cash over the holidays, but it definitely didn't pay for the 100's or 1000's of hours I put into it over the years. Having a roadmap helped out, and it was also nice having some active users testing the app out and sending bug reports and feature requests.
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:Thanks for the positive feedback. One thing I struggled with at the start, was whether to make it a commercial product, or to open source it. I probably could have made some good money selling copies of the software, but I decided I didn’t want to turn my hobby into a job. Be aware of that angle. Coincidentally enough, I have 18 open GitHub issues as well, and I’ve justly accepted that I’ll never get to some or just not even bother. “Good enough” definitely helps in this situation. Sure, it would be cool to be able to use a browser’s audio API to stream mic audio to the radio, but in reality, I’ll probably never get to it, and it’s totally fine.
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:I am interested in the technical aspects you've got going on there! but I understand re: doxx The radio sends RTP packets that contain raw PCM samples, so it was pretty easy to pick the payload out of the packets and send them to the browser over a websocket. But that was after lots and lots of reverse engineering to figure out what the sample rate was. The latency isn't too much of a problem, but it adds up when you use the app across the internet. At home on a LAN connection, the audio matches up fairly closely.
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I vouch for Crossbar being a POTA monster
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Heck yeah, congrats! Now you don't have to worry about those pesky General class band limits
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:Does moisture wick through coax cable shields? Kinda sucks, but I think I have a 25 and 50 foot cables that are gonna be a loss. 100% absolutely, yes. Consider that coax toast
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Safety Dance posted:The norwegian words might be "en unnskyldning for å kjøpe en fresemaskin". You need to pass General first, but you can totally sit for both tests. Not sure if they grade your General first, before letting you take the Extra, though, I'd imagine that's how it works. The Extra test is a bit more challenging, more material (50 questions, I think), but it's entirely possible to do both in one go.
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Supersonic posted:I've heard good things about its receiver, but the ergonomics make me a little nervous. There's currently a sale on at DX Engineering, and Icom also offers a mail-in rebate which puts the price comparable to the FT-710 AESS so I might jump on that in a few weeks. There might be some sales around Hamvention in mid-May as well. Any Goons going to Xenia?
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