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My school was near the ARRL HQ and I got to swing by and work W1AW a bunch. For the uninitiated: it's the HQ of ham radio in the USA and any time a manufacturer comes out with a new lolcrazy high end model they get sent one so you can just pop in show your license card and get to play with $10,000 toys that have every knob ever on the front.
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Just remembered I strapped a copper J-pole to the chimney of the house I lived in at college. Wonder if it's still there. If it is I sure as gently caress will climb on the roof of that house and get it.
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Mar 10, 2014 03:17
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so my new life goal is to have a place like out of cabinporn.com and have the only connection to the outside world be via ham radio. Maybe put a sunshine powered repeater up on a hillside somewhere if the winlink VHF doesn't reach far enough
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Mar 11, 2014 03:16
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have an alarm clock set for when the weather sat passes over timber fashioned from trees taken from the property so the wood can hang out with its buddies
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Mar 11, 2014 03:24
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oh poo poo wood fired hot tubs and sat trackers and 
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Mar 11, 2014 03:41
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PuTTY riot posted:i hope hipsters don't get into ham radio i'm surprised they haven't the most analog form of communication found this vintage HF set at a thrift store bespoke hand crafted antennas from found objects
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Mar 11, 2014 04:55
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also noaa recently upgraded their noaaport to dvb-s2 so you can throw up that C-Band antenna and get a solid 3+ mbits of nonstop weather data all day erry day
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Mar 11, 2014 05:02
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my roommate in college once did an eme bounce on something stupid like 3 watts. shits crazy
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Mar 12, 2014 02:25
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has someone in the ham radio world built what would best be described as usenet (the messaging not the  ) via mesh networking? I know there's some DSTAR apps but aside from that i'm not aware of things that work without an internet backhaul.
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Mar 17, 2014 15:55
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Wasn't APCO 25 crypto broken years ago anyways?
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Apr 4, 2014 02:45
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On the exact other side of the radio spectrum, I look forward to see whether or not the earl actually works. VHF+UHF+SDR+flexible e-ink+solar+gps box that runs the android. I'm afraid they're biting off a bit more than they can chew but if they pull it off it'd be pretty much the dream outdoors computing solution.
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Apr 11, 2014 04:38
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Bloody posted:use an antenna range RF testing rooms are rad as hell and being told to leave your phone outside or you'll break things is some fun poo poo
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Jul 22, 2014 15:05
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ugh I used to have an FT-857D and I sold it because money for college and now i'm feeling so much nostalgia/regret
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Aug 30, 2014 17:54
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also just found out about Barry Electronics in NYC exists so guess what I'm doing next week
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Aug 30, 2014 17:59
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Are people using DMR for more things beside just digital voice? D-STAR seemed cool from the data transfer abilities but right now I'm not seeing things like that with the MOTOTRBO nets people are setting up
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Sep 6, 2014 16:40
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Korean Boomhauer posted:this dmr thing sounds really really cool. is there any other primers on it i still feel uneducated about it. pretty much all of the above should cover it. The annoying part is that although the voice part is a standard, there's a lot of vendor-proprietary features right now. The systems are designed primarily for commercial use so the ham things are really bleeding-edge. Also Motorola makes really nice radios but you need software that's really expensive to actually program them and it's pretty much impossible to change things without tethering it to a computer.
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Sep 17, 2014 04:43
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You can see the formations of having a really cool broad implementation of a digital ham net with repeaters/igates that let you grab your radio and bounce voice/data off your local system several years down the line, but until then there's swamp of expensive radios, incompatible standards and half-baked software to wade through.
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Sep 17, 2014 04:48
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I still regret selling my FT-857D to get gear for my CCNA because the Yaesu's pretty much doubled in price while the Cisco gear is pretty much scrap
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Apr 16, 2015 03:16
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On the flip side, my buddy is coming up mid-June and we'll be hiking out into the woods and contesting on VHF, which means I get to build a swanky battery pack with solar. Current idea is to get a ~250 watt-hour lithium-iron pack whipped up; biggest concern right now is if the cheap PWM charge controller is going to throw off tons of RF noise
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Apr 16, 2015 04:37
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Finally got around to picking up a handheld. I splurged and grabbed a TH-D72 because hooray TNCs, now to start attempting to decipher the manual
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Jun 27, 2015 03:23
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Sniep posted:this thing is dank those things are great when your train is late. also people on the platforms think you're a cop because all they know are squelch tones.
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Oct 10, 2015 17:47
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http://hackaday.com/2016/01/19/shmoocon-2016-reverse-engineering-cheap-chinese-radio-firmware/ Probably going to pick up one of these since the new radios from Connect Systems are taking forever to get out the door. DMR's looking super rad
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Jan 20, 2016 01:49
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so I'm finally going to start studying for my general. how feasible would HF out of an apartment in NYC (that will likely involve me clamping an antenna to the fire escape)? Also, nobody has yet activated the Statue of Liberty and Tenement Museum on NPOTA so I guess it's up to me to do the needful.
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HOPE update: I managed to successfully test for my General. I look forward to /AG-ing for the next few weeks. There were 2M and 70CM simplex frequencies posted for the conference(?), along with the 70CM repeater they had set up. A couple of guys were roaming around with P25 radios (which were optioned-out, including AES modules) to go along with the P25 repeater (a tactical briefcase unit from Motorola, with a head unit that had siren controls as well) which was bridged into the FM setup. Pro Tip: instead of spending $11,000 optioned-out HT directly from motorola, get all the radio parts individually and only spend $5K on it, then flash it with the firmware.
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Jul 25, 2016 03:49
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Storysmith posted:this is the part they make super hard to do without their permission though, unless I missed something and moto's flashing software got cracked and into circulation caveat: I know nothing as to the veracity of this per the guys walking around: "yeah you just need a CPS and compared to the cost of the radio that's nothing" Jimmy Carter fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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so my friend recently switched everything over to SDR rigs and tossed me some of his old gear what's the best route to go down for an antenna tuner? Next HamFest that isn't out in NJ isn't until October, and the only thing I have at the moment is a 10/6/2M magmount whip that's on the fire escape
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Sep 4, 2016 04:26
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I'm at the UHF I'm at the Android Phone I'm at the combination UHF and Android Phone 
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grab yourself an ARRL study guide (I got mine for free because I tagged along with my friend when we went to visit W1AW) and find when your local ham radio club is offering testing next. I'd consider getting both your technician and general at the same time - tech is harder for a lot of people than general so the added difficulty isn't that much, plus you can immediately start doing cool kid HF stuff like messing with large antennas, whereas with tech can be kind of limiting (hope you like talking to graybeards on your local repeaters about Obama).
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