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Did you try replacing the GFCI outlet? They do go bad.
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Kentucky Touch Screen Repeatedly Won’t Allow Voter To Select Trump – Election Officials Deny Malfunction — Then 4 Hours Later Admit Issue With Ballot Marking Device The debunking has been debunked. And even if it couldn't be reproduced you can see it on the video. At no time did he touch any other pad. So how did the one below get activated?
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Whoever might that be?
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I've always read it as access request are disabled.
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The best and most practical way to have the power generator follow the AC cycle is to run it through a synchronized inverter. That way whatever you throw at the inverter is aligned perfectly with the grid.
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Ya, I live in and work in faraday cages. My shop is a metal building and my house has aluminum siding. Walking into either and all signals fade. Both house and shop have cell phone boosters so I can have a cell signal. In the shop the signal is better than it is outside. It's not that way at my house.
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I can see the planes. I'm just shocked at how it's limited. The 21 mile repeater is in the direction of the window. The 17 mile repeater is on the opposite side of the building. The other thing I was shocked about is it's AM and not FM. I had to turn the AM option on my radio for those frequencies to show up.
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I've programmed my TD-H3 radio to listen in on the nearby airport. Can be interesting at times. Currently at my house, behind the small hill it's just static. If I put it on my base antenna it's perfect. I can hear the tower and all the airplanes responding. My shop is 1/2 mile from the airport and I'm in a metal building. I keep the radio in the window using a Nagoya 771G antenna and I can hear the tower and some of the planes. Mostly the planes are just hash and not understandable. Is getting an antenna tuned to 120MHz really going to do anything for my reception? It would be in the same place, in the window. I keep it there and I can hear the 3 repeaters I use (7, 17, 21 miles away). I find it very interesting being 1/2 mile away from the airport and not able to hear the airplanes where I can hear them at my house which is another 2 miles away.
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LI East End repeater in NY on 575 announces by voice on the 35 after and on the hour it sometimes gives weather. It's a pay to play repeater and I only hear it when the tropospheric ducting is just right. But I hear it often enough to know it does voice and CW for ID.
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My 5 watt HT transmitting on 467MHz will turn on my wife's headlamp she uses to walk the dog at night. It has turned on my stove, thankfully it is a 2 step process to activate any burner. My 25 watt mobile radio on 467MHz will activate my neighbors motion detector light. In my shop, again at 467MHz it will activate my Fein Dust Extractor which has a tool activated port. None of this happens on 462MHz. My buddy has a Kenwood HT and when he's transmitting near his garage flat screen it freezes the picture. When he unkeys it resumes.
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Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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It's the only circus we have.
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There's a few people on here that think because they can get many fars that everyone should be able to do the same
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They say you can program by USB-c. I haven't had any success doing it and I bought the Kenwood plug/adapter. I've had no issues with programming the radio using that setup. There is a USB port on the side along with the Kenwood outlet. The one on the bottom is to charge the battery. I just use the Tidradio CPS to program my H3 radios along with the Odmaster. I've also upgraded to 140625 and now 140702 firmware using their IAP app. The firmware before 140625 had an issue with blanking out repeater signals for about 2 seconds on the 1st part of the receive after unkeying.
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Yer one of those people.....
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I saw it on the internet. It must be true.
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Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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There is no load on the radio. Is there any chance for damage? A high SWR produces power that backfeeds into the radio and that's what hurts the output stage. If there is no antenna there is there the possibility of a backfeed even occurring?
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For the most part height is might. A telescoping antenna pole and a way to keep it upright. You could go as simple as a 6" quarter wave mobile antenna or a higher gain base station antenna. Usually 5 ft tall or so with a gain of more than 6dB. The better coax you can use the more signal to the antenna you can get which would give you more range. Placement of the antenna is the most important aspect of the range you'll get.
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Estimating your GMRS Radio Coverage - Finally
LeoG replied to mbrun's question in Technical Discussion
Thanks. Above my pay grade. Is there more of an instruction manual than an explanation of how all this came to be? -
Estimating your GMRS Radio Coverage - Finally
LeoG replied to mbrun's question in Technical Discussion
Of course I realize all of that. Just trying to get a sense of what others using the app might be putting in there for the other numbers besides their own equipment. Myself I'm surrounded by trees on 3 sides. North of me is treeless in the immediate vicinity and it shows in my real world experience. Now the leaves are falling and the signal is opening up. So it's possible the app might register more accurately than it has been. There is a check box on the app that says use land cover. Checking this box decreases the signal quite a bit. Also would like to know what the "Use 2 Rays" option is since it's checked by default. Also the Strong signal Margin. I've bounced between 14 and 20dB for the most part and the reliability seems to be more accurate the closer you get to 100%. I tried 100% once and the program won't run. So I keep things above 98% most of the time. Just curious. And there's pretty much no way an averaging program could get things spot on. But getting it close would be nice. -
You just got your GMRS license, now you want your own repeater?
LeoG replied to coryb27's topic in General Discussion
One reason to have a repeater is so you can talk using an HT in an area instead of being strapped to a stationary base setup. I have this at my shop. I can keep an HT on me so my wife can get a hold of me whether I'm in the machine area or the finishing area or talking with some of the other businesses in the building area. Sort of wish I could have a double setup so I could have the same setup for my wife where she could go out in the back yard and hit the shop repeater. But I need a 40' antenna setup to make the connection unfortunately. Of course I use it so I can go out in my truck around town and still be in contact with the little woman. -
Estimating your GMRS Radio Coverage - Finally
LeoG replied to mbrun's question in Technical Discussion
So I've been playing with this for some time now and have difficulties in making it match real world conditions. Using GMRS and my current setup I have some very specific spots that I know how they react reception-wise. My house is a dead spot more or less. I have a friends house that I get a good signal at and my Dads house that is extremely weak. By the time I get my house to the weakness it is all the other spots drop off the map and turn white meaning zero reception which is far from reality. Was wondering what parameters some of you are using to get your realistic power/reception levels. It's probably the line of trees I have between my house and my repeater antenna, but I'm still curious as to your parameter setup. Here's my inputs for me talking through the repeater with my truck mobile setup. -
I do 21 miles to a repeater. It's about 1000' higher than me. We have nothing in the state higher than 2450 ft. I was playing with Radio Mobile and put a 50 watt repeater on top (Mt Frissel) with a 100' tower and because of all the other mountains in the general vicinity it had very poor performance for distance. Too many peaks that were close to the same height.