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Everything posted by Northcutt114
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This is an accurate assessment of the situation. Can confirm.
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More and more, every day!
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You know, for someone who is "too good to help people [and] just want[s] to complain about them not knowing anything but, don't [sic] want to help, just start crap," you're remarkably helpful. I was only familiar with the latter part of the definition, the "carrier squeltch" side of it. Today, I have learned a thing.
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Gotcha. So the same with CB. You know, all you radio dorks are about to have another member in the fold. I've been talking on CBs for almost 30 years and I never gave it a single thought. They were just channel numbers, not frequencies. Then awhile back I got the President CB in my Jeep and started noticing mHz numbers below the channel numbers. That got me thinking and then I started digging into HAM and GMRS and slowly began realizing why 4 watts was the limit on CB band because HAM techs were in that band on HF and talking across the country. So essentially the Kilowatt Klub on CB is bypassing the FCC in the same way the Pistol Brace Bois are bypassing the ATF and NFA. And then I realized that I really don't have enough contempt for federal regulation. But I digress...
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I would have liked this post but apparently "I can not give any more reactions today." As to your advice. I plan to. Reference my avatar.
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Yeah, looks like it's almost in Wando. That's certainly in the "Charleston area" but it's not going to help the Holy City Proper.
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I'm familiar with the button and it is on my radio. It removes tones, too? I thought squelch and tones were different?
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Interesting. I feel as if I have a real radio. It was sitting on the dash of my real Jeep. Attached to a real Bulletpoint Mounting Solutions Rubigrid tray. As I was driving down what I very much perceived to be a real highway. Your suggestion, then, is that I imagined the whole thing? Because I can't, for the life of me, imagine what else you would be implying.
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OK, so...new guy with egg on his face, again. I guess I didn't realize that "Channel 20" occupied the same frequency as some local repeaters. You are indeed correct. I was picking up chattering from a repeater in the city but the tones were wrong. So there's that mystery solved. But leads me to another one. What about people who want to use simplex on Channel 20? I understand offsets and working repeaters. I guess I've just never thought about simplex on the same frequency. And FRS for that matter. Say you're in range of a repeater and you and your friend key up radio to radio, what happens to the TX from the repeater?
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He did say off road.
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It's funny you mention this. Just today I was driving around metro Atlanta running some errands. I had my CB on 19 and my GMRS on Channel 20 with the tone set at 141.3. For a solid 5 minutes, I was getting RX transmissions but I couldn't hear anything. It would light up green, go dark, then light up again and repeat. Over and over. It makes me wonder what was happening? I reckon someone was transmitting on 20 but with different tones? If so, who or what and at 70 mph, I was covering a lot of ground in 5 minutes for simplex to still be working. I didn't have the ability in traffic at speed to take the tones off to see if I could hear them.
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Interesting. What timing?
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I literally clicked on both link and looked at them. That's how I knew what they looked like. You asked, acontextually, which one was best. You gave no context. And then you started insulting the people and software they are running who are trying to help you.
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To what do you have the antenna mounted?
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As a relatively new member, my experience with @SteveShannon couldn't be more opposite.
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I think he was asking @SDJeffrey whose name also happens to be Steve.
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He was responding to me, not you. And he was very helpful. If you're getting an SWR 4.6, something is definitely awry. What kind of antenna are you running on the Tram base?
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I appreciate the info. I am up to speed on bands. I didn't notice that the Nagoya was tri-band. So aluminum is better for tri-band than brass? Why would that be?
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I guess? Like I said, I'm new to this. Why would one have brass and one have steel?
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I kid you not, I bought one of those little pond fishing, plastic, trolling motor boat thingies about two years ago. Store it in the side yard up against the house. Earlier this month my wife goes "Why is there a boat propped against the side of the house?"
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As he ^ said, "best" is subjective. To my eye, as someone who is relatively new to the hobby, they look largely the same. If it were me, I'd go with the Nagoya. I know the name and something about the yellow steel on the Tram says "cheap" to me. Completely subjective and unscientific. Kind of like the original question.
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The guy who got me into GMRS did the same thing. Ed Fong J pole attached to a twenty foot section of steel pipe, used pipe clamps and masonry screws to put it in the brick. I didn't ask what his wife said.
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I imagine it's some form of VOIP software. I'm not savvy enough to venture anymore of a guess than that.
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Enlighten me?
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Apparently the Ocala repeater is "down for maintenance" these days.