tweiss3
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IronWire reacted to a post in a topic:
Pennsylvania people.. you need to take action now
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Or hoarded by Crown Castle or another monopoly.
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WRHS218 reacted to a post in a topic:
Hilarious ad on facebook
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I agree, but I don't see another way to remain within GMRS, unless you use two antennas and mount them like a dipole and only use 1/2W. I have a trunked P25 P1 "site" in my living room where the CC is 0.05MHz below the VC, RX antennas are pointed up, and TX antennas are left and right away from each other. Works well, but it's only putting out 0.1W. In theory, its a $7+M idea that would likely just become space junk before it is used.
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marcspaz reacted to a post in a topic:
Hilarious ad on facebook
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While correct, I suspect the crowd-funding would be significantly short of the cost to get one up in near earth orbit. I wonder what space dust and the extreme temperatures would do to a "mobile" duplexer though.
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Jaay reacted to a post in a topic:
Hamvention
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Hamvention
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It is just a out the nicest day here.
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tweiss3 reacted to a post in a topic:
Hamvention
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HHD1 reacted to an answer to a question:
Amature bands VS. GMRS Range
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As others have said, ham UHF vs GMRS, you won't notice a difference with HTs. VHF high (2m) will get a bit further under normal conditions. VHF low (6m, 50MHz) gets to the point that an adequate antenna is the issue for HTs. It will act the same as 2m without atmospheric propagation helping, but when propagation is open, there are thousands of stories of talking across the USA on only 5w.
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AdmiralCochrane reacted to a post in a topic:
Just passed my General class test on Saturday!!!!
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FishinGary reacted to a post in a topic:
Just passed my General class test on Saturday!!!!
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Just passed my General class test on Saturday!!!!
tweiss3 replied to WRPL700's topic in Amateur Radio (Ham)
I need to get back to studying for AE. Same as last years study course, life got busy and I'm behind again. -
Heh. My wife doesn't necessarily participate, but finds them useful at times. She didn't really say anything after she saw my last purchase order other than "that's a lot of money" then walked away and didn't mention it again.
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WSEZ468 reacted to an answer to a question:
What coax cable for repeater.
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TerriKennedy reacted to an answer to a question:
What coax cable for repeater.
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You want hardline, like Heliax (Comscope/Andrews) or whatever RFS calls it. At 50', you are looking for 1/2" or 7/8", unless you can find a deal for larger somewhere.
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As mentioned, testing of an HT antenna is nearly impossible to get completely accurate results. It should also be noted that sometimes a "better" antenna will cause the radio to perform worse due to RF saturation. That being said, for the APX, the Motorola antenna will work the best for that radio.
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Other than shortcuts, the keyboard is only useful for DTMF tones, which could be used to control a repeater's features, such as changing the input tone, or disabling the repeater during a malfunction. It's not a huge selling point for many radios.
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Yea, I had 2 XPR3500 that had bad antenna sockets. Was fixed in about 20 minutes with the soldering station.
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It's in the rules. Fixed station. A station at a fixed location that directly communicates with other fixed stations only. Base station. A station at a fixed location that communicates directly with mobile stations and other base stations. 47 CFR 95.303 An example of a fixed station would be an RF link between 2 repeaters. They only talk with each other, at fixed locations.
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I'm a fan of distance contacts on 80m while doing 70 down the highway. I don't really ever have time to sit longer than 15 minutes.
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tweiss3 reacted to a post in a topic:
POTA Question
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Both Alinco and Yaesu are listed as confirmed along with JVC Kenwood, Elecraft and Icom.
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Anything commercial from Harris/Motorola/Kenwood TK-3140 has Part 95 approval and can do multiple zones up to 250 total channels. You likely won't find anything in the cheaper chinese radio market.
