SteveShannon

You’re in it. This is exactly the forum to ask support questions.

Move to Arizona

I was 32 with a 6 year old daughter, 4 year old daughter, and an extremely supportive wife. It truly was a wonderful experience, but it was a challenge too.

For an engineering degree at my alma mater, sitting for the EIT exam (Engineer in Training) which is now called the FE, for Fundamentals of Engineering, has been required for decades. The P.E. Exam cannot be taken until a person has four or five years of experience working (typically under the supervision of a P.E.) beyond a degree and requires written letters of recommendation from other P.E.s. The process is intended to ensure actual competence and is pretty good for that. I was fortunate in that my alma mater is heavily staffed with working engineers who actually know their fields hands-on rather than academic theory. I was even more fortunate that I didn’t go to engineering school right out of high school. I was 32 when I went back to school.

I agree. As long as the repeater isn’t operating while the vehicle is traveling, it might be just fine. Basically that’s what is necessary for temporary repeaters for emergency situations.

By definition, repeaters in the personal radio services (part 95) are stations in a fixed location. I don’t know if that means it may not be moved from one location to another between operations: Repeater station. A station in a fixed location used to extend the communications range of mobile stations, hand-held portable units and control stations by receiving their signals on one channel (the input channel) and simultaneously retransmitting these signals on another channel (the output channel), typically with higher transmitting power from a favorable antenna location (typically high above the surrounding terrain).

I’m not from Nebraska but welcome to the forum.

I use a Radioddity DB20G that was on sale for under $90 recently. I bought 2 of them. They are mobile 20 watt units that are small enough to fit in a jacket pocket easily. The same radio is also sold as an Anytone. Configuration software is free and pretty easy to use. I unlocked one of the radios, which allows it to be used as a dual band ham radio for 2 meter and 70 centimeter. They might not be the best, but for my needs they’re good enough.

What kind of help do you need?

I’m still wondering what you plan to mitigate on GMRS with a 100 watt transmitter.

I doubt it’s anything to do with your power cable. I wouldn’t even change it. Since the mag mount made no difference I don’t think it is your ground plane. Maybe the problem is the other end. Are both radios set for either wide or narrow band? They should match. Finally, I would try talking to a different radio. If the static persists then you have ruled out the other radio.

Welcome, fellow Montanan.

You are probably not wrong in your assumption. Your process of scanning is probably correct, but as Gortex2 pointed out the repeater might be sending its ID without any tones. That’s sometimes how repeaters are programmed in order to avoid breaking squelch for any receivers. Your explanation made sense. Record the Morse Code ID and see if you can understand it, or upload the recording here in case someone here can help you understand it.

I reported your post, not to get you in trouble, but because it does seem as though he sees and acts on reported posts.

I thought it was only available with a 4 cylinder.

Wasn’t it the Chevy Vega that required the engine removed to replace the right rear plug?

I couldn’t agree more.

I was one of their first hires in 1991 and unfortunately they went toes up in ‘92. Like most startups it ran out of money before it could get to production. It was a great job, my first right after graduating, and I learned a lot about every aspect of both electronics and mechanical design of that particular total station.

No, we were working for a startup company trying to come to market with an infrared laser surveying total station. He could do the digital or analog design like few people I’ve seen before or since.

One of the very best chief engineers I ever worked under had no college degree and no P.E. He had been trained in communications by the US Navy, and he had the knack.

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SA is “spectrum analyzer”

This chart shows most things: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-allochrt.pdf Here’s an enlargement of one portion:

What does it demodulate then?

I always wondered how hailing frequencies are set such that alien civilizations, whom we have never before encountered, know to monitor. Oh, well, for now, if I’m traveling I’ll just listen to channels 19 and 20 simplex, no tones.