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  1. SteveShannon
    What do the specs say?
  2. SteveShannon
    Amateur radio licenses and HF radios on 40 meters with a wire antenna is your best option. I use it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning to very reliably chat with folks from Canada to western Washington, distances up to 450 miles.
  3. SteveShannon
    My friends were using it on the rocket range.
  4. SteveShannon
    Not anything obvious. You’ve ruled out everything except the receiver on the xs20g.
  5. SteveShannon
    Here’s a video where a guy diagnoses and then replaces the USB chip.
  6. SteveShannon
    Probably not general electronics, but someone who fixes phones and tablets. Surface mount requires some specialized tools and lots of practice.
  7. SteveShannon
    Welcome to the forums. Without telling us what radio you’re using and what software you’re using it’s impossible to say.
  8. SteveShannon
    He might be able to download it from the vendor. That’s what I rely on. Is it the USB B port for CAT control or one of the USB A ports for keyboard and mouse? I love my dx10 and I use Ham Radio Deluxe, which I connect using the USB B port. I don’t know what it would take to replace the port. It’s undoubtedly SMT. Have you considered doing it yourself?
  9. SteveShannon
    I assume that you don’t have the receipt because you bought it from a private seller. Can you get the receipt from the original owner?
  10. SteveShannon
    That makes my day!
  11. SteveShannon
    I can’t wait to see one AI arguing with another about Roger beeps!!
  12. SteveShannon
    I got a promotion!! Woo hoo!
  13. SteveShannon
    Obviously, I had no such compunction. Maybe there should be a forum called “Ask Randy” where his favorite viewers can ask his AI alter ego questions. @OffRoaderX, what do you think? Should we ask Rich @rdunajewski for an “Ask Randy” forum?
  14. SteveShannon
    The Garmin Rhino series GMRS radios have had it for many years, as well as very well done mapping and location exchange. It works well. I use that, but I’ve not used the GMRS pro.
  15. SteveShannon
    If you want the ads to go away when you’re looking at the forums you have to pay to become a premium member of mygmrs.com.
  16. SteveShannon
    That concept of “additional tools” is why our club is discussing putting up a commercial repeater at the same site of our Amateur repeater so that in an disaster we could hand out commercial radios to specific unlicensed people.
  17. SteveShannon
    I’m not Randy, but it’s a well known problem and the subject of several threads on these forums. The best thing to do is send them back to the vendor and get replacements that work, but there is a firmware upgrade that is reported to fix it. Just search for “channel 15”. Welcome to the forum! Here’s one of them:
  18. SteveShannon
    Thanks! I see it there under the operations tab.
  19. SteveShannon
    I’ve seen that before also but when challenged I was unable to find it again. Would you post the link?
  20. SteveShannon
    Of course, and the people that do them deserve credit, but those are not technical challenges that I have overcome, so making a QSO using a linked repeater is very little more challenging than dialing the phone. I celebrate other’s accomplishments, but with ham radio I derive satisfaction from my own accomplishments in overcoming technical challenges.
  21. SteveShannon
    The tones don’t prevent interference. They just prevent audio reproduction. The signal must be received before the tone has an effect. So, two transmitters on the same frequency can interfere with each other, even if they have different tones, as long as a receiver receives them.
  22. SteveShannon
    You might as well have.
  23. SteveShannon
    I think networked repeaters have their place, but I agree with you for the most part. I want at least a few unlinked repeaters so I can contact people who use the same repeater. I don’t understand hams making QSOs on networked repeaters. I do understand enjoying the challenge of “conquering the airwaves” to make distant contacts, not for the joy of talking to strangers (nothing wrong with that, just not my thing), but for the technical challenge it represents.
  24. SteveShannon
    Dealer mode for some devices that I’ve seen places the device into a repetitive demonstration routine designed to highlight its features. I wouldn’t be afraid of putting it into dealer mode, but I would back it up first.
  25. SteveShannon
    Are you getting into the repeater when you don’t program the tones? What frequency are you transmitting on to the repeater? What frequency are you receiving on from the repeater?
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