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Other Hobbies and Interests that our NLG members enjoy => Other Hobbies and Interests => Topic started by: Joeylc on March 14, 2014, 07:40:12 AM
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Amateur radio (Ham Radio)
From the NLG Command Center KG7NLG 73's :cool_thumb_up: :cool_thumb_up:
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N6JCQ here. I have a 30 year old Yaesu Ft208r that probably needs charging. It's down in a drawer. But my General Class license is current! :D
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N8GPQ here. I have been a ham for almost 30 years. Most of my operating is in the VHF/UHF bands now. I only live 70 miles from the Dayton Hamvention. Life is good!!
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CQ CQ CQ I was a novice in 64 and got my General in 65 . Still have my Swan 350 Five Band S.S.B. Transceiver.
and a home made antenna tuner. WA0JCT now in Arizona , a former native of Midwest and kept call sign instead of changing over to a 7 call sign.
Chief...
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WB6EGR here...
VHF/UHF repeaters in Las Vegas, California and Hawaii.
HF rig is a Kenwood TS590S and homebrew antennas
Portable/mobile radios are all Motorola Spectra/Syntor/XPR Series
Also into "Snooping" on 10-12Ghz satellite band with multiple dishes and 8 receivers.
Las Vegas...
448.475Mhz
448.450Mhz
445.0125Mhz
147.030Mhz
927.1375Mhz
Hawaii
443.650
443.475
927.1375
Los Angeles
447.800Mhz
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Hey guys,anyone out there wanting to buy some ham radio equipment?
It belonged to my wifes father from back in the 1970's.
I think it all works,I have plugged the equipment in and it lights up.
Can sent pick of the equipment if interested.
Thanks Z71OFFROAD
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KirkLasVegas,
Quite a station you have set up. Next time were in Las Vegas I will try to catch you on my Kenwood. Are you a Slot Tech ?.
You would have to have a lot of knowledge to set up a nice station as you have.
73's
Chief
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Thanks for the get back,I'm looking to sale the Ham Equipment.
Thanks Z71OFFROAD
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KD8RML here. Just joined the new site recently. Been a ham for about 3 years.
73
Erik
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Also a ham here, technician class no code, working on general no code and of course extra no code
Maybe I will change my 2x3 call when i get my extra if I can get a nice K0xx call
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I have been licensed since 1992, KD6KML then, K6ZRX now. The morning I passed my extra test, I told my wife I got extra class. She told me I needed some extra class!
Mostly work 10, 6, and 160 meters most of the time. I keep a system of linked repeaters going around here and have my own on 440 and 220. The 220 is ACSB. Figured out how to convert the SEA trunking stuff to hammy, both mobiles and repeaters. I use a PIC to convert the data to the VCO from commercial to ham freqs. I learned about the PIC because I bought the Amicus18 board to play with SAS.
73 Josh
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I am a New user on the Newlife Forum here,
I have been a Ham since 1967 that was like 45 years ago, My call now is WA6JNM.
I also was forced for work to have my General Radiotelephone[/size] Operator [/color][/size]License[/color][/b][/color][/size] [/color]
I am active on Dstar and sometimes QRP on HF, I have worked in Electronics for thirty plus years for the government and then on to work for Union pacific for another 10 as a Communications Tech, Loved the work but had to give it up to keep my first retirement money, Now I sit home and play and have fun playing with electronics of all kinds.
73's Don
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My call is KF6ZOK My radios are a Kenwood TS570DG and a Kenwood TS820
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N2AAU here...Home QTH 10 minutes from Atlantic City :D
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N2AAU here...Home QTH 10 minutes from Atlantic City :D
Hey slots_007!
I'm N6JCQ - totally inactive ham in Orange County CA. I need to charge my old Yaesu still.
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As of Tuesday I am KM6HMZ
Icom IC-725
Icom IC-7-6MKII
Icom IC-2100H
Baofeng Crappy HT
Since I live in a townhouse, no big HF Yagi for me. :banghead:
I have a long wire and tuner under the eaves on 2 sides of my house. Not the most effficient setup by far, but I can listen and some folks not too far away can hear me.I do have a 2M/440MHz vertical 6 feet above the roof, because "permanently affixed or attached" appears in the CC&R. It's temporarily attached at the ground and the eave, and I can take it down in 45 seconds. :Crazy:
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Congratulations KM6HMZ! Did you upgrade from a different class/call sign?
So you had a Baofeng too??? I bought one just because it was so cheap. I wanted to see how it worked...
I guess if you lived in a completely open, unobstructed area, with plenty of repeaters in your backyard (ha ha), it would be okay, maybe. I live in range of plenty of repeaters and it took me quite some time to find a spot to key up one. I had to stand in the bed of my truck, and hold the little piece of crap as high as possible and FINALLY I got a faint ... beep.
Needless to say I re-sold my Baofeng and am far happier with my old Yaesu FT 208r.
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Collecting HT's takes up a lot less space than machines......
I lost count a while ago. These are my "Daily" radios, the rest are in the collection area.
Kirk (NO7BS)
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Hey Kirk - you're alive!! :propeller:
Good lord... that's a lot of HT's!
I still have a old 40 channel CB walkie talkie. I just can't part with it. I was on CB for maybe a month and the second I saw the benefit of 2 meters I got my license.
That's a great call sign too! I'd love one like that. Well mine ends in "CQ" which is sorta cool.
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I am alive :) been pretty quiet. Collecting Slots too, not many have 7 i think.
4 Aristocrats, a Bally S9000, a IGT 044 Gameking and a IGT AVP-2.
I am moving my old callsign to a club call (WB6EGR) the new call means "No Bull Shit" hahaha.
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I installed a few in the "Tank"....Analog and P-25 stuff....
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Congratulations KM6HMZ! Did you upgrade from a different class/call sign?
So you had a Baofeng too??? I bought one just because it was so cheap. I wanted to see how it worked...
Brand new license! :drool04:
I bought mine for the exact same reason! :rotfl:
It works ok here (yep a lot of repeaters locally), but it worked a lot better with a $25 antenna upgrade. I got a Diamond dual bander and the SMA-BNC adapter and now it's fine. It's just hard to justify an antenna upgrade that cost more than the radio did! :arrowthruhead:
Beggars can't be choosers, a couple buddies of mine have been harassing me for ~25 years to get my license, but I just never got around to it. On New Years they said they'd buy me a radio if I could pass the test by the end of the month. I told them "better than that, I'll pass it by the end of the week!", and went down on the 7th and aced the test. One gave me the 2100, and the other sold me the 706 for a great price.
The 725 I've had for close to 20 years, used it for SWL.
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I am alive :) been pretty quiet. Collecting Slots too, not many have 7 i think.
4 Aristocrats, a Bally S9000, a IGT 044 Gameking and a IGT AVP-2.
I am moving my old callsign to a club call (WB6EGR) the new call means "No Bull Shit" hahaha.
Hi, Kirk! Are you back in Vegas now?
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Yes, back in Vegas. Hawaii was fun, a beautiful but BORING place to live and very expensive.
Crusing around on the Harley in shorts and a tank top, beach hopping was fun.
Back in Vegas, got a single level house on a 1/4 acre, pool...workshop storage and parking for a semi if needed.
Plenty of room for Wife, Myself and Yoda, no HOA to tell me what I can/cant do and room for LOTS of antennas...
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Amen to the no HOA rules!! Wish I could put up an antenna farm! :duh:
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So I bought ANOTHER Baofeng HT! I had a BF 2 meter a while back and it was so crappy I just sold it.
Recently, I've returned to amateur radio as part of a neighborhood emergency group. So I now have a "new" Radio Shack HTX 212 hooked to a power supply in my room. I bought it for a whopping $30 on ebay, works great. I rejuvenated my Yaesu FT208R HT (the problem is that it needs a PL.)
Our neighborhood group consists of "Hams" like me and "the others," who use FRS radios. Some of the hams have both. But the FRS HT's are limited in output and most don't have a removable antenna.
But... here's where the Baofeng comes in... They're making other duel band models, not marked at "Ham Radios," but are right in there at 2 meters and 440. And, within that 440 are the FRS frequencies. And, it had a removable antenna, so I can attach it to an external antenna. Of course I'll ONLY use that for 2 meters and NEVER for FRS! :Tongue_Out:
I bought the Baofeng UV5RE "plus" which covers a range of 136 - 174 MHz and 400 - 480 MHz although the listing says my "plus" version goes to 520. I'll have to check.
The radio does considerably more than what's listed the piddly "user manual" that it came with. After some poking around the internet, I found a 70 page manual showing all the other features this thing can do. The funniest thing is that is has both a LED flashlight AND another setting where the light flashes and a siren goes off! It also has an FM broadcast radio feature as well.
As for memory programing, it's definitely NOT user friendly. For a 2 meter repeater, for example, you must first put in the frequency. Then (and this is for each time) you must put in CTCSS, then the input frequency shift, then you must tell it if it's plus or minus. You save all that to your desired memory channel. After that, you think it should work but it wont! You have to go back to frequency settings and enter the input frequency and save it AGAIN in the same memory channel. Then it works. But after doing this a few times, it's not so bad. It's also tricky deleting memory channels but I got the hang of that too.
So for a $30 (ish) dollar radio, I'm happy and it was definitely an exercise for my brain. I think I reconnected a lot of old broken synapses, lost after getting a cell phone and forgetting telephone numbers. :rotfl:
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Get yourself the serial cable ($15-20 on Amazon) and a copy of CHIRP (free), and programming this radio is quick and easy! :Crazy:
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Thanks ! It's ordered. I'm getting better at keyboard programming too but I have a question...
I'm listening to remote program origination for an AM radio station at 450.500 MHZ. I reset everything to try adding it as a simplex station but it won't put it in memory! Any ideas why? I can even transmit on it so it's not part of a restricted band. :Scratch-Head:
Just to answer this myself - I got the cable and downloaded CHIRP. I was able to add that frequency using chirp and it works GREAT! It's very easy to program once you start to use it. I was also able to just clone my other radio for all the same settings.
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I don't know how to read this. The instructions make no sense to me. I have a Daiwa CN 103L "cross needle meter." I think my 2 meter runs 30 watts on high power. The meter has two switches: Range and Selector. I have the range on 20 but should it be on 200? The other switch selects AVG and PEP and I have it on AVG. The needles don't match to a proper SWR when I press transmit... it's off the scale. I hope this all makes sense. I used to know this but have been out of radio for 25 years.
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Ok I think I figured it out. My 2 meter puts out 10 watts on low and 45 on high. I had the meter set incorrectly. On low I get a reading of about 1.7 and on high about 1.8 ish. I'm using the super thick coax from the antenna to my room but had to add a piece of RG59 to reach the radio. That piece is about 20 ft long and think I must be getting some loss there. I don't need all that length so I may cut it to size.
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Congratulations KM6HMZ! Did you upgrade from a different class/call sign?
So you had a Baofeng too??? I bought one just because it was so cheap. I wanted to see how it worked...
I guess if you lived in a completely open, unobstructed area, with plenty of repeaters in your backyard (ha ha), it would be okay, maybe. I live in range of plenty of repeaters and it took me quite some time to find a spot to key up one. I had to stand in the bed of my truck, and hold the little piece of crap as high as possible and FINALLY I got a faint ... beep.
Needless to say I re-sold my Baofeng and am far happier with my old Yaesu FT 208r.
That was when I first got my Tech license, Iupgraded to General at the end of July. Oh, and I changed my call, it's now KM6MHZ (for obvious reasons! :Crazy: ). Still living in the townhouse, so HOA means no real antennas (at least that they know about... :propeller: ). The good news is, my new house is almost done with the remodel and I won't have any restrictions when I move in! We're hoping to be done before Christmas, if not sometime in early January. We've been hammering at it (pun intended!) since late August, so it's been a long job.
As far as the Baofeng, I got a Nagoya antenna for it and it works well, I keep it in the glovebox of the truck. We've got a crapload of repeaters around here too, and with the new antenna I have no issue hitting most of them. If it gets dropped in the lake or run over by the truck or a dirt bike, I just go spend another $25 and get a new one :arrowthruhead: . I'd cry if I ran over my Icom HT... :bawling:
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Good to see you can now have a real antenna and nice call sign. :applause:
Yes I'm happy with my new and improved Baofeng. It works fine but it's just tricky to program. But once you figure out, it's easier to understand how it "thinks" so to speak. I did download the app for programming which makes it even easier.
The other thing I like is I can add things such as the weather channels and something odd - the uplink frequencies for a two AM broadcast stations I listen for news and information - talk shows basically. The funny thing is you get the audio BEFORE it runs through the delay system, so if they goof up (or swear) you hear it before it's nipped!
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Never could get the part code right had the record and key, everything from lafayette radio
I think by holding on to that requirement they lost a lot of people
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Never could get the part code right had the record and key, everything from lafayette radio
I think by holding on to that requirement they lost a lot of people
They felt the same way. Nothing stopping you now... Morse code hasn't been a requirement for any license since 2007! :cool_thumb_up: :cool_thumb_up:
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True but an keen interest in amateur radio or any hobby for that matter , except for slots maybe , at 58 is not the same as an
interest at 18,, code requirements sadly killed off a lot of potential hams
they just jumped onto the PC bandwagon . Today age is a real
factor, I think my wrist would snap off if I tried to use my old Vibroplex
but I might manage to send a few words,, an hour .
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True but an keen interest in amateur radio or any hobby for that matter , except for slots maybe , at 58 is not the same as an
interest at 18,, code requirements sadly killed off a lot of potential hams
they just jumped onto the PC bandwagon . Today age is a real
factor, I think my wrist would snap off if I tried to use my old Vibroplex
but I might manage to send a few words,, an hour .
Sorry to hear that! I just turned 57, got my Tech and upgraded to General last year.
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Good for you ,No I tore my wrists up good in the military but of course the
VA hospital says otherwise, no one gets hurt in the military after all ..
You know the damage you do at 19 when you were 10 foot tall ,chrome
plated and bullet proof , it all catches up to you when you are 60
with a vengeance .Like Indiana Jones would say its not the age its the mileage
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I feel your pain, I've got an elbow that doubles as a weather reporter thanks to the USAF.
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Lol same here and a broken hand with a mind of its own
I keep waiting for that aging like fine wine part its more
like getting moldily like cheese so far