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To echo Mike's request, we need some help if the net is going to continue. Anyone willing to jump in and take a Friday?
Advocate III
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Member III
Advocate III
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Thank you for the invite to the net control. Looking forward to the behind the scenes discussions...
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Advocate III
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Overland Bound Friday Night Echolink Net Control Log | |||
Call Sign | Name | Location | Notes |
KC2MJB | Doug | New York | Round 1: Had a lot of snow up there in Syracuse, New York. Second time on net, very interested in Overlanding. Looking for Ideas to get his van set up for mobile amateur radio operations. Round 2: Visits Black Lake Net Control suggests Cranberry Lake for some good fishing. Small World. |
N7PHY | Ed | Washington | Round 1:Made an Antenna Launcher to launch bean bags with a rope over trees to hoist wires. Round 2: reminder Vancuver BC QSO Party Saturday 8-8 pacific and Sunday 8-4 all bands 160m to 10m AM/FM/SSB/CW/RTTY no WRK Bands!!! |
KD8SUM | John | Alabama | Nothing Heard |
K4RUF | Chris | North Carolina | Been a free member since 2018, just baught a membership, got badges this week. 1st time on the net. Interested in QRP on the road. |
K7XPO | Brien | Arizona | Highly reccomends QRP Labs QCX 5w CW Transceiver kits. Also interested in the new QCX Mini. For more information check out http://www.qrplabs.com |
NK7VWK | Randall | Tazmania | Glad to hear new stations on the net, reminder we need more “Net Control” operators. Question, has 2 Transceivers and wants to run 1 antenna- What do I need to make this work? Answers- Antenna Switch ran in reverse? Duplexer |
K6SJG | Shawn | California | in and out |
KT4OZ | Terry | Washington | Disappointed in the semiconductor factory fire. Kenwood Radio is discontinued before it was ever produced. Working on his shack |
KJ7OJX | Gregg | Arizona | not an overlander, but checking in for second time as waiting for the tech net. Has a Yaesu FT857D trying to find out what “FKP” means in the mode menu |
KJ7MFV | Mike | Oregon | working on a group buy for QRP Labs QSX Mini Transceiver Look for details coming up. |
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| Overland Bound Amatuer Radio Net | |||
| NCS: | KT4OZ | ||
| Topic: How to run power to the rear of your vehicle | |||
| ke6gvk | mike | Az | in/out |
| vk7vwk | Randall | Tasmania | r1: nothing R2: Vehicle he's currently in he's lucky. Has factory option with added 120A rated cable under the passenger seat. Using a plastic stick, it's easy to route cables through a system in the floor. Has smart charging system so you have to use a DC-DC system. Never had battery failures because of the charging system, only from over discharge from use. Works better than solenoid type system. |
| kj7due | Kim | Montana | R1: actually doing a bit of power routing. 2016 JK. Groment on driver's side to put thigns though that will self seal. Ran individual wires and coaxes for multiple radios. Also have full size pickup, easier to do. Ran #6 along frame rail to truck bed. Firewalls are tough to find a way through. R2: Comment for protecting wires. Alex Tech sleeve for protecting wires. Power to the bed of the truck uses DC-DC charger for RV. Uses Bluesea Systems fuse block powering 3 radios and air compressor in the truck. |
| ki5bee | Calvin | Ontario | R1: All ears, can't speak much for running power to the back. Cap has a dome light but that's it. Been wanting to add circuits. Proud of running coax to the top. Punched a hole in the top of the truck and hasn't looked back. Ran coax for antenna down the b-pillar and under driver's seat. Using a through hole NMO mount. R2: Has added rear back-up lights and ran along the tubing of the rail to the battery. Uses corrigated tubing for protection under the hood. Likes Alex Tech. |
| ko4bdt | Mike | Roanoke, Va | R1: In the Cherokee, ran a hill's off-road gear power box. In Tundra but going to follow wires for the cap. R2: Just listening in, hasn't done any other mods. |
| kc2mjb | Doug | NY | R1: Cheating a little bit. 1965 Corvair Van. Wouldn't have to run a wire very far because the battery and engine are in the rear of the van. Just using a VHF radio in the van. If he wanted to do it the hard way, there's a tunnel through the middle of the van and could pull the cover and add it do it. Uses a mag mount antenna but looking forward to doing something else. R2: Got info for forum! |
| n7phy | Ed | Washington | Announcements: None. R1: All ears like Calvin. Has run lots of cable in buildings but not in vehicles. Does anyone run any armor or protection for cables. What if you needed aux power in the back and just had a battery in the back of the truck. R2: TX issues |
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| Overland Bound Amateur Radio Net | Announcements | |||
| NCS: | N7PHY Ed | Suggestion to move net to bi-weekly schedule | ||
| Tech round table tonight at 0300 utc. Larry K7RFX | ||||
| Topic: HF mobile setup and participation in mobile / portable operations | ||||
| Check In | Name | Location | I/O | Notes |
| N7IAD | Greg | Edmonds WA | x | Listening in |
| KB7RSV | Scott | WA | x | |
| K7DK | Mark | WA | Had 50w rig but traded for IC705 at 10 watts. Couple of broken yaesu antennas. 40 and 20 m. And dedicated 80m antenna. Screwdriver antennas. | |
| KI5BEE/VE3 | Calvin | ONT | No HF mobile, tech license. Friends have hf mobile rigs with setup with TNC to hit their HF from parking lot or hotel room. Bi-weekly net, good if it encourages more participation. | |
| K7XPO | Brien | Tuscon | No HF mobile but interested. | |
| VK7VWK | Randall | Hobart Tasmania | Wx not good for vehicle projects. Also interested in HF mobile. Considering best setup. We have an outpost radio system but does not cover ham bands. Newer units can be adapted. Have transceiver I can remote control. Looking at single whip antenna with spade connector to select band. And bring some sort of wire antenna for at comp. | |
| KE6GVK | Mike | AZ | x | |
| KG4MBU | Brian | CA | x | |
| K7NDO | Indeo | Seattle WA | Not sure I'd be interested in HF mobile. So busy with VHF / UHF. Interesting though. | |
| kj7? | Too much noise to copy call sign. Learned a repeater in Mesa AZ is having problems and likely cause of the noise. Very sorry we couldn't pick you up. | |||
| KM6GWU | Dan | CA | HF - built into go box and paired with wolf river coil antenna. Bring that when offroading. |
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I believe you could setup a hotspot then connect to one of the allstar nodes but I'm afraid I've not dabbled in that bit of amateur radio yet. Check out the White Mountain site for connected nodes and repeaters for a place to start.
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Yeah, I checked the site. None of the options listed are available on pi-star from what I'm seeing.
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If you move to a night other than Friday or Saturday (US Time), I'll probably be at work. If I'm working from home still that may not be too much of a problem unless I have work meetings at that time.
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