Member III
Dennis, hello from EM15fs.
If you are on Facebook feel free to look up the Oklahoma Off Road Amateur Radio group.
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HAM Radio Call Sign Check-In Thread
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Off-Road Ranger I
Influencer I
There has been talk about it. I think it would just take a person or two to be able to commit some time to being the Net control to get it going.
Maybe be easier to start out with an on air event or two like a weekend round up or "contest".
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Maybe be easier to start out with an on air event or two like a weekend round up or "contest".
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Influencer I
Member III
For us newbies to Ham world, can you explain a bit more of what the net would entail? Are you looking at a broadcast, contest, or other? Thanks in advance for helping me understand. ...KI7RAM
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Off-Road Ranger I
A net is kind of like a virtual meet-up or club meeting. They will start with a check in by net members. Many times they will have a specific agenda with reports by different net members.
Member III
Thanks. So instead of vid conferencing, it's Ham Radio conferencing on a specific frequency at a specific time....
Member III
Right. Some nets are a round table discussion where each person gets a chance to speak either on a specific topic or about their day or whatever. Some nets are info nets where people check in and then the net control or anyone with information (aka traffic) has a chance to give out their information. It could be testing dates, events, club meeting dates/times, etc. Some nets even allow people to sell their ham radio equipment.
Enthusiast III
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That could be cool. I would love to play with dstar more, but that might not allow for too many people to participate.
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What we can do to start with is maybe set a few frequencies and call them the OB calling frequencies. Eg 28.333mhz, 14.283 mhz, 7.0123mhz. 146.600mhz etc. what ever works for you guys over there. Putting in some HF frequencies would allow some international members to call in and participate when the condition allow.
Off-Road Ranger I
K1RAC checking in. Relatively new Ham here. Just got my General ticket add at Dayton this year. Still trying to learn how to use my IC-7300. I'm using an alpha portable vertical antenna because I cannot put up a permanent antenna outside and that's what I take with me when I camp. My first and only contact so far was W1AW two weekends ago. I felt pretty lucky to get that one but other than that I'm having the same luck I do when fishing. No-one is biting.
Any advice? Or just keep calling CQ?
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Any advice? Or just keep calling CQ?
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Try one of the live DX spot reporting websites like https://www.qrz.com/dxcluster
This can help you to find out which bands are open and other stations that are calling cq around the world.
Enthusiast III
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I don't have any fancy or powerful antenna to get me out far with my HT, so I went after repeaters.
I downloaded repeater book to my phone, and then loaded up some of the local repeater freqs to find people. From where I live and travel, I almost always find people on the Peak repeater network that goes up and down I-5. I also find more chatter during the rush hour time frame, seems like many people around here use them over listening to music on their commutes.
Repeater Book is nice because it will use your location to update the nearest freqs as you travel.
I also just happened to know of a couple of nets in the area from my HAM classes when I was getting licensed, and from my volunteering with the local CERT team.
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Enthusiast III
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It would be interesting to see what can be done. My guess is that many folks here have 5w HTs, so 2m/70cm will be the majority of users unless using a echolink or decent repeater network (like Peak that goes up and down I-5 corridor) to carry the signal.
May have to try and rig something up regionally to take advantage of repeaters etc rather than try and get something on a larger scale. The guys that already push long range probably already do so and would be able to hop into anything.
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Off-Road Ranger I
I have both of my local repeaters in my mobile rig. What I'm having issues with is HF, I'm mostly trying on 20m and 40m. Those seem to be what I can hear most activity on. I'm getting the parts together to try an end-fed wire, maybe that will open up some possibilities for making contacts.
There was a thread that determined that 146.460mhz I think it was is the official OB 2m frequency. There were also GMRS and CB channels and I think an FRS channel selected to cover the major communication options most members will have.
I do think it would be fun to have some HF frequencies selected as well though.
Influencer I
Off-Road Ranger I
So no FRS which I wasn't sure about but here's the specific post.
https://www.overlandbound.com/forums/threads/single-unified-communication-system-for-overland-bound-members.17616/page-2#post-241655
Edit: I didn't notice this at first but it's also right at the top of the forums home screen!
https://overlandbound.com/forums/
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Off-Road Ranger I
FYI: GMRS and FRS channels are the same. So if you have FRS radios, you can communicate with GMRS Channel 15 as well
Off-Road Ranger I
Good point. I didn't think about it at all and just assumed it was a GMRS specific channel. That's what happens when I assume...lol.
