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Ah yes, sorry for the confusion. I've sent an email to my local club who manages the Echolink repeater to ask for permission to use it on Friday nights. I'm interested to see if I can connect!
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I jumped on it a little to quick as I rushed out the door this morning. Stupid countdown timers. Any way I'll check out the reddit, any chance you want to provide cliff notes?If you go on the r/amateurradio forum on reddit, you get two different camps. This topic came up this week and after reading it, if you had a couple extra dollars, go for a Yaesu HT to start with like the FT-4x that Backroad Explorer mentioned above. Also the FT-65R is a good starter option.
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This is the post I was referring too where they discuss the HT's:I jumped on it a little to quick as I rushed out the door this morning. Stupid countdown timers. Any way I'll check out the reddit, any chance you want to provide cliff notes?
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Decent enough read, not much actual info other than preference? Time to study up and make sure I can use it.This is the post I was referring too where they discuss the HT's:
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Seems like the major gripe is that the internal electronics on the Baofeng are on the cheaper end of the spectrum. Also, potential spurious transmissions were also a possible cause of concern. If you're looking for an entry level HT the Yaesu would be the way to go.Decent enough read, not much actual info other than preference? Time to study up and make sure I can use it.
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Date: | 10/16/2020 | Net Control: | WD6TED | EchoLink: 591550 |
Topic: Open | ||||
Check In | Call Sign | Name | Location | Notes |
1 | va2eek | Don | Quebec | Quick check-in has another net in 20m. Put his winter tires on last week. Still working from home. Got 2 DMR radios tonight. Lights you can have too many lights that might interfere with the rig radio. Cheap LED lights can cause a lot of extra noise for the radios. |
2 | ki5bee/ve3 | Calvin | Ontario | Got winter tires ready on 1 vehicle. Looking at different options for vehicle undercoating and how well the hold up with mild overlanding. Not much going on in the world of amateur radio and found that infrastructure for APRS wasn't too bad. He wants to continue testing that in rural areas. He's testing a J-pole antenna about 9 - 12 feet long. Done well with it and the HT. Next he's going to string it up in a tree. |
3 | w8ill | Will | Taylor, MI | Son always working on the car. Amateur radio is keeping him up - he was up at 5:00 this morning. Got his 10m - 75m antennas up right now, but haven't turned the radios on the last couple of weeks. Lot of new stations coming in on AllStar. |
4 | kt4oz | 3710 Terry | Covington, VA | Never used undercoating on his vehicles. When he was young they had undercoating on one vehicle and none on the other. The vehicle with undercoating rusted faster, his father confirmed that is typically case. Sittin in his new radio shack. Just about finished and got the radio table up there. Still deciding how he wants to organize everthing. Got rig runner and 1/2 copper pipe so he can maybe take care of some of his RFI problems. Got a plan for using window pass throughs for his coax connections. Hoping to be back on the air pretty soon. |
5 | N7PHY | Ed | Edmonds, WA | Got out quite a bit spring and summer. Got him to think about things to add to truck. Maybe a roofrack and place to mount an awning. Need some aux lighting. Hoping to get out next weekend for the CQ WW SSB. Just purchased a Elecraft KPA500 amp and KAT500 tuner. He's going to use primarily for his go kit. Had problems with wildfires for the Washington state QSP - was the only person in the county so took 1st place for the county. |
6 | K7XPO | 3553 Brien | Tuscon, AZ | Not much happening in the overlanding world in recent times. Hoping in the next week or two to head out, maybe during the new moon to get some astrophotography in. Future topic ideas: hearing what people are doing for running power to the rear of their vehicle. Maybe another food/cooking, navigation (we covered that recently). Brien just picked up the NOLS Wilderness Navigation book and is going to go through their class for navagation in the beginning of the year. NOLS = National Outdoor Leadership School nols.edu |
7 | WX5SKY | Jon | Oklahoma City | Not much happening in the overlanding world. Too much work. Bout as much as overlanding - not much going on. Working at home has limited his drive time. Thinking about putting up a digipeater. Would be nice to have an HF radio at home. |
8 | NB9D | Neil | Paris, ME | Getting ready for wintertime. Possible topics: Improvised fixes to get you home off the trail. Also orienteering / wildnerness survival. |
9 | KJ7MUE | Jack | WA state between Olympia and Mt. Rainer | Had two antennas go down in the storms and had some lightining. Lots of winds after the lightining. He puts about a 2 -3" pipe down alongside of the ground rod really makes a difference. Has a lot of noise from a new wind farm that just went in. There is a logging camp not too far with electric fences. The weather has been nice and the wet weather has kept the RFI down. |
10 | VK2DY | Robert | Sydney, AUS | Nice weather, and everything is in bloom. |
Summary: | Net closed at | 01:45z 21:45 EDT, 18:46 PDT |
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Hey Brian,Is there another DMR TG beside the 1137550
I would like to check in with DMR
Brian
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Tried logging in but keep getting failure to routeThank you Shaun for pointing that out. I did update on the other Friday Net forum thread but missed this one.
Here's my post from this morning:
Hello everyone.
I'll be your net control this evening for the OB net. It's the first Friday of the month so our topic is 'new HAM Q&A'. Any HAM radio question or topic is on the table, including installation of radios and antennas in our rigs.
Hope to hear you tonight!
Ed - N7PHY
Overland Bound Ham Radio Net for November 6 2020.
Topic: HAM Radio Q&A
Net Control: Ed N7PHY
When: Friday November 6th (North America) 17:30 PST, 20:30 EST, 01:30 UTC
Where: Echolink Conference Server 591550 *USA-GNG* , also DMR TG 1137550, and Allstar 41130
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I have the Node, just failing to connectI am listening in. Someone mentioned they couldn't find the node by typing in the exact number but searching and connecting that way worked. No idea if anything I am saying makes sense but i figured I'd relay.
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Finally got logged inI am listening in. Someone mentioned they couldn't find the node by typing in the exact number but searching and connecting that way worked. No idea if anything I am saying makes sense but i figured I'd relay.
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Congratulations Justin!Passed my Tech test with flying colors! (34/35). time to start studying for General.
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