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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?
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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.
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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.
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| Date: | 10/16/2020 | Net Control: | WD6TED | EchoLink: 591550 |
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| 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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