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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Seeking recommendations for mobile 2m/70cm rig & antenna
« on: June 27, 2013, 12:23:29 PM »
Quote from: K1JS on June 27, 2013, 11:52:11 AM
Thank you both, Matt & Jonathan.  I've made my purchase and I've moved in a slightly different direction - even still, though, your replies, ideas, and suggestions were greatly appreciated! Thanks again!

73,
John
K1JS

Glad to hear!

BUT! Don't leave us hangin'! What'd ya get?!  :D

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Digital Modes / Digital Ham Radio
« on: June 26, 2013, 09:20:23 PM »
Digital Modes: What are you using?


I personally run P25, MotoTRBO, and Dstar (I will be replacing this with a p25 radio however)

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Seeking recommendations for mobile 2m/70cm rig & antenna
« on: June 24, 2013, 08:32:32 PM »
The big issue here is going to be amps... If you want to be able to run more than 5 watts you are going to have to have a direct larger gauge wire run to the battery.

If you wanted to be able to run a mobile in more than one vehicle you could install a power cord in whatever other cars you wanted to move it to...


As far as radios themselves, anything Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu are going to be good choices.

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Seeking recommendations for mobile 2m/70cm rig & antenna
« on: June 24, 2013, 05:59:04 PM »
John,

I would recommend the Larsen 2/70 NMO with an NMO mag mount. Probably one of the best performing antennas for the 2/70 bands.
As far as an HT the question is what do you want it to be able to do and how much $$$$?

I have a couple of yaesu HTs that I like but I am a commercial radio junkie and prefer those over anything else...

Jonathan - K5TLF

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Hello!
« on: June 22, 2013, 11:12:30 AM »
I really enjoy working them. DMR/MotoTRBO has to be my favorite because of the ability it has with time slots and talk groups.

I mainly wanted the P25 radio for listening to the Texas state troopers and some federal stuff. And we have a few P25 repeaters around the state as well.
I was going to put up a TRBO repeater here but there is a guy who runs a radio shop a couple hours south of where I live that has one that is waiting to go in here. So I will prolly work on puting up a P25 repeater. Then I can talk to myself on it....

Hams around my area are funny. They will spend 5K on a HF rig but just about loose it if you tell them a VHF or UHF radio costs 500....

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Hello!
« on: June 21, 2013, 11:53:04 AM »
A Motorola XTS 2500 Model III in VHF

Now i have to get a UHF version and a VHF XTL 5000  :D

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ESSB / Re: Teach me!
« on: June 21, 2013, 08:42:53 AM »
Awesome! I have never heard of it before. I am going to have to check that out!

Thanks for the info!

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Hello!
« on: June 21, 2013, 08:40:21 AM »
I completely understand! I have been out of town most of this week for work myself... However, I did pick up a new radio while I was out, so it was not all bad!  ;D

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Hello!
« on: June 16, 2013, 06:35:08 AM »
I'd say something along the lines of "Digital Voice Technologies" with "P25, DMR/MotoTRBO, iDAS/NXDN, D-Star" in the lower field.

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ESSB / Teach me!
« on: June 15, 2013, 02:39:11 PM »
I know nothing about wide ssb. What can you tell me about it?

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Software Defined radio (SDR) Forum / RealTech - The Cheap SDR
« on: June 15, 2013, 02:36:49 PM »
Just picked one of these up a couple of weeks ago from ebay.
They are a blast! Frequency accuracy can be off but will get you in the ball park. Its great for looking around the bands and for basic monitoring. I have been playing with mine using it to decode digital comms. Works pretty well!

I highly reccomend them! Great toy! I have discovered a ton of stuff out on the bands that I did not know was there!

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Antennas / Laird "Phantom" Antennas
« on: June 15, 2013, 02:31:25 PM »
I am running a 440 and a 900 phantom antenna. Let me just say these things rock! Hard to beat for local comms. When i want to reach out to a distant repeater they cant beat my larger higher gain antenna. When I am just driving around town and using local machines (within 20 or so miles. granted I have accessed repeaters 40 miles away and being readable with these antennas) they cant be beat!

I just switched from a 1/4 wave 900mhz antenna to the phantom and it made a big improvement. Im def sold on them!

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General discussion (QSO) / Re: Hello!
« on: June 15, 2013, 02:21:54 PM »
I will be happy to help however I can! I love the digital voice modes! So much flexability. Plus the added bouns of not having to listen to intermod and static lol


I was going to bring up the possibility of a digital sub forum. I think there is a big chunk of hams that run digital voice/data. I am a sucker for it!

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General discussion (QSO) / Hello!
« on: June 14, 2013, 02:23:33 PM »
Just wanted to introduce myself to the new forum! My name is Jon and I live in the Texas Panhandle. My primary interests are in the digital voice modes (such as MotoTRBO, P25, D-Star). Currently I am just a Tech but would like to upgrade to general. I am a computer tech for a major US company. If I can be any help in that department im glad to help! Looking forward to seeing this forum grow!

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