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Bloody posted:I want to build this but I don't know why it should exist beyond the novelty he could charge hausbus with them if he could pack enough battery on there to make the round trip.
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i cant say anything more without getting yospos shut the f down
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Apr 30, 2015 07:14
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 u got a good overhead pass tonight jonny. this is central time tho
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Apr 30, 2015 17:14
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Jonny 290 posted:i cant say anything more without getting yospos shut the f down literally text me
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Apr 30, 2015 18:46
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i'll try to grab that pass, thanks! -- bout to trim up the windom a little bit. i'll take pics in a few
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Apr 30, 2015 18:52
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can you see the 40 meter antenna? alllll the way up there  i used my painters pole to hoist a water bottle full of water with a string attached over that limb  the last six feet or so come off at a 120-ish degree angle to another tree, no tension on this one  baluns/feedpoint, just over my head when i'm standing on the roof  that Wireman awg 18 copper clad insulated is worth the money
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Apr 30, 2015 20:19
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The trailer park people are cool with all that?
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Apr 30, 2015 20:24
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they rent me a square of concrete for $500 a month versus the ~75 a month they get out of a trailer resident. they don't give a gently caress. besides i'll take my antennas down when they stop those god drat kids from cutting through the yard to get to the playground
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Apr 30, 2015 20:31
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Jonny 290 posted:they rent me a square of concrete for $500 a month versus the ~75 a month they get out of a trailer resident. they don't give a gently caress. i bet that invisible wire would keep those kids from cutting through.....
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Apr 30, 2015 20:32
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i tried that with (un-energized obv) electric fence wire. they just went around and bent up the next section of fence
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Apr 30, 2015 20:33
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old man 290, lmao
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Apr 30, 2015 20:34
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eh i've kind of stepped down on the cutting through thing ever since a soccer ball cracked the bmw windshield theres intangible annoyances, and tangible annoyances
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Apr 30, 2015 20:39
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Jonny 290 posted:they rent me a square of concrete for $500 a month that seems... excessive
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Apr 30, 2015 20:40
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Jonny 290 posted:eh i've kind of stepped down on the cutting through thing ever since a soccer ball cracked the bmw windshield u got the parents to fix that for you right? we had our honda's back glass knocked out by a rock thrown by a neighbor kid and you better believe i went over and told their parents what the kid did. idk what they did to him but we got our glass replaced the next day
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Apr 30, 2015 20:41
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spankmeister posted:that seems... excessive all utilities paid saved our rear end in the middle of winter PuTTY riot posted:u got the parents to fix that for you right? we had our honda's back glass knocked out by a rock thrown by a neighbor kid and you better believe i went over and told their parents what the kid did. idk what they did to him but we got our glass replaced the next day i didn't see it happen and there are like 80 different kids running around. i'd rather just fix it and be done than be the lovely white dude living in a hispanic trailer park
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Apr 30, 2015 20:49
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fair enough, mine happened when we were outside smoking cigs
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Apr 30, 2015 20:55
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bah my comet 2x4sr is hosed and can't get below 3:1 on 2 meters no matter what I do odd thing is, 70cm works fine, <1.6 across the band emailed comet with a begging, pleading, poor-me email to see if they'll toss me a new base loading coil. this one is full of water and rust i hear their customer service is pretty good -- it's about to be the 40 meter part of the evening. time to see how this windom does up high. i havent tried it much since i eleveated that end this morning
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Apr 30, 2015 23:09
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i emailed Comet and they're all "yeah you can buy a replacement base unit for 36 bucks plus shipping" gently caress that lets get some vise grips unscrew, it's a little 5 turn coil from ground to antenna with the hot fed through a tiny ceramic cap labeled "68" to a tap about 2 turns down clean off the decades of corrosion, make sure the cap lead isn't shorting to the coil, bend the big center contact pin so that it's solid and tight, file away to clean brass on all the screw/sliding contacts, button it back up baaaaaam 1.7 at 144, 1.5 at 146, 1.3 at 148. (and 1.2 at 150. and 1.3 at 155. and 1.2 at 162. and 1.2 at 170) 70cm is similarly hilarious, it is below 2:1 from 430 to 485 mhz spoiler it is built for mixed use search and rescue ops across several freq ranges this thing is effing amazing, i've never seen such a broadbanded antenna. obviously some of it is coil/cap loss but still, one hell of an antenna to hook up to a dual bander or scanner even oh and don't forget it's a mobile antenna. so it's on a mirror mount clamped 20 feet up on a pole and i have a ground plane that is currently two wires bent severely down, at like a 70 or 75 degree angle. for testing anyways
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May 1, 2015 02:03
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290 can i "hear" the buses in town (whatever cb network) with my sdr e: i mean their tracking signal, not whatever dumbo chat room they're in
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May 1, 2015 02:56
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ChiralCondensate posted:290 can i "hear" the buses in town (whatever cb network) with my sdr probably not cause they are likely using lte for that. if u had an excellent antenna location(s) and they aren't using lte, maybe? dig thru FCC database and see what u find
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May 1, 2015 17:59
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spent a little time playing 20 meters in the 7-land QSO Party today just giving out points pacnw has pretty good coverage on the new antenna but the real star is to the southwest. i can hear every single dude in arizona good coverage to the east too, i got several new england contacts too
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May 3, 2015 00:20
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is this thing, when coupled with an old pc, useful for anything http://www.dkdinst.com/products/810B.html bc i have one now
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May 3, 2015 00:39
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 made a thing
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May 3, 2015 05:54
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may have changed my mind yet again. i would keep the 475 IF i could get a matching 275. the decider will be if i get any hits on a "trading ic-271a + cash for ic-275a/h" ad i threw up i realized my 271 is worth ~300 now that i fixed it and it has that nice RAM board that neutralizes the #1 problem with the radios (some of the code is in battery backed RAM and if it dies, the radio bricks) and maybe i could throw 250 bucks and that radio at somebody for a 275 they aren't usin my poo poo could look like this the very finest monoband vhf/uhf radios ever built  (the 375 in Japan was a 70cm radio - there was a US market IC-375 that did 220 MHz, but that's not a band in that hemisphere, so yeah) Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 05:57 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 05:54
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Jonny 290 posted:
can it be reprogrammed things like that should've been illegal. radios and sparcstations and CPS-2 games
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May 3, 2015 07:58
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yeah i think it can be redone but most people just buy the eprom board. its $100 versus getting your old board redone for $80
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May 3, 2015 08:25
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we have storms rolling through and the new crop of skywarn spotters have the roger beeps enabled on their pooofuuungs the quality of these skywarn nets gets worse and worse each year QSL QSL QSL 73 73 73
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May 3, 2015 22:51
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manero posted:we have storms rolling through and the new crop of skywarn spotters have the roger beeps enabled on their pooofuuungs skywarns been going to poo poo ever since Twister came out, truth
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May 3, 2015 22:54
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have any of the big three announced sdr tech yet? i'm not really familiar with any models at all. i mean yeah stuff like the 7850 blurs the line but i'm pretty sure they have a pretty standard superhet signal path still
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May 3, 2015 22:55
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Jonny 290 posted:skywarns been going to poo poo ever since Twister came out, truth that's like almost 20 years ago
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May 3, 2015 22:57
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Jonny 290 posted:may have changed my mind yet again. i would keep the 475 IF i could get a matching 275. the decider will be if i get any hits on a "trading ic-271a + cash for ic-275a/h" ad i threw up dang is that pl tone squelch i see even in there?
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May 3, 2015 22:57
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Sniep posted:dang is that pl tone squelch i see even in there? oh yeah they're 100% still with the times. scan speed is fast, PL encode (optional decode, who cares about that if you're not downtown) and they can hear a mouse fart in a hurricane down in the SSB allocations. standard icom computer control blah blah. sick rigs you still gotta come over and spin some dials soon as i get a grill
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crs: checked into net on my ht (man we got a hot new repeater location) while flipping some chicken on the grill. Jonny get the grill. propane since ur already set for that
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May 4, 2015 02:35
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manero posted:we have storms rolling through and the new crop of skywarn spotters have the roger beeps enabled on their pooofuuungs i actually like a good roger beep on simplex, like the chirp most digital radios play (i know the receiver makes those), the baofeng type sounds awful and is way too loud though putting them at the start of transmissions is a good way to remind people to wait even a tiny bit before speaking into a handheld
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haven't had a chance to see if there's any voltage drop but I got it up to 14.2v [img-awfulappsucks] also I don't think these pots that were sold to me as linear 1k pots are, in fact, linear. if I breathe on that pot it'll shoot up high enough for OVP to kick in. and it's loud. but it'll work for a bench supply at least. I wonder if I could fool the psu into thinking the fan is on and just get rid of it entirely and use my own fan 
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May 4, 2015 19:50
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my 2015 challenge: GROL lets take the tests http://www.fcctests.com/sample.asp elements 1 and 3 bout to try
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May 4, 2015 23:19
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element 1 22/24 element 3 68/100 need to brush up on my impedance calcs
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May 4, 2015 23:53
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holy poo poo and i know nothing about radar and got 60% on the radar endorsement first bash through notbad
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May 5, 2015 01:01
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what does GROL mean it sounds cool
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general radiotelephone operator's license. possessing one shows you are able to understand whats going on with maritime communications and that you are a moderate solderhead. the radar endorsement means you can poke on ship radars without the FCC screaming and that is worth money
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