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WL7NT in Fairbanks, Alaska, checkin' in. I'll second (or third...whatever...) Yaesu suggestions. I use the following:  It's built like a tank, and great for mobile. Throw in a battery pack and a cheap dipole, and chat around the world on 5 watts of power. 
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McRib Sandwich posted:
Yeah, I don't have it mounted in my car, 'cause it is rather on the large side. I usually haul it into my tent and either run it off the battery, or hook it to my car's battery if my tent is close enough. 10 feet of PVC pipe and some rope gets the antenna off the ground.
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I really, really wanted to get the 897 as my HF rig, but the drat thing is too big to operate inside a vehicle, and it's counterpart (the 857) just seemed to small / hard to operate mobile... not enough controls directly accessible. I love how versatile the 897 is, though. Definitely feels like a rig that will take some abuse and still keep on ticking 25 years later.
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Sirotan posted:Why is it that, besides being blind or gay/bisexual, people with amateur radio licenses can nab a ridiculous amount of college scholarships? In regards to scholarships, having attained an amateur radio license tends to show you have an understanding of electronics and the math related to it. A lot of the engineering students at our local campus tend to have ham radio licenses. As for the ham radio callsign license plates, our state DMV allow them as special plates to signify vehicles equiped with amateur radios and thus available to assist in an emergency situation.
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Apr 17, 2008 03:35
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Dunno if anyone's interested, but I figured I'd plug my Yaesu FT-897D programming blog. It's in need of an update, but I'm hoping to have one this weekend. Any ideas, or things people might like to see in a computer control for a radio, are certainly welcome.
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Apr 17, 2008 22:27
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nmfree posted:I understand that if I send the appropriate command I'll get a return code from the radio from 00h to FFh that is the temperature on a non-calibrated scale. But what am I supposed to do with the +7? For example, it might return: 30h FFh FFh 50h 20h 00h 60h 50h 22h Which would correspond to: 0 - Microphone switch 1: PTT 1 - Forward Power: FFh 2 - Reverse Power: FFh 3 - S-Meter level: 50h 4 - MIC level: 20h 5 - Squelch level: 00h 6 - Microphone switch 2: P1 7 - Final Temp: 50h 8 - ALC level: 22h The program would have to grab that 8th bit of data and figure out the temp from the hex code.
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Apr 18, 2008 00:40
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McRib Sandwich posted:Wheee... I'm on 147.090 now, listening to some other old guy talk slower than I can tap out Morse (mind you I barely passed 5 WPM for my General). Talking about old transatlantic cables, and now magazines and airmail. Heh, at least you get conversations. About the only time I hear any activity on 2 meters around here is when we've had an earthquake. Then it goes crazy for an hour until the Ham that works at the geophysical institute gets on to let everyone know how big it was. Then it goes silent again. 
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Apr 23, 2008 22:58
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I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
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Quick question - I need to renew my license, but I'm in the US and the FCC is essentially shut down. What happens if it doesn't reopen before the expiration? My license expires next week. Edit - S'pose I should have checked the ARRL website before posting. quote:Radio amateurs whose licenses expire between October 1 and the day after normal FCC operations resume may continue to operate until then, even if they have not yet filed a renewal application. Pending an official FCC announcement that states otherwise, applicants should apply for renewal no later than one day after the FCC reopens, if they want to continue to operate. http://www.arrl.org/news/the-fcc-shutdown-at-a-glance FuzzyBuddha fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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