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Tech Tips or Tricks – After The Net
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Category: Tech Tips or Tricks. Items covered in our 1/4/17 Tech Net. January 7, 2017. February 2, 2017. In this week’s first-of-the-month Tech Net, we covered quite a wide range of Q’s and A’s, as well as some new and old laws on the books. I guess we would be caught under the “specialized mobile radio device”, but the wording, and even the definitions they provided, are so vague that I could probably be pulled over for talking into a corn dog. And yes, they did exempt anyone operating as...Https:/ www&#...
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Ham Radio Deluxe Blackball for Negative Review – After The Net
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Ham Radio Deluxe Blackball for Negative Review. December 20, 2016. December 21, 2016. How to not endear yourself to your customers 101: Shut off the licensing to your customer when they post a critical review. N2SUB found out the hard way you don’t mess with Ham Radio Deluxe. After publishing a review on eham. The eham review that sparked the controversy seems to speak fairly well to issues other hams have encountered with the product, including myself. N2SUB does not call anyone names, make any fals...
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Thoughts and Links to a Few Things Discussed on Our Tech Net Tonight – After The Net
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Thoughts and Links to a Few Things Discussed on Our Tech Net Tonight. December 8, 2016. December 8, 2016. PL on your receiver, or CTCSS:. Where we can place them somewhat closer together, and users can make sure they only bring up their own system, and not the other ham group’s repeater. On our own receivers, though, there has never been such a rule that we use PL. The official term for PL on your receiver is CTCSS, which stands for. Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System. DMR (Digital Mobile Radio):.
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Ham Radio 360 Podcast features local hams – After The Net
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Ham Radio 360 Podcast features local hams. December 8, 2016. December 8, 2016. George, KJ6VU, has a great podcast and accompanying web page with some interesting gear and DIY projects going on. They are presently doing a group build of a 1-30 MHz antenna analyzer based on the Arduino platform. Have a look and/or listen at www.hamradio360.com. And look around, be sure to read the QST magazine “test drive” of his antennas. Highly recommended. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). February 2, 2017.
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Antennas – After The Net
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A Few Items from Tonight’s Tech Net. February 2, 2017. February 2, 2017. On tonight’s tech net, the main items of discussion centered around coax, antennas, power supplies and batteries. All things that we as hams have to deal with. Due to the length of my explanations here, I’m going to skip batteries for now, and just throw down a few thousand words about coax and antennas:. Coaxial cables come in many different types and sizes. One question was why are there so many different sizes of coax? Antennas c...
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N6DZK – After The Net
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Rick Ruhl Leaves HRD. January 3, 2017. HRD Software released a statement Friday. HRD published an apology for the incident and vowed to review their customer service policies. An apology was also posted to eham, their twitter feed and their Facebook account. All of this has also been tracked in a huge Reddit thread. Let’s hope this can now be behind them and they can get back to fixing bugs. Ham Radio Deluxe. Ham Radio Deluxe Blackball for Negative Review. December 20, 2016. December 21, 2016. It hardly ...
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DStar – After The Net
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Items covered in our 1/4/17 Tech Net. January 7, 2017. February 2, 2017. In this week’s first-of-the-month Tech Net, we covered quite a wide range of Q’s and A’s, as well as some new and old laws on the books. F) For the purposes of this section, electronic wireless communications device includes, but is not limited to, a broadband personal communication device, a specialized mobile radio device, a handheld device or laptop computer with mobile data access, a pager, or a two-way messaging device. Https:/...
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Rick Ruhl Leaves HRD – After The Net
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Rick Ruhl Leaves HRD. January 3, 2017. HRD Software released a statement Friday. HRD published an apology for the incident and vowed to review their customer service policies. An apology was also posted to eham, their twitter feed and their Facebook account. All of this has also been tracked in a huge Reddit thread. Let’s hope this can now be behind them and they can get back to fixing bugs. Ham Radio Deluxe. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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Repeaters And Clubs – After The Net
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The amateurs here at the Southern end of the Santa Clara Valley, representing Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, and Hollister, are primarily represented by the following ham clubs…. 8211; Morgan Hill Amateur Radio Society. Weekly Net each Wednesday @ 21:00 on both repeaters (linked). Mhz Offset: 05.00. Mhz PL: 100.0. About 2,000 ft in elevation. Wide area coverage over South County, South towards Salinas, and North along 101 corridor and west. Mhz Offset: 0.600. Mhz PL: 103.5. Mhz Offset: 05.00 Mhz. Decem...
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Hardware Review – After The Net
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Super PowerGate: Part of a Ham’s Home UPS. February 2, 2017. February 2, 2017. During our tech net tonight, I couldn’t remember the name or model number of the piece of gear that allows me to have my own uninterruptible power supply (or UPS) to keep all my ham gear running, especially when the lights go off. So here it is: The West Mountan Radio PG-40S PowerGate. Items covered in our 1/4/17 Tech Net. January 7, 2017. February 2, 2017. F) For the purposes of this section, electronic wireless communication...