Hey everyone

topic posted Sun, September 26, 2004 - 5:47 PM by  Shark
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Just wanted to say hello from WI! I am a newer Ham, for about 6 months now. I passed my tech test with 100%, and was done with it really fast due to the fact I work with wireless in my job with one of the local cell phone companys. Any one else out there like me? Work and play with RF? Let me know!
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Shark
Wisconsin
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  • Re: Hey everyone

    Sun, September 26, 2004 - 9:43 PM
    I drive a shuttle bus (passenger van), and am dispatched
    using a Nextel handheld radio. It looks very much like
    a cell phone.
    73,
    --Loren, AD6YU
    San Jose, California
    (60 mi. south of San Francisco)
    • Re: Hey everyone

      Mon, September 27, 2004 - 2:13 PM
      Cool! Anyone else out there?
      • Re: Hey everyone

        Thu, February 10, 2005 - 6:26 PM
        Well, looks like we are about dead on here. I have got my 6meter radio working after months of screwing around with it. If you hear KC0SHH out there, thats me. By the way, I work for a cell company as a site tech, which goes hand in hand with my ham radio stuff. Also, I am in the market for a used radio, one for a truck. Anyone out there have any suggestions on what would be the best buy?
        Thanks
        KC0SHH
        • Re: Hey everyone

          Thu, February 10, 2005 - 8:09 PM
          I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not dead yet...

          Have fun on 6; that's a great band, and springtime is coming, which means it will be E skip season. What rig is it?

          You mentioned looking for a rig for your truck, but are you looking for something for 2, 6, or HF, and something for just the truck, or something you can also operate from home? Do you like to ragchew, DX, contest, or just see what's on from where?

          Tell us a bit more about what operating you're looking to do, and I'm sure someone (at least me) can recommend some reasonable suggestions.
          • Re: Hey everyone

            Thu, February 10, 2005 - 9:37 PM
            Well, I will be using the turck rig just for the truck. Well, if I get bored I may pull it out and put in my shack, but any-who... There is a great 6m repeater system out here, but 900mhz is big around the city. So, does that help?
            • Re: Hey everyone

              Fri, February 11, 2005 - 9:48 AM
              So you're looking for VHF/UHF, and not necessarily HF.

              Hmm.

              My first thought is to check eham.net or eBay and see if anyone's moving a IC-505 (6m mobile) or an IC-260 (2M mobile).

              For base, there's also their old IC-251/551/551D/451 series, which would give you weak signal abilities on 2/6/440 (which, to a certain extent, is where the fun is). Remember, from where you are, you get E-skip in both directions.

              Icom also made a radio in the mid-80's that allowed you to add modules for the different bands; I don't know as they had a 902 module, but they did have a 1.2 module. A guy I worked with got a 10m module (this was all FM, by the way), and built a small amplifier for it.

              Kenwood made a number of dual-band FM mobile rigs for 2 and 440 through the years, if you want, I track some of their model numbers down.

              Please don't think I'm all anti-FM, by the way--it's just that loading up with a couple of antennas and rigs on the truck and doing weak signal work and roving can be a real blast, especially in the springtime.

              73,

              Warren
            • Re: Hey everyone

              Fri, February 11, 2005 - 1:03 PM
              A good, solid 2M rig is the Yaesu FT-2800M. You can run it
              on low power in your truck, and run it at the max. of 65W
              in your shack. It has preset frequencies for band edge (144 MHz)
              and the simplex calling frequency (146.52 MHz). Other freqs
              must be programmed--not easy to do. The earlier version
              of this rig, the FT-2500M, is much easier to use. Freqs can be
              dialed up--one can get away without programming anything--
              that's the way I use it. Good luck.
              73, Loren, AD6YU--San Jose, Calif.

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