đź’¬ OT The official Amateur (ham) Radio thread - and GMRS
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Just a simple EFHW that’s 132’ long. Slopes from 30’ down to 10’.
I keep eyeing the Xeigu G90, 20W seems like it does okay. Supposedly the transistors are extremely conservatively rated in them.
I try to keep power down to 10-20w for FT4/FT8, since it is supposed to be low power. There are a few times where I've had to push it. Just went full-send about five minutes ago to hit St. Helena Island. Took about 10 minutes of back and forth before we landed it. The whole island is only 10 miles wide.
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Work on it while you’re on the stationary bicycle. Maybe your heart rate will go up a bit?
Fine, I did a bit of work on my stuff tonight. I had a PCB from the treadmill I junked that's actually a 2 channel audio amplifier and 2 small speakers. I wired that up and did some minimal testing tonight using my signal generator. I need to get an antenna setup together, but I think I'm just about ready. I need to wind a balun for the antenna, I probably want to do an EFHW and use the pair of inverted Vs I have as well. I need to put batteries in the Antuino and tune it up too. Maybe I should this weekend if I'm not doing everything else on the planet.
Got my Baofeng uv-5r in the mail about a month ago just for shits and giggles to monitor some local frequencies, probably going to get a decent radio and my license shortly just for shits too.
That’s all I’m using, EFHW, 132’. Matching end at 26’, other at 10’. Gives me 80-10m at 3:1 or less. Have an external tuner to match impedance down at 160m.
Would like to do an inverted V, but nothing to support the middle, and no way to get the coax from center point into house.
Since pretty much all local agencies went to Starcom21, program in ISPERN (155.475 MHz). You might be able to hear some of the traffic out by you.
For the lowest level license (Tech), grab the ARRL study guide, if you want to learn it. Or, if you just want to cram questions and answers, HamStudy.org.
I listen to KENCOM which pretty much is all the agencies surrounding me. Oswego Yorkville Plano Montomery. 453.575 and 453.475.
With my base antenna I can hear ISPERN all the way into Chicago. Really fun when ISP Chopper 1 is giving play-by-play. I can hear them all the way to the IL/IN border.
Throw in 462.600 and 462.700. They’re the repeater outputs for GMRS, and 600 is both Crete and Kane County. 700 is Grundy County, out in Morris. Both Crete and Grundy and linked to the Midwest GMRS network, which covers most of IL and IN.
Kane is standalone, but also tied into Kane County EMS.
Throw in 462.600 and 462.700. They’re the repeater outputs for GMRS, and 600 is both Crete and Kane County. 700 is Grundy County, out in Morris. Both Crete and Grundy and linked to the Midwest GMRS network, which covers most of IL and IN.
Kane is standalone, but also tied into Kane County EMS.
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