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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Two nets tonight, 11/19 in the group
General 2 months agoI’ve been monitoring both .805 and .865 between 7:30 and now ( 8:05 ) but haven’t picked up any traffic. I happen to be in Belmont. I have participated in the sherrif’s net on the .865, and will ask tomorrow […]
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Casey, KA5WAX edited the forum topic A little radio fun from Maker Faire NYC in the group
General 3 months, 3 weeks agoHi folks, I’m back from Maker Faire NYC.
I thought you might get a chuckle at the visual traffic indicators in our Dispatch office.
I’m not sure how just to do an image link in this forum, so I’ve […]
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Minutes General Meeting, September 15, 2018 in the group
General 4 months, 1 week agoWill J., let me know if you would like a hand with the PVC structure. I’m out of area until the 26th.
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic EmergenCell for emergency situations in the group
General 5 months, 1 week agothere are two authN/Z techniques for getting random cell phones to fail over to this type of service, and one requires a ‘wee bit of back-haul.’ ( tl;dr: they chose the ‘wee bit of back haul’ – you can read […]
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Butano Training, 3rd party traffic, mini-net? in the group
General 5 months, 1 week agoAll good, publicly made points. Nicely done all!
( Did you see where I’ve started disabling VHF transmissions? )
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Butano Training, 3rd party traffic, mini-net? in the group
General 5 months, 2 weeks agoAs another data point when I’ve been extending Peter’s original programming for the Butano BF radios I’ve been disabling VHF transmission capability on a case-by-case basis.
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Butano Training, 3rd party traffic, mini-net? in the group
General 5 months, 2 weeks agoDavid, gotcha. looks like someone would have to be manning the controls at / for the repeater for there to be a ‘license-pass-through’ as it were. the discussion wobbles all over the place where I’ve looked on […]
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Casey, KA5WAX started the forum topic Butano Training, 3rd party traffic, mini-net? in the group
General 5 months, 2 weeks agoHi folks,
This evening ( Aug 9 ) I am giving what I think you folks call ‘a practical’ down in Butano Canyon to a subset of our CERT crew. It will be strangely similar to the one hosted at the HMB Police […]
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Casey, KA5WAX started the forum topic EmergenCell for emergency situations in the group
General 6 months agoHi Folks,
This may be anathema here, but I bet the emergency-response side makes it an acceptable post. and it’s still a radio. sortakinda
http://emergencell.cs.washington.edu/specs.html
my wife’s crew […]
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic "Yellow Command" exercise, Th. 9/6 in the group
General 6 months agoI am happy to shadow / help out at a station.
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic PAFF sign ups – 8/18-19 in the group
General 6 months agoI’ll can help out on the Saturday morning shift too.
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic July 9, 2018 Net in the group
General 6 months agoClearly your collective advice helped a great deal this Monday past.
Thanks!
I skipped the coax and just used a little cat-tail to the DBJ-2. Only walked out with one HT soas not to be tempted to […]
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Trailer Power! in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agoThanks Mike! I’ll roll it into another role. I am not sure I’ll run across a 12V UPS, but I will keep my eyes open.
Is there a write up / schematic somewhere in the Library describing the Trailer’s power? […]
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic July 9, 2018 Net in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agoI should of spelled out my experiment.
I was using 2 Yeasu HT VX-6 radios, one with an Ed Fong DJB-2 ( picked up in sunnyvale from Ed Fong himself; interesting ) and another with a Diamond SRH320A.
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic July 9, 2018 Net in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agoThanks David ; I think I did hear part of your reply ( I think you said “loud and clear.” )
I was also stepping all over some kind of Sonoma County Net from my location with that test, as it turned out, and […]
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Casey, KA5WAX started the forum topic July 9, 2018 Net in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agoHi squad,
I tried to join th net from the outer fringes of those heatmaps in the library – Sheep Trail above 280 in Belmont. Sorry if I stepped on anyone by trying to call-in; the reception with my circus of gear […] -
Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Trailer Power! in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agoBack at it; I had the APC up at Field Day but there was such a commootion aboot that I didn’t want to bring up another distraction.
I have since re-attached the leads and fired up the one I didn’t trade-out. […]
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Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Industrial power supplies for mobile units in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agoI’m pretty good w/Mean Well actual specs per se. One can just navigate their spec matix up the amperage vector.
The missing ‘actual specs’ for these things are those about incidental RF emissions.
How do […]
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Casey, KA5WAX started the forum topic Industrial power supplies for mobile units in the group
General 6 months, 2 weeks agohello Radio Illuminati!
I am considering using a Mean Well closed-frame powersupply, such as one would find in all sorts of industrial equipment, to power a mobile unit while it’s… hmm immobile. One of their […]
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Casey, KA5WAX posted a new activity comment 6 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: Casey, KA5WAX replied to the forum topic Field Day in the group General Hey there, Jeneen, would you rather I bring them over ‘here?’ it’s no big deal.
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