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So I'm a bit of a newbie here, but if one has a VX-8(D)R and one does the extended TX mod, can one then talk on marine frequencies with the radio? Obviously to be legal you'd have to be on the water, but for a HAM that does some boating this could make life a lot easier. I've been avoiding the...

My installation pics are here. Enjoy. --Donnie

Well, one thing I noticed is that the 8R and 8DR both took a while to actually start sending for some reason. Like needed to be turned on 30 minutes to an hour. I can't explain it, but both my radios just eventually started working. After that, they didn't need the warm up time. *shrug*...

How do you know you're near a working digipeater? You may not be near enough to one. The closest one to me is 10 miles away but only seems to receive signal if I'm within one mile of it. It's on a tiny tower and apparently has a less than stellar antenna. *shrug* It's not like we have...

Isn't the point of the SSID so that you CAN differentiate between YOUR different "stations"? Ie. so you can set your HT to 7 and your mobile rig to 9 and your internet "station" to 10. So then you'd be logged into findu as callsign-10 and send your message to callsign-7 and vice versa. Have...

I thought it would be weird, too, but honestly it turns out it works just fine. It's SOLID on there and hasn't once posed a problem. It is a little annoying to take off to program, but even that isn't *bad*. I'd bet it picks up satellites better than the way it's further embedded in the 8G...

Okay, glad it's working. From what I can tell on your WiRES key, you shouldn't need to "set it back." When you're in one of the APRS screens, pressing that button *should* manually send your beacon. If you don't have GPS lock (or have a GPS position programmed with manual selected), it'll...

Not sure on 1, can look into that more later tonight. On 2, what do you have APRS menu option 14 set to? Should be "Auto." As for 3, yes, it will still auto-send even if you have A active on a repeater instead. Mine does, and thus if you are listening to someone talking, you WILL have...

Arrrrgh! n1plh was right. Somehow I had Menu 21 on a fixed position through all that. Changed it to GPS and all was good. And no, I'm not so stupid as to think the fixed position SHOULD have worked, I just overlooked that one. I generally keep it on "GPS" but I had set it to a location...

My cable showed up today from Gigaparts.com, so apparently they are now available. --Donnie

Love the sig. I'm a big REK fan. :) I get what you're saying, and I suppose it's possible, but the 8R isn't that old and they added all this SmartBeaconing stuff to the DR (and the accompanying manual) so it's not *that* likely that it's that far off, I wouldn't think. Of course, stranger...

Don't worry, I will. But in all honesty, I don't even think the upgrade is worth the $60. I've been using the 8R for a few weeks now and do really like the radio. I have NOT been using the DR much because I'm VERY lazy and have no way to program it with the PC. There is no kit from RT yet...

Okay, I'm sure it is. But the problem is I can't turn it on! Seriously. I've gone through the manual step-by-step. But in the menu option where you should be able to rotate the dial between Auto, Manual, and Smart, I only have Auto and Manual options. If I go to the station list and hit...

Yes it does, which is another nice feature. Most will want the mic plugged into the control face when the two are separate. I, however, plan to put the display up on the roof of my Jeep (which is converted to a pickup truck with a custom hard top) and will have the main box just behind me...

Happy_Hamer, that procedure you described is for orienting an electronic COMPASS sensor, not for a GPS. Some nav systems do have an internal compass sensor and use data from both to help with things, but in general you only need a GPS for that functionality. If you have one of those compasses...

Yeah, thanks for that review. Awesome work. My GPS and accessories should show tomorrow. Like you, I wish it would function as a Digipeater. And like others, I wish the VX-8 line could control it remotely. That would be awesome. I'm also bummed the VX-8's don't have that same option to...

So just so I'm straight, to cross band repeat APRS, I'd simply follow your instructions above and set one side to 144.390 and set the other side so some reasonable 70cm frequency (would need to research that, but I'm sure I can figure it out). Then I'd just set my APRS frequency on my HT to the...

Hmm, good info. Now the question is whether the hack attempt is worth the time. And on the cross band repeat question: Which leads me to another question. Should I get a multi-band antenna (the Larsen NMO2/70BK seems the one to get, though I can't seem to find them in stock online) or...

Awesome work, moleculo. My FTM-350R is sitting beside me awaiting some other bits for installation. I'm curious about the GPS side of things. Looks like the ONLY way to feed it a GPS signal is via the Yaesu GPS modules (FGPS-1 or FGPS-2). Is that correct? I'm planning to put mine in a...