Recent content by kf7qzc

Congrats dude!

Am I right that this works best with HTs that have A and B PTT keys? I have a couple that do, but it seems like you set one VFO to transmit and another to receive, then adjust the receive channel on VFO A while transmitting on VFO B. Or do many radios permit transmitting on VHF while listening...

I mean, I'm just gonna pretend there isn't a web project I'm supposed to have been working on since 2022… We appreciate what you do Moleculo, I realize tone of voice doesn't come across in text and rereading my own post it's not clear that was not meant seriously. (But we would seriously...

I understand the rules, and I'd like to enter the drawing! And thanks Retevis!

I have large fingers and I don't want to keep track of a spudger to change repeaters. Knobs are fine. However it gets done, it looks like three solder points plus power. If I have the device (or a reasonable facsimile using modern components) in hand, it sounds like the installation isn't...

I was 28 when I attended the Colorado Center for the Blind, and I could not read Braille. I've got some vision, after all, I was raised to be "partially sighted" and read print only, etc. Braille, too, is a code, and I became proficient in that. I lost part of the skill because as a grad student...

Will do! It's interesting that these things have vertical radiation polarity when the slot isn't vertical, I'd love for someone who understands that to explain it someday, but I'll be building mine so it LOOKS like it should have vertical polarization anyway.

Thank you! That's exactly what I needed to know how this was done! Yeah, what I thought might make sense was to drill a hole in the chassis for an aviation connector and run wires to the correct places. Seems a resistor is also required for the com-spec box. I figure if that box isn't easy to...

Congratulations Crawdad!

Hi everyone! I got my hands on a Ranger RCI-2950 DX some years ago. I got it in pretty near factory condition except for a pretty easy and obvious mod … we don't talk about fight club, etc. It's been sitting in storage because what it doesn't have is a way to connect a CTCSS device installed...

(Should this have gone in the Antenna section? I put it in DIY because I plan to DIY and update y'all as I build it in the next few weeks when I get my hands on that NanoVNA…)

OMG I'm dying here… (Do they have an Icom Ambulance Gurney Radio?) Or do I have to get that from Yaesu?

Rules understood, please sign me up! Didn't think I was gonna have five posts to enter this, but hey… I'm actually interested in Retevis radios because they seem a bit nicer than the average e.g. Baofeng, with firmware updates and bugs fixed. So I'd be interested in trying one out. Bigger and...

Idea stage here… I posted elsewhere that I moved into a tall metal and glass tower with an HOA—no antennas at all! I … more or less intend to ignore them. The problem is the only way I can put an antenna on the balcony is if the (not sliding, very tight-fitting) balcony door is kept ajar, with...

Work faster, Moleculo! (I assume this link was fixed, but it's broken again, FWIW.) Virtual club seems interesting. Have folks involved been looking into digital or digital-connected ways for club members at various license levels to say hello to one another? The most I've played with this...