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Rail Riding Radio

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In 2011, I became curious as to how an HF station might operate from a moving passenger train. Many ham operators design and test their equipment to operate in harsh emergency conditions. Those operating conditions are never the same and never predictable. Operating “railroad mobile” would be another opportunity to adapt HF gear to an environment that was certainly not designed with long range ...





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A caboose HF station would be cool. Sadly, no more cabooses. My neighbor is an engineer for Conrail. Says anything but company radios is a no no.
 
That is an interesting question. I know they allow amateurs to operate on cruise ships. Airplanes, no. Trains? After reading the article, it appears to be yes. I have a friend that works for BNSF... I may ask him what the regs are on this. Could be a fun outing for our local club, as the Tarantula runs back and forth from Dallas to Fort Worth daily.

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Brett
 

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    Hello gentlemen and Ladies. I have the dreaded RCI-2990 receive issue where my radio gets distorted when people get close to my location. I found the C90 Capacitor, but I can not for the life of me find the C89 capacitor. Can or does anyone have a picture of the exact location of C89 ? Thank you in advance, Wes
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