I'm pretty sure that most all gear made for amateur service has not been
type-accepted by the FCC for use on Part 90 frequencies, therefore making
use of ham gear in business/commercial VHF/UHF bands illegal.
If it's going to be used for commercial purposes, plan to buy commercial
grade
And here I thought this was a place where I could go and not worry about
bigotry (at least with exception to all the Moto fans out here) and racism
clogging up the tubes.
Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Fuggitaboutit mikew...@hotmail.com wrote:
Megga dittos
It's kinda hard to
He probably filed the forms for a 'vanity' call sign.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ (licensed in Tennessee, living in SoCal...)
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM, La Rue Communications
laruec...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks Doug! Yes, I do also post on AR902 list, I am one and the same.
My boss, Knox got lucky
You can pick up programmed UHF Desktracs on ebay for ~150, programmed. Like
Joe said, Desktracs are not high-duty cycle repeaters (not good for Ham
Radio) , as well they are not NB capable so commercial uses are about out.
I sold my two for $100 each, unprogrammed.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Sun, Aug
Please note that we are not allowed (i.e. it's illegal) to modify our Part
97 Amateur radios to transmit in any other service. We can bring Part 90
and 95 radios into Part 97, but not the other way around.
-Brian
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:29 AM, cmr359 cmr...@yahoo.com wrote:
Most lmr
You'll get a paper license in the mail 1-3 weeks after filing for the
license. That license will have your call sign on it.
Welcome to the service.
-Brian
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:52 AM, ZPO geekdownra...@gmail.com wrote:
I got mine in the mail.
-BDH
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:06
Thank you Steven for showing me something that I already know...
-Brian
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Steven M Hodell st...@shodell.net wrote:
ULS License
General Mobile Radio (GMRS) License - WQHI739 - Raker, Brian
- Original Message -
From: Brian Raker
To: Repeater-Builder
GP300/GP350 are some of the best radios I've used for UHF Ham / GMRS.
eBay is your friend; just make sure you know what you're in for.
-BR
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Chris Carruba chris.carr...@yahoo.comwrote:
google is your friend...
Best Regards,
Chris Carruba
Co-Admin
Er, should say Motorola GP300/GP350.
-BR
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Brian Raker brian.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
GP300/GP350 are some of the best radios I've used for UHF Ham / GMRS.
eBay is your friend; just make sure you know what you're in for.
-BR
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:16 AM
Brian,
I will contact you off list re: a repeater I have that would fit your bill
perfectly.
-Brian
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Brian ke7...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Yes, I do, but I need one in a different location. There are allot of hiss
around here.
- Original Message -
§97.111 Authorized transmissions.
(a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way
communications:
...
(3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in another
FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;
Yes, we are allowed to do so only
I'm seeing it as well, 3.6.2. It is the 'protection' screen that is built
into Firefox, and not for any AV or firewall programs.
Seems its chief complaint is:
*What happened when Google visited this site?*
Of the 3 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s)
resulted in
There's a reason why I keep my decrepit Toshiba T2450 ;) 486DX2/50
with 4 MB memory and a 2gb CF card plugged into the harddrive slot.
Programs any (/\/\) I throw at it that uses RSS.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Yahoo ya...@icsradio.com wrote:
I use a bootable thumb drive
If you search with Google, you can find the full PDF.
-BR
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com wrote:
On 3/12/2010 1:46 PM, MCH wrote:
Great info.
I assume that users are shut off via a 'kill code' to the radio since
the repeater cannot be used to allow
The Motorola docs have likely been updated for the recently announced
MTR3000 and the MTR2000 upgrade, as well as the new XPR8380 800MHz
repeater.
-Brian
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM, nj902 wb0...@arrl.net wrote:
The current version of the Planner document discusses the Capacity Plus
You do have to program it to use a set frequency pair, just like any
other repeater.
-BR
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:53 PM, MCH m...@nb.net wrote:
So if there are two TRBO repeaters in the same area, there is no way to
keep them both from being active and interfering with each other? That
Of course, hidden in this PR boasting MotoTRBO is our long-awaited
upgrade for the MTR2000. But wait, it's not for P25 compatibility,
but to TRBO compatibility.
*sighs deeply*
-BR
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Brian Raker brian.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
Motorola Announces Industry Leading
Motorola Announces Industry Leading Capabilities for MOTOTRBO™
Professional Digital Two-way Radio System
Transmit Interrupt Suite, 800/900 MHz Portables and Mobiles, New Base
Stations/Repeaters Help Users Achieve New Levels of Efficiency and
Worker Safety
March 10, 2010
LAS VEGAS – March 10,
So... is anyone gonna buy one of these things to see just what kind of
interference it will actually make in the 70cm band? 1 watt max and .25
watt nominal is enough to key up a poorly tuned and set up nearby repeater
or a distant sensitively configured repeater, and enough to produce decent
QRM
? Just go and turn on your PL... come on! Lets use the technology
that we claim we know so well...
- Original Message -
*From:* Brian Raker brian.ra...@gmail.com
*To:* Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:51 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Repeater-Builder] Fw
Actually, RP-type (RP-SMA, RP-TNC, etc.) connectors are very easily
available to the general public.
wlan-parts.com
oddcables.com
etc, etc, etc.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Glenn Little WB4UIV
glennmaill...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Reverse threaded connectors are used to get a
Telewave Wireless will set you up with a 4-channel 450MHz 150 watt low-loss
combiner for ~8k.
http://www.telewave.com/pricelist/106-450combiners.html
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM, k7...@skybeam.com wrote:
We use many ham and commercial repeaters using the same antennas,
I'd recommend joining a club that has a repeater and let them know you
are interested in learning how their repeater works. You'll learn a
lot easier from an elmer in person than reading the materials on
RB-Tip (even though it is an excellent source for more advanced
topics).
my 2c.
-Brian /
http://batlabs.com/gm300.html#model
Should take care of ya!
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Joe k1ike_m...@snet.net wrote:
I have 2 GM300 radios, both are model M34GMC09C3. As far as I can tell
they are 25 watt UHF narrow band radios. Is there a lookup table
someplace for
JT:
Batlabs has some information on converting GTX / LCS 2000 units into
900mhz Ham use, but your model number doesn't match anything that
batlabs offers for conversion information.
http://www.batlabs.com/gtx.html
On second look, your M10 is a 800mhz unit. No Ham radio bands there.
I'd look
A Chatsworth cabinet with doors (and proper ventilation) will, however :P
-Brian
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Kris Kirby k...@catonic.us wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Nate Duehr wrote:
All of our MASTR II's are racked in nice new non-GE cabinets at most
of the club sites, and no one thinks
I seriously doubt that you can get cellular service for cheaper than
you can get Life-Line service from Ma Bell...
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:22 PM, JOHN jfalbri...@verizon.net wrote:
After reading the subject you probably realized I know nothing about
repeaters. Our club has an issue with the
Are you certain that the smart power meters are BPL? Things I've been
reading is that they are mesh-based in the Part 15 900MHz ISM band.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Kris Kirby k...@catonic.us wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Eric Lemmon wrote:
It's quite simple: when the
Just FYI, if you're not familiar, the utilities (PGE and SDGE come
to mind) can remotely turn off complete circuits, and have had this
ability through SCADA for years and years. They are just now getting
to the point where they have the resources and capability to do this
for each end user.
The 892x had a 100w RX option if I remember correctly. Though, most
of the units you'll find (and the cheapest) will be 2.5w, especially
as CDMA-based cellphone development is starting to wind down in favor
of W-CDMA and LTE.
-Brian
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jeff DePolo
You forgot about EF Johnson and Harris... or are they sacrilegious? :P
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Paul Plack pl...@xmission.com wrote:
Guys, please...the only sanctioned religious discussion on this board is
Motorola vs GE.
73,
Paul, AE4KR
MTR2000, like Mike suggested. Solid state, ~4 inches tall by 12 deep by 19
wide (3Us of rackspace). These repeaters are tanks and can handle 100% duty
cycle and ask for more.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Barry ate...@hotmail.com wrote:
I am looking for some micor
Well, the MTR2000 in VHF came primarily in two flavors, 132-174 MHz 40
watt, and 150-174 MHz 100 watt. The 150-174 MHz 100 watt unit will
not tune down to 2 meter ham frequencies.
The easy way to tell the two apart is looking for fans on the PA and
power supply. If you have fans, you have a 100
Not if it's a 150-172 MHz / 100W unit, nope.
-BR / KF4ZWZ
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:18 PM, NORM KNAPP nkn...@twowayradio.net wrote:
So, is there no way to fool the repeater or shoot different firmware into it
so it wIll take the 144-148mhz tx freqs?
- Original Message -
From:
At least you're more on the ball about taking care of spammers than other
yahoo! lists I'm on...
Thank you sir for the wonderful service.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Kevin Custer kug...@kuggie.com wrote:
Butch Kanvick wrote:
Dear friend,
Measures have been taken so
A man of few words is worth listening to. :)
-BR
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:42 PM, w6jk je...@lafn.org wrote:
My understanding is that his various addresses all dump into the same place.
When I asked about the lack of replies, he said that he didn't have anything
to say. [shrug]
Jeff W6JK
Get a good notch filter on the link radio, that should take care of you.
-BR/KF4ZWZ
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, kerinvale kerin...@pacific.net.au wrote:
Hi guys.I would like to throw a interesting question to the forum.I have
several uhf repeaters with links to our central hub .
Two antennas on 2-meter isn't exactly doable, the vertical and horizontal
spacing issues would make it prohibitively undoable for a mobile repeater
platform.
You might find a mobile duplexer with 1.2mhz spacing (I remember someone
here on RB talking about such a unit some time ago), but like
Actually, this is how I've been taught by several RF engineers to seal
outdoor connections... a layer of Super 88, then linerless splicing
tape (about 1/2~1 inch longer than the 88 layer), then a second layer
of Super 88 (about 1~2 inches longer than the splicing tape layer).
Seals up the
Not this again... sheesh.
-Brian
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:27 PM, WA3GINwa3...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm not aware of any closed repeaters in the WDC area. In the VA-Md-DC area
perhaps a half dozen noted as (c) by T-MARC. There are dozens of repeaters
in the WDC area that go unused day after
The radio can be programmed for multiple frequency pairs. That being
said, it cannot operate more than one channel / programmed pair of
frequencies at one time.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Christopher
Hodgdonchris.hodg...@kaufman-ares.org wrote:
This is a question I have
.
No problem!
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Brian Raker brian.ra...@... wrote:
The radio can be programmed for multiple frequency pairs. That being
said, it cannot operate more than one channel / programmed pair of
frequencies at one time.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
In Southern California under SCRRBA, we're already semi-narrowbanding
in the 70cm / 440mHz band to 20kHz per channel/frequency.
IIRC, FRS and by extension GMRS is already 12.5kHz.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:36 PM, N9WYSn9...@ameritech.net wrote:
Albert,
This depends on the service. Public
On the Motorola side for FPP, you'd pretty much be limited to HT1550
(bling, hard to find used, need fpp battery) or JT1000 (hard to find
as well, need FPP key/dongle).
The Icom IC-F40GT was rumored to have FPP, but I've not seen a valid
example surface (and all the tricks I have seen, I've tried
, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM, ve2pfve...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Brian Raker brian.ra...@... wrote:
I've got two UHF DeskTracs as well that I would like to push into
service. I'll take a look at MotoOnline and see if they still have
documentation in print.
-Brian
I've got two UHF DeskTracs as well that I would like to push into
service. I'll take a look at MotoOnline and see if they still have
documentation in print.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, ve2pfve...@yahoo.com wrote:
We have a desktrack that is allready used at our club for
Motorola DeskTrac Service Manual, still in print. $77 from Motorola
Online. P/N 6802993G65.
Also, RB-Tip has information about the pinouts on the DB25 connectors
on the back.
Hope this helps!
-Brian / KF4zwz
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Brian Rakerbrian.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
I've got
From my bit of dirt digging (old Kroger locations, and charter schools
called Focus Learning Academy; all on Google), this is what I've
found:
FOCUS Learning Academy
2524 West Ledbetter Drive
Dallas, TX 75233
http://www.focusacademy.org/Contact.htm
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:59
I use an ancient Toshiba T2140, 486DX4/75 and a CompactFlash harddrive
adaptor, because I can't find 2gb drives anymore. Loaded up FreeDOS
and I can work on my Moto GP300/350 and GM300 radios without any
issue. For my Moto MTR2000 repeater and Icom IC-F40G HTs, I use a
ThinkPad 600x running
Home Office Fax
303-718-8052 Cellular
From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Raker
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Noise on UHF - (Mototrbo)
This gives
This gives me pause about putting up my MTR2000 in San Diego.
-Brian Raker
-KF4ZWZ
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Mike Mullarkey k7...@comcast.net wrote:
When they are using digital they are 6.25 KHz up and down of the center
frequency. Here in Denver I did a test with 464.550 the worst
You make it sound worse than the 40,000-some 12-25 year olds that I
help 'babysit' each year for a popular Japanese Animation
convention...
One would think with age comes maturity; in your example it begs to differ.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:48 AM, wd8chl wd8...@gmail.com wrote:
As long as the presentation is good (i.e. good/proper cabling, neatly
organized, etc) it really shouldn't matter whether the lessee is using
mobiles (like I do in my CDR500 [two CDM750s and duplexers in a steel
box] or a full-out purpose-built repeater system (like an MTR2000,
Quantar or whatnot).
Either that or talk with your tower owner and let them know that this
tennant may need to run shielded cat5 cable up the tower, as it is
providing interference with your equipment.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Barry ate...@hotmail.com wrote:
Run a sniffer over the cat5e , I suspect there
This was mentioned before, and seems to work very well. Go Go Canadians!
http://lrcov.crc.ca/cov.php?lang=en
Completely web-based, and integrated with Google's Maps service and
terrain information.
Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Mark n9...@ameritech.net wrote:
Scott,
One voter-based network I used to use back in Tennessee used a
low-volume CW ID at the beginning of a transmission for the remote TX
stations. I believe this would satisfy the FCC ID needs.
YMMV, IANAL, and all that stuff.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, John Transue
I recently had to dig up an old Toshiba Satellite Pro T2150CDT
(486DX4-75) for use with Moto RSS programs. I use my ThinkPad 600x
(P3-600) w/ XP SP3 for Moto CPS and Icom CS software. The ThinkPad
was too fast to work with RSS; it could never communicate with the RIB
or with RIBless cables. I
Apparently this was posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew on 1 April
2009 citing a source of the Los Angeles Press-Telegram.
After asking my press contact in LA, he said there is no such outlet
by the name of Los Angeles Press-Telegram.
Google Newsgroups source:
Hi All,
I've recently acquired a CDR500 repeater and I'm in the process of
checking it out and making sure that everything works as best as I can
tell before reprogramming and repurposing it. However, I seem to have
run into a snag.
The unit has two CDM750 403-470 4-channel radios, a 6-well
. Now when you plug in the unit the radios will power on.
Good Luck
Milt
N3LTQ
- Original Message -
From: Brian Raker brian.ra...@gmail.com mailto:brian.raker%40gmail.com
To: repeater-builder repeater-builder@yahoogroups.com
mailto:repeater-builder%40yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday
I have a 403~470 Desktrac repeater (two radios) with duplexer that I
could be convinced to part with, if this matches your needs.
Contact me off list if interested.
-Brian / KF4ZWZ
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Mark n9...@ameritech.net wrote:
Probably not without adding a LOT of components
Didn't Radio Shack used to carry tools for making the crimp connections?
Ah yes, here ya go, should do the trick... 276-1595, available at most stores.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103683
Or you could go like what others have recommended, and see if you can
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