Re: [BVARC] Emergency preparness

2024-05-22 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Here is a link to the event we are holding tomorrow for BLUETTI. Going to have drinks and you can get to know Julio who can do mobile radio installations as well. We will be selling these select units, and *we will even pay for the sales tax*. We really want to get as many of our units into the

Re: [BVARC] Emergency preparness

2024-05-22 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
I got some BLUETTI portable units coming down from my warehouse in Dallas today. Donating a lot of them to the Salvation Army, and trying to get them in the hands of anyone that wants to buy a unit at cost. It is mainly our smaller units 300-2000wh batteries and 200 watt panels. If you know

Re: [BVARC] Fwd: Fw: A Heavy Sad Heart

2024-04-25 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
I wonder why he didn’t sell it off. Valuable brand names at least. Could have sold it 20 years ago and been retired this whole time. Oh well. Brian Shircliffe - *832-452-9868* On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 4:29 PM K5BOU via BVARC wrote: > > > > > > > > [image: image001.png] > >

Re: [BVARC] Forrest Mims III new book

2023-08-26 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Probably a really great book he’s lived a very interesting life. I’m friends with his organist uncle here in Houston George Mims, and have gotten to talk to Forrest a few times. Really smart guy, and kind of a rebel too. I found out I grew up in the same neighborhood he lived growing up. What

Re: [BVARC] linux

2023-06-07 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Something like this? https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-Mega-Audio-File-logging/ On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:58 PM timothy sloan via BVARC wrote: > Hey Robert., > How are you? Hope you are doing good. > Have you looked at my Icom 718? > > Respectfully yours, > Tim Sloan N5JRY > Patrick in

Re: [BVARC] Repeater

2023-03-11 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
I still remember Saturday Feb 1, 2003 like yesterday. Listening early in the morning getting ready to take my brother to take his ham test. Listening to the NASA feed and feeling very confused at first and then realizing what was happening I ran to my television to turn on the news. I suppose the

Re: [BVARC] Badges - Ham Radio

2023-02-27 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
That’s great! Thanks for the heads up. On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 8:40 PM Eddie Runner via BVARC wrote: > > If you do not already have your ham radio callsign badge, > the best badge maker I know of will be at the Greater Houston HamFest > this weekend.. > > The Signman can make your badge for

Re: [BVARC] houston ham radio supply

2023-02-22 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Wasn’t that the store up on Spring Cypress? On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:42 PM Bruce via BVARC wrote: > Dave is a member of TEAC up here in the Kingwood area. He was at last > year's hamfest. His email is n5...@n5kwd.com > > 73...bruce > > > On 2/22/2023 10:31 AM, Vern Six via BVARC wrote: > >

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

2023-02-16 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Here is another website to track all of the pico balloons. https://nibbb.org/links-to-locate-and-track/ On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 4:14 PM Brian Shircliffe wrote: > They sure did. Here is a link to a website where you can track the > balloon. > > http://wspr.rocks/ > > Just type in K9YO and do a

Re: [BVARC] The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada

2023-02-16 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
They sure did. Here is a link to a website where you can track the balloon. http://wspr.rocks/ Just type in K9YO and do a search for the last week then the map button to see its last known transmissions. It was using 20m and maybe 5 watts but I bet it was more like .5 watts. On Thu, Feb 16,

Re: [BVARC] Fw: Stolen Radios in Tyler County

2022-12-07 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Sad. Hopefully they try to sell It at a pawn shop and get busted. On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 6:41 PM Mike Hardwick via BVARC wrote: > > Just thought I would pass this information just in case the equipment > heads to Houston. > > Mike > N5VCX > > -- > From:

Re: [BVARC] Wanted: 10 meter dipole antenna

2022-10-15 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Thank you so so so much for this link On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 2:32 PM Marvin Suggs via BVARC wrote: > Wanted 10 meter dipole with 50' coax, balan, ropes and insulators. Thank > you. > > On Oct 14, 2022 9:16 PM, Rick Hiller via BVARC wrote: > > > Last night during Bob Heil's presentation he

Re: [BVARC] soliciting advertisers for the newsletter

2022-10-10 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
I’ll put an ad in there. Maybe just a business card this month and I’ll make a bigger 1/2 page one for the next month after. What do I need to do? On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:28 PM Eddie Runner via BVARC wrote: > This latest newsletter has one new business card size add.. > > Recently we have

Re: [BVARC] Genset Service?

2022-10-07 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
If you find them expensive to repair, you might wanna swing by Harbor Freight. Their Predator inverter generators are very good for the price. Comparable to your Hondas but maybe a third the price. On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 9:33 PM DAVID ELY via BVARC wrote: > There is a lawn mower repair shop on

Re: [BVARC] ethernet question

2022-09-18 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Since we are on the subject. Does anyone have an opinion on shielded Ethernet vs not shielded? I used to be a small voltage tech for the cable company and I did a lot of cat5-6 installs for other jobs and almost never used shielded Ethernet. I’ve been told that it doesn’t matter but I’m having

Re: [BVARC] river Oaks Car Stereo

2022-07-28 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
These guys are great. I pulled in while Harvey was about to roll into town and I got a car antenna mount from them And they even installed it for me just as they were closing up shop for the storm! I havnt been in there in a while but it reminds me of the CB shops that use to be around back in

Re: [BVARC] CQ POTA 7.256

2022-07-17 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Just checked and it looks like 40meters should work for NVID today but just barely. On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:30 PM Michael Giannaccio via BVARC < bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > I was having a harder time than normal with the local stations in the > Houston area. I picked up one station in Manvel

Re: [BVARC] Magnet wire & Q

2022-07-03 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
What is the difference in cost? I assume the larger the diameter of the wire the safer. 450watts is quite a lot of power. I wouldn’t cheap out on the coil. On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:48 PM JP Pritchard via BVARC wrote: > Sounds like an ideal inverted V. Thanks for the formula. > > On

Re: [BVARC] RFI from solar inverter

2022-06-15 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
Thanks for the link! If anyone has any solar related questions and especially how it pertains to amateur radio I would like to throw my name out there. I’m Brian “the Houston Solar Guy” (AD5OS) and my wife Tori help homeowners go solar through our organization. When I went solar my main concern

Re: [BVARC] Portable Generators Fw: Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday

2022-04-22 Thread Brian Shircliffe via BVARC
If anyone is looking at a whole home backup generator, I have them in stock. My wife and I own a solar company in Rosenberg. We've been installing solar and batteries and we have our own system as well. Really great for emergency situations. But I can also pair solar with a whole home 22kW