[Repeater-Builder] Re: Fw: DON'T BUY IT AND DON'T USE IT !!!------READ IT ..I cant ,I got a burka !

2010-08-24 Thread Fuggitaboutit
Megga dittos It's kinda hard to use a computer or a radio when you got a bag on your head . That' if you still have one! Subject: Fw: DON'T BUY IT AND DON'T USE IT !!!--READ IT   DON'T BUY IT AND DON'T USE IT! Apparently they think that putting hearts and butterflies on the new

[Repeater-Builder] Re: HP3551A Service manual

2010-08-07 Thread Fuggitaboutit
http://www.hparchive.com/Bench_Briefs/HP-Bench-Briefs-1980-07-08.pdf bulletin from hp says the product may have had incorrect line fuse if you want to fix it take the cover off and check some basics many of the hp test equipment of this vintage needed power supply caps --- In

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Measure return loss and cable fault with HP 8924C

2010-07-28 Thread Fuggitaboutit
mfj 259 --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Dickson dicksonf...@... wrote: Hi all, Without the RF Tools provided by 11807E opt 100 on HP 8924C, how to measure return loss and cable fault? The 11807E opt 100 provides the IBASIC program that can show the return loss profile over

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Base station coax connector weatherproofing recommendations?

2010-07-28 Thread Fuggitaboutit
I would buy a bunch of those vinyl boots that look like strain reliefs its really more of a cb product for 8u --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Tony tonyn2...@... wrote: I was taught by an old ham who did a lot of commercial installations the following. His advice was to use good

[Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS License Help

2010-07-28 Thread Fuggitaboutit
we are hearing that the fcc is going to limit output power to 2 watts in the gmrs service that would preclude all repeaters and implies handheld use only --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Andy agrimm0...@... wrote: I just applied for my GMRS license yesturday evening. I got a

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-28 Thread Fuggitaboutit
be real careful on ebay especially stuff rom china the shipping is expensive ebay has changed dramatically since the 90s it used to fun now its a bunch of morons who take radios apart and sell the parts i keep emailing them asking them how much the whole radio costs i recently emailed

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Anyone get RSS for MT1000 to run on a Dell M70 in DOS?

2010-03-28 Thread Fuggitaboutit
there was all this talk about the old uarts in the older machines which i dont really believe if you can get the sofare to run in a dos box then great it wouldnt matter how new the machine hardware software is the spectra radio here works but the grief i would have to go through to get the

[Repeater-Builder] if you have a commercial licenses check it on the fcc site

2010-03-28 Thread Fuggitaboutit
many people dont realize that the fcc has never put your old grol (ie) on the new FCC data base that was started in the late 90s it seems that if you had a grol before 1998 or thereabouts ( the inception of the fcc online data base), then your license may not be in the database forget trying to

[Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: If you are a Windows XP or 2000 user you might find this interesting...

2010-03-15 Thread Fuggitaboutit
maybe the difference in unformatted and formated is the difference the current size is 512 byte sectors ? what is ntfs format compared to ? certainly the ram drives would need some kind of emulation or a whole new operating system DRAM based solid-state drives are especially useful on computers

[Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: If you are a Windows XP or 2000 user you might find this interesting...

2010-03-14 Thread Fuggitaboutit
good article kudos for that people are dropping 400 dollars for the solid state drives needless to say vista is nanny software at the point where xp 32 or 64 becomes more trouble than it is worth that will be the point where i buy new hardware and a new op its amazing how many people have

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Fw: FCC RO Involving the Amateur 70cm Band

2010-03-10 Thread Fuggitaboutit
i picked your reply to keep the topic going atv down here in florida in the space coast has been chased off up to 900 mhz there is a real good reason for this the destruct sequencer uses freqs below the amateur bands on uhf the mars probes and oher deep space projects also use uhf 431mhz? for

[Repeater-Builder] spectra 900 mhz radio looking for feedback

2010-03-10 Thread Fuggitaboutit
im not gonna bother with it i got it to the point where it needs programming but cant be bothered with it its too old after checking with batlabs , i just havent found a good feel for another brand I would drop the money for a kenwood tk981 anyone use this radio ? thanks for your opinions i

[Repeater-Builder] 900 meg Spectra radio

2010-02-27 Thread Fuggitaboutit
Ya, I bought the cable from ebay and I had an old laptop. I've walked past this stuff for years at hamfests and heard the horror stories. Motorola did everything they could to make this radio proprietary ..like everything else. I even replaced the display caps and some on the audio. blah blah