Re: [Repeater-Builder] Polyphaser Question

2010-08-17 Thread STeve Andre'
someplace? I need the protected end to be an N-female and the antenna end to be and N-Male. Suggestions? - Mike -- STeve Andre' Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] new member introduction

2010-08-15 Thread STeve Andre'
Help Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HamRadioHelpGroup/ - Military and Commercial Portable Radios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/milpack/ - Survival Communications http://groups.yahoo.com/group/survivalcomm/ -- STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 Disease Control Warden Dept

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Silver plating of cavities advice please?

2010-07-12 Thread STeve Andre'
and a silver dollar the rest is easy google is very useful by the way -- STeve Andre' Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a Crazy Thought

2010-02-11 Thread STeve Andre'
got most of the idea, though interference on 11m might be worse. Or has 11m usage dropped a lot because of cell phones? Me, I've never heard of one in operation. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Off topic ... a time for God

2009-11-21 Thread STeve Andre'
throat. I am not a Christian; I have never been--I was not raised as one, and I rather doubt that I will switch in this lifetime. So please take Jesus elsewhere and not a mailing list such as this. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] ACSSB

2009-11-12 Thread STeve Andre'
bands. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-17 Thread STeve Andre'
the issue of emergencies: someone in some kind of accident (think auto) who either got a damaged mic, or is injured themselves, trying to use the repeater. While not likely in either case, its very real for that person if it happens. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Heliax

2009-07-05 Thread STeve Andre'
to serious interested parties, but need to post with ebay be end of week if no one else is interested. The place where they are stored is forcing us to move them out of the current location and we cannot use them all.. Many thanks for your consideration. Curt W1FSM Um, how much? --STeve

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need tips for repeater performance

2009-06-17 Thread STeve Andre'
you can find those, too. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Wednesday 17 June 2009 21:34:42 Eric Lemmon wrote: Aisen, Changing the RG-8 to LMR400 will reduce the feedline loss by about 0.8 dB, which is a small improvement, but LMR400 is known to cause major problems in duplex service. RG-8

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re:Dayton

2009-05-18 Thread STeve Andre'
, and I was able to fix three of them myself by calling others. Not bad. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Monday 18 May 2009 06:57:45 Adam T. Cately wrote: Maybe one of the members of DARA reads this list... Years ago, when the club farmed out the running of the Hamvention to a real

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Ridiculus

2009-04-08 Thread STeve Andre'
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 16:38:13 Lee Pennington wrote: === THIS IS ABSOLUTLY REDICULOUS! Of course it is. So was The War of the Worlds. --STeve Andre' wb8wsfen82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] looking for an Untenna (or two)

2009-03-10 Thread STeve Andre'
, about on par with a 1/4 wave antenna. They did look neat though, and sparked questions from people who saw them. Look at http://www.orionmicro.com/ant/ddrr/ddrr1.htm for more information. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Radios and Coms in TV and Movies

2009-02-02 Thread STeve Andre'
*. But if they add the audio from the HT later, thats ok. Stuff like that is done all the time. Sure, they could have used ham frequencies, but they're used to the art of pretending-- they're movie makers. ;-) --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] N connector parts?

2008-10-22 Thread STeve Andre'
Yes, absolutely a great place. Joel can get just about anything connector wise, and tell you to get and not get. The url is www.therfc.com. --STeve Andre' On Wednesday 22 October 2008 22:29:36 Michael Ryan wrote: RF Connection in Gaithersburg, MD. They also have the rubber washers, etc

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Temporary Repeater

2008-09-30 Thread STeve Andre'
Sure it is. If you have a *genuine* emergency, you can go around the rules. Do you honestly think that the FCC is going to come down on you if you are directly dealing with a crisis, and didn't obey some rule, in order to better facilitate helping the situation? --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Registered Sex Offenders

2008-08-11 Thread STeve Andre'
No Paul, a blanket statement like that is wrong. The owner of a repeater was wide latitude, but not complete. Try banning people of a certain race from a repeater, and see what happens. The owner of the repeater is not going to do well. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Monday 11 August 2008 13

Re: [Repeater-Builder] ScotchkoatR

2008-01-08 Thread STeve Andre'
used earlier in our lives. So while MEK is cool, I use it with great caution and protection. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Tuesday 08 January 2008 12:46:38 Paul Finch wrote: Jim, One thing, same thing about Radon gas. What happened to that, it was supposed to kill thousands. Someone made

[Repeater-Builder] SPSS 15 codes

2007-03-29 Thread STeve Andre'
I hope you saw the SPSS CD in your mailbox. In case you don't still have them, the codes are s/n 9720071 SPSS15 4b2a832a14bb51604dd0 AMOS7 5e6c8c205c43610ffefd Do remember to check the time on the system before installing. Good luck. ;-) STeve

Re: [Repeater-Builder] SPSS 15 codes

2007-03-29 Thread STeve Andre'
OOPS! This is work mail, not ham mail. *SIGH* Sometimes, just too many things are going on at once in my life and it gets nuts. By the way, you *don't* want to run SPSS. Trust me. ;-) --STeve Andre' On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:50:46 STeve Andre' wrote: I hope you saw the SPSS CD in your

[Repeater-Builder] Looking for advice on 1200MHz repeater antennas

2007-03-19 Thread STeve Andre'
What are good 1200MHz antennas for repeaters? Where is the line between quality and price? What should I avoid? tnx, --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

[Repeater-Builder] Opinons on Andrew VXL5-50

2007-03-13 Thread STeve Andre'
I'm curious if the XVL version of LDF5-50 has any problems that I should know of. It seems pretty reasonable, and the price seems to be $1.95 a foot. If folks know of cheaper sources for N connectors for it, I'd like to hear about those. Thanks, STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] posts showing up out of sequence

2007-02-13 Thread STeve Andre'
going to be dealing so well, either. Sigh. I remember simpler days when email systems were actually fun to administer... --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] LMR-1200

2007-01-25 Thread STeve Andre'
than .9dB per 100ft loss at 450MHz, so that should work well. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82

Re: [Repeater-Builder] FYI: FCC officially issues RO dropping code requirement today

2006-12-15 Thread STeve Andre'
of a reason as to why it might be a good idea to learn it ignites... The rest of this is up to us, however. We need to welcome these changes and then find ways to hook them onto CW and all the other wonderful modes we have. It IS possible. All is takes is imagination on our parts. --STeve Andre

Re: FW: Read: [Repeater-Builder] Stuck cores

2006-12-06 Thread STeve Andre'
dangerous software. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:18, Ken Arck wrote: At 05:56 PM 12/6/2006, you wrote: I don't know what this is, but I don't think I sent this message... Maybe someone is spoofing my address. ---Personally, I think anyone who runs MS Outlook

Re: [Repeater-Builder] VHF or UHF repeater

2006-07-27 Thread STeve Andre'
I tend to agree with that. I'll also add that 220 seems to be the best when you're trying to communicate around a lot of trees. The smaller antenna size from 2M meant that I could have better yagis. Lastly, 1200 around trees is a great way to not talk very far in a forest. ;-) --STeve Andre

Re: [Repeater-Builder] RG-213 versus RG-214 in a Sinclair Duplexer

2006-07-09 Thread STeve Andre'
RG214U is available for $2/foot over at the RF Connection. I really like those folks. So, judging by their web site (therfc.com), it's a stock item. Not exactly cheap, but how many feet do you need for a reharness project... --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Monday 10 July 2006 11:35, va7aa

Re: [Repeater-Builder] A couple of questions about hard line

2006-04-24 Thread STeve Andre'
chopped off to get around the water damage, to having a somewhat worthless chunk of copper. Even hard line with no obvious damage can be bad; I found that out the hard way once. Really, the best way to test it is to stuff some connectors on it and see what the loss is with a watt meter. --STeve Andre

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton time line...

2006-03-27 Thread STeve Andre'
getting their licenses there. We did some volunteer stuff last year, and I think it was obvious, the commitment they had to improving the show. We plan on doing that again this year. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Monday 27 March 2006 11:52, skipp025 wrote: Last year or the year before I heard

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Dayton Fleamarket space prices?

2006-03-25 Thread STeve Andre'
think that this doesn't make sense, you should be emailing the people there. Looking at the web site it seems that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be good places to direct your feelings. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go

Re: [Repeater-Builder] mods.dk (possiably OT)

2006-01-31 Thread STeve Andre'
result in a DMCA take down notice The DMCA is the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. If you want to be nauseated, read it. I'm not a lawyer but I've dealt with stuff like this on the net before. I will shut up now. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Wednesday 01 February 2006 02:00, Richard wrote: Me

Re: [Repeater-Builder] change of OS

2005-08-16 Thread STeve Andre'
Windows myself. ;-) --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Tuesday 16 August 2005 20:56, Mark A. Holman wrote: I just checked they are running WIN 2000 that they were being attacked. Mark skipp025 wrote: There a fairly new virus out now that has knocked out many of the ABC Network computers here

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Heliax Prices

2005-07-12 Thread STeve Andre'
harder to get these days. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http

Re: [Repeater-Builder] APC-7 - N adaptors

2005-07-12 Thread STeve Andre'
anything, knowing him, and at a good price. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Caution on Bomar Crystals

2005-05-10 Thread STeve Andre'
is a certain amount of pain. I'm willing to see what I can get away with too, but there are things that I won't try to skimp on and this is one of them. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf On Tuesday 10 May 2005 23:40, Steve Rodgers wrote: Why is it a common theme for some in this group make a statement

Re: [Repeater-Builder] 2 meter repeater

2005-03-30 Thread STeve Andre'
one on 2m. 2m is overpopulated with repeaters. Why not create one at 1.2GHz, where real innovation can be done? Or 902, or 2.4GHz, or ... --STeve Andre' wb8wsf (ann arbor, mich) Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder

Re: [Repeater-Builder] 2 meter coors?

2005-03-30 Thread STeve Andre'
that. It all depends on where you are. If you live in Wyoming, I'd bet you might be able to. New York City, and I'll bet not. You have to talk with your frequency coordinator. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

Re: [Repeater-Builder] New poll for Repeater-Builder

2005-03-25 Thread STeve Andre'
on this list. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf On Friday 25 March 2005 14:54, Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com wrote: Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the Repeater-Builder group: Russ is on my last nurve because he says people that build repeaters from commercial components isn't really

Re: [Repeater-Builder] which kind of cable coax should I use?

2005-02-13 Thread STeve Andre'
for that. Given the cost of Heliax these days, I'd use that. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo

Re: [Repeater-Builder] antenna opinions

2005-02-09 Thread STeve Andre'
however. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Repeater, service monitors and other stuff for sale

2005-02-08 Thread STeve Andre'
Dayton in the 80's or so, and feeling sad about them Friends I'm not going to see again. So why should this not be real? Don't forget, there is fraud EVERYWHERE. The best fraud looks the most polished of all. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web