Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: MOTOROLA Rib Error

2007-05-31 Thread John Gleichweit
I have an old 286/10 that works perfectly for programming even the oldest Motorola radios. On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:56:40 -0400, Jim Cicirello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Adam, Thanks for the Info. on the HP Handheld. I am going to Dayton and may find one. Small and compact too. Ron, N9EE, My

Re: Re: Repeater output in amateur satellite subband (was Re: [Repeater-Builder]

2007-10-13 Thread John Gleichweit
Let's just make the discussion extremely simple. What does the equipment do? It receives a signal on one frequency, and transmits it on another almost simultaneously. This is the definition of a repeater. It doesn't matter if the signal is analog or digital; FM, ACSSB, VSELP, IMBE, or AMBE.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Polaris Industries PAII progamming box

2007-12-13 Thread John Gleichweit
They're pretty simple... Plug one side into your computer's serial port, and a radio-specific cable into the other. Attach the radio, run the appropriate software, and you're in business! It helps to have a 9-12V power supply attached to the RIB as well, so that you don't have to worry about

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Ham Radio Communication in New Jersey

2008-02-29 Thread John Gleichweit
We have a similar law here in CA that will take effect on 7/1/2008 re: cell phones, with the same exemptions for two-way radios. - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Repeater Power Amplifier sent in a paper bag

2008-04-25 Thread John Gleichweit
There's a thread in one of the vintage stereo groups about problems with shipping companies and their not honoring damage claims. UPS and FedEx seem to be the worst, with DHL better than the two. I had one shipper who literally threw about 50# worth of assorted radios and parts into a thin

Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Repeater Power Amplifier sent in a paper bag

2008-04-26 Thread John Gleichweit
One of the posters on the other list recommended that you talk to the warehouse manager for your local office equipment company/companies to get heavyweight cardboard boxes and foam corners to help in securing and double boxing the equipment. - Original Message From: Ron Wright

Re: [Repeater-Builder] GMRS and P25 Question

2008-07-02 Thread John Gleichweit
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2007/octqtr/47cfr95.631.htm Sec. 95.631 Emission types. (a) A GMRS transmitter must transmit only emission types A1D, F1D, G1D, H1D, J1D, R1D, A3E, F3E, G3E, H3E, J3E or R3E. A non-voice emission is limited to selective calling or tone-operated squelch

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Beware of DTV Box Scam

2008-07-10 Thread John Gleichweit
The same ad has been posted in probably every paper in the US. I saw it in our paper here in CenCal. You pay $50 for the warranty, and they get the $40 voucher AND your $50 for a total of $90 into their pockets for a box that probably cost them $20 to mass produce in China. - Original

Re: [Repeater-Builder] do you believe this

2008-07-13 Thread John Gleichweit
It's BS. It's part of a viral marketing campaign from a headset company. Ron Wright wrote: hi all, This kinda repeater related, but do you believe this: http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html Popping pop corn with a cel phone video. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron

Re: [Repeater-Builder] eBay security

2008-10-22 Thread John Gleichweit
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/stop_spoof_websites.html Ebay will never ask for your personal information, and will never send you an email without your full name as the greeting. If the greeting is generic such as Dear eBay Member, it's a fake. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT,

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage

2008-12-16 Thread John Gleichweit
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:21:13 -0700, you wrote: The cell phone companies get something like $20/month to numbers well over $120/month out of you to provide all that infrastructure. Some large linking systems get $10/month out of all members... that's probably the highest I've heard of. My

Re: [Repeater-Builder] MPT Trunked Radio in CB Band

2009-02-17 Thread John Gleichweit
By Kent's email domain, I'd gather that he's in Singapore. I'm not sure what the unlicensed/low restriction band may be over there, but it's probably in the 450-470 range. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10,

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Which Motorola Mobiles Do 29 MHz?

2009-03-03 Thread John Gleichweit
Syntor X9000, Maratrac (low split) -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator x9 CA-OES 51-507 http://smokeybehr.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/smokeybehr - Original Message From:

Re: [Repeater-Builder] How about a Freq list for the new DTV channels

2009-03-07 Thread John Gleichweit
There's no change in how the channels are divided up. The frequencies are all remaining the same, just where the digital vs. analog signal has changed. Generally, the announced channel number is for the analog signal, with the digital signal in another channel slot, until the official

Re: [Repeater-Builder] (OT) APCO P25 horror stories anyone?

2009-04-09 Thread John Gleichweit
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:17:03 -0500, you wrote: yes, remember the claims of 'extended dynamic range' ?? now, producers and 'artists' want every bit to be a '1' look at a current 'hit' with Adobe Audition it has all the 'dynamic range' of a concrete block Gary Everything has been

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Tape

2009-09-10 Thread John Gleichweit
Another trick I learned is to make 2 wraps with the adhesive in (on the work) then fold it over and make your wraps with the adhesive out as your first layer before putting the mastic/butyl tape down. This will keep the adhesive from getting all over the work, especially when wrapping coax

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: ATSC pilot frequencies for Sig.Gen. alignment

2009-09-10 Thread John Gleichweit
Some of the stuff coming out of China (Hong Kong) is fine. I just wouldn't trust anything that's got to be ultra precise... -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator x9 CalEMA 51-507

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Passive fer wifi

2009-09-10 Thread John Gleichweit
A pair of DBS dishes with a bi-quad antenna mounted in place of the feedhorn, fed by WRT-54G routers with DD-WRT firmware to tweak the power and turn off one antenna port will be perfect for this application. You can either flip the dish so the feed is on top, or mount the pole so it's

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Motorola Spectra 900's

2009-11-21 Thread John Gleichweit
I'll second the motion for a write-up. If you have high-rez pictures, that'll help even more. I have 2 900MHz A5 Spectras that I want to tweak into the 902 band. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator x9

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Caution to Group Members Trojan from Yahoo Banner Advertisments

2010-01-17 Thread John Gleichweit
I don't use IE for its ads, except to run a Terminal Services session at work. I use Firefox with Ad Block Plus, which blocks everything that's an ad, and it it doesn't get blocked, I can set a filter to block whatever it might be. One of the major problems is that Yahoo uses Flash, and it's

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola Quantar 2M UHF Repeater Ordering Questions

2010-01-21 Thread John Gleichweit
Look at Daniels Electronics, too. They have some really nice machines, and are less than Quantars. They also take up a lot less space than Quantars do, and use a lot less power. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10,

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Daniels Electronics MT-3 Lowband Radios on 6 meters?

2010-02-14 Thread John Gleichweit
The trick is spending a whole bunch of money with them, which the State of California has done. You know the drill: Money talks, and BS walks... On 2/14/2010 4:26 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:03 AM, James Adkins wrote: I agree. If you look at the BCD codes, there's

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

2010-03-24 Thread John Gleichweit
Short answer, no. Long answer: The MT1000 RSS is part of the Genesis Series, and was written long before the Pentium series chips were even though of. The RSS Primer on RBTIP and BatLabs both have a deeper explanation. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP

Re: [Repeater-Builder] A warning to Land Mobile Radio Dealers

2010-04-30 Thread John Gleichweit
You can tell WalMart security to go eff himself. Nobody owns a non-licensed frequency, and all users must accept other users on those channels. Look at Section 95.1309. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator

Re: [Repeater-Builder] I've been lookin' for line in all the wrong places...

2010-06-24 Thread John Gleichweit
There's a guy that posts over on the TowerPro list named Mike Landa that is always horse-trading towers, feedline, etc. IIRC, his website is http://www.usedtowers.com -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator

Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's)

2010-07-27 Thread John Gleichweit
Whaddaya mean lunchboxes don't count? I have a pair of GE Portamobile II's in the shop just begging to be recrystalled and ready to rock. If course, I was considering building those into APRS trackers or packet boxes, where everything was built inside, and all you needed to do was plug in a

Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's)

2010-07-28 Thread John Gleichweit
That box you have on top (the old BatWinger) I have one of sitting on the floor in the shop next to the bench. Maybe I should dig up some of the ancient radios that I have floating around and take pix of them. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno

[Repeater-Builder] Another stolen repeater (California)

2010-08-11 Thread John Gleichweit
Full View This weekend we had a CDF repeater stolen from the Ben Bolte site in El Dorado Hills. It disappeared somewhere between Saturday evening and Sunday morning. What I would like is for your folks to keep their ears open for any talk about new equipment, specifically Daniels equipment.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] (unknown)

2010-08-11 Thread John Gleichweit
Pharma spam. Leads back to a site with a .EU address. -- John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator x9 CalEMA 51-507 http://smokeybehr.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/smokeybehr From: La Rue Communications

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Low Band Antenna for both 6 10 meters.

2010-08-23 Thread John Gleichweit
Don't forget your toast, rice and playing cards, too. On 8/21/2010 9:22 PM, George Henry wrote: And the spray bottle of water, and the newspaper... - Original Message - From: Mike Morriswa6...@gmail.com To:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:10 AM