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Monitoring ham radio

Postby Roman » Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:30 pm

Sitting around the dinner table with Isabel listening to the nightly ham radio "net" on the Spout Springs Repeater Association. Fun use for a Baofeng radio.

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Every night starting at 7pm

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Re: Monitoring ham radio

Postby Roman » Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:19 pm

She enjoys trying to log call signs. Phonetic spelling helps, but its tough to catch 'em all!

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Re: Monitoring ham radio

Postby iaccocca » Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:21 pm

Special treat... Saturday you can hear yours truly in his full on nerdom, hosting said social net. Listen in and know that, yes, we are all this cool.
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Re: Monitoring ham radio

Postby Roman » Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:39 pm

Lee made a successful "grocery store run" south of town in the snow today.

I wasn't able to go out and play, but was able to monitor him on ham and track him via APRS to make sure he was still moving along.

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Re: Monitoring ham radio

Postby iaccocca » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:02 pm

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Okay, we're a little crazy to have a Duramax for a daily driver. But if we go off our meds, we might wind up in a Prius.
If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.
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Re: Monitoring ham radio

Postby commando14 » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:35 pm

Lee this pic brings back good memories :D

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Re: Monitoring ham radio

Postby iaccocca » Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:54 pm

Work made it un-possible for me to go on today's snow run :( , but because I was stuck in town I did get to go on a Fox Hunt :) .
To answer your questions...
A. Thread is called monitoring HAM radio?
If you had been monitoring the right frequency you might have hear some weird tones followed by some CW (Morse code.)
B. Fox Hunt?
The thing emitting the weird tones and CW (I know CW sounds like weird tones) was a 'FOX'. That is hidden transmitter. We use Yagi directional antennas and handy talkies (HTs) to find it.
i. More questions...
Exhibit (A)...
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That is my Yagi directional antenna made out of a tape measure (yes a tape measure) and pcv pipe. About 8 bucks in parts, cheaper if I'd picked up the tape measure at Harbor Freight. The HT is my kinda high end Kenwood, but a Baofeng would have been just as effective. almost
C. Lee, you know this is a wheeling forum?
Yes, you see some on hides the transmitter. We gotta go find it. We drive to it. If someone were to hide it somewhere we find interesting...
Point is there is some interest in the SSRA (my HAM club) in getting the Peak Putters (our wheelin' club) to team up and maybe have the 4x4 operators to take the HAM operators on the search. Think somewhere in the Blues, or Juniper, or...
Nothing in the works; just the seed of a thought. We have to get to something like normal times to make it feasible, but some of us think it sounds like a blast. And get this, we have a traveling trophy that the winner keeps until the next hunt. Sound familiar?
Okay, we're a little crazy to have a Duramax for a daily driver. But if we go off our meds, we might wind up in a Prius.
If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.
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