Ham Radio Station In A Go Box I had heard a story of a long time ago where a police department somewhere in the United States needed ham radio operator help for some emergency. I believe it was a RACES group. The police needed to coordinate their efforts with the ham radio volunteers. Within a very short time a ham radio operator showed up at the police station with a radio in a box solution. He was told where to…
One day while wearing my Kenwood TH-F6 on my belt I backed up to a wall for some reason and the radio fell off my belt and the clip on battery separated, both falling to the floor. The radio was ok but the battery lock mechanism was broken. The battery is rather expensive so I determined to figure out how to protect any HT radio. It took a while but here is my solution: T-Reign 24 inch 4 oz small…
I really recommend that if you are a ham radio operator staying at Walt Disney World, Orlando, that you check out Disney Emergency Amateur Radio Service or D.E.A.R.S. Here is the web site for that club: http://www.wd4wdw.org/. The web site shows the following information: 147.300 +.600 PL tone 103.5? and ?D-Star 442.000 +5.000 WD4WDW B Gateway Enabled After I arrived at the Saratoga Springs Resort, I broke out my ARRL Repeater Directory for 2011-2012 and input all the frequencies for…
I had an interesting conversation with a salesman at Ham Radio Outlet about putting up an antenna inside a house. He told me that house appliances, florescent figures and many other devices would interfere with an indoor antenna. That evening I connected my Yaesu FT-817 inside my home office to function as a short wave receiver. I hooked it up to my Spider antenna with a 20 Mhz coil. I put the radio into scan and got nothing but a…
I have previously purchased Prime headsets for my hand held radio also called a handy talky or HT for short. I need the headset for two city RACES events a year. Problem is that the Prime microphone fails to function properly after two events. This failure happened twice in two years. Buying these headsets every year was getting expensive. I called my local Ham Radio Outlet store and explained my problem. The salesman suggested I consider buying the Icom HS-51….
Here is a copy of an e-mail I sent to a couple of ham radio friends concerning buying a car mobile ham radio rig: Thank you, Jxxn, for telling me of your choice for dual band car radio, the Kenwood TM D700A. Your recommendation sent me on a rather long quest. I decided to wait as I heard that Kenwood was coming out with a newer version of your radio, which is now the Kenwood D710A. This new rig is…
