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    ALWAYS TRYING HARDER Ah Pook's Avatar
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    Interesting.

    I just got a Yaesu VX-170 HT, off another list, earlier this week. No ticket yet.

    Not really into the ham culture/society. I had some friends get into 2 meter radios a few years back. I was interested at the time because there was no cell coverage up here. That has changed a little. There is better repeater coverage.

    Yaesu definitely isn't the most user friendly radio for a newb.
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    Escaped From New York zteknik's Avatar
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    Congrats!
    Sooner or later I'll take the test.come this summer I want to be able to have my ticket.
    Being a former commo chief it shouldn't be all that hard for me.Just have to jar my memory a bit.
    I allready have a couple of 2m rigs and a few handhelds(prc 127's ) I would love to get my hands on an Icom 700 series but that'll come later on.
    FHUGETABOUDIT!!!

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    qsl.fm has a database of repeaters that you can look up by state, and then by frequency bands. Denver has a 10m repeater, and three 6m repeaters, as well as the 2m and 440 repeaters. 10m repeaters require a general license to use, but when conditions are right, you can get alot of range with it. I'm no expert, but if we want to put together a net, we'd need permission of the repeater I would guess, perhaps Russ at HRO can help arrange something. Some of us who aren't in range of Denver's repeaters would likely want to participate. Granted, I can hear one of the Denver repeaters in the am here in the springs, but its weak, there's no way I can hit it from here reasonably. If you haven't already, try and get some of the local repeaters programmed in, and see if you can get it to work.

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    Great to hear you passed, someday I'll upgrade.

    My TIP for the radio setup: Program all local repeater frequencies into the radio that it will hold, and put them in frequency order. Makes it easy to move up or down to different repeaters as needed. Even if you pass into other areas of the state or other states, the repeater frequencies are usually duplicated, only differences would be a PL Tone to access. Include in the frequency list, all the simplex (non repeater) frequencies.

    example order:

    145.430
    145.490- 100PL (denver radio club)
    146.520 simplex
    146.550 simplex
    145.580 simplex
    145.625

    TIP #2: don't post your callsign on the internet anywhere. Once you do, anyone can find your name, address etc. Once posted on here, they will also have that associated with your user id. (they being = criminals or whoever)

    TIP #3: buy a radio that will allow computer programming capability. Much easier to hook the radio to a laptop and download your custom database list of frequencies. Also can use to program a friends radio of the same make/model.

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    Been a ham since 1993 here. Would love to help AR-15.co guys with this if they have any questions. And yeah, keep your call to yourself. Don't need to let the internet know that you have expensive guns *and* radios.

    An AR-15.co net would be an interesting thing to organize, hmm...

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    Escaped From New York zteknik's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by aryntha View Post
    Been a ham since 1993 here. Would love to help AR-15.co guys with this if they have any questions. And yeah, keep your call to yourself. Don't need to let the internet know that you have expensive guns *and* radios.

    An AR-15.co net would be an interesting thing to organize, hmm...
    Allways remember OPSEC..
    A coar15 net would be kinda neat!You could probably run a small scale one wthout a repeater.
    I know some repeaters use to allot some net time to certain clubs/organizations,dunno if they do that out here.
    We could allways start our own repeater...(nice to dream )
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    I was into HAM radio as a kid on a small scale (novice) with my Dad but let my ticket lapse. Would it be possible to get my old callsign back? Have the requirements changed for testing? Back in the day, I struggled with the morse. I heard it's not required anymore. Is Kenwood still making radios? Icom rings a bell. There's a guy on 14 with a huge tower setup I pass on my way out to my sites. I'd love to get back into it.
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    They've redone the tests, no morse code for any of the licenses now. They don't issue the novice anymore, the only ones out there are grandfathered, just like the advanced, so I don't see you getting your old sign back. Study up for the tech, and general if you can, and find a test session. Takes a week from the time you pass, and you have your new callsign.

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    I personally would shy away from a CoAR15 ham net, especially if talking mostly about guns. Again, thieves listen in and gather up callsigns and magically your stuff disappears. Sucky thing about a public callsign. Hopefully they will change it somehow and keep things more private.

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    gnihcraes - I was thinking the net details don't appear here. Instead, those who are interested meet face-to-face somewhere and figure out under what conditions the net is established, frequencies/repeaters, and type of information communicated. No association with COAR-15 on the net. So if someone outside the group was either listening in or on this forum, they wouldn't be able to connect the two.

    What would be ideal is something like eXRS, but with greater reach to include more of the state: http://www.trisquare.us/company.htm
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