I am new to Ham Radio. My call sign is KD0BVI I drive a big truck and I purchased a Ranger 2950 on ebay. I tried to make contact in the 28.465 freq. I scanned and scanned to just listen. In the USB range. I heard nothing. I have it running on a new Wilson 2000 whip. I had no SWR memter at the time. But had a brand new 18 foot coaxial made. I put the whip in the mount about an inch. It seems to be okay the built in SWR
meter in the radio or the bars on the left side don't seem to light up so I believe its good. On uggggg 19 the Radio kicks ass and everyone says it sounds good.
Where are most of the hams at on 10 meters? And what about split channels? I know how to make all the functions work but not sure how to
use it. I hope to get me a good 220/440 2 meter if I can slip it past the woman if you know what I mean, I heard 10 meters went to crap. I figured it might be good in the area I was at by the Gulf of Mexico on I -275 right by the water in Florida. I always thought water would make good skip. Calling CQ...
Problem #1 - You basicaly bought a CB.
Problem #3 - It is Illegal to use the radio on CB frequencies and since it is now "open" for CB frequencies your radio is no longer FCC type accepted to be used on amateur radio frequencies.Hay I didn't mod the Radio at all. They sold them that way. So it has FM, AM, Sideband and you can dial 27.1850 That means I can't use it on 10 meters. So when will the season come back? And THANKS for the Help. I really do want a 2 meter rig. From some of the prices I see... I can't afford much.
Problem #1 - You basicaly bought a CB.
Hey now wait a min. I think the RCI's are a good radio if left alone.
They can do with out the echo's and other crud build in the radio. But for a low priced radio, I think that they do ok.
Problem #3 - It is Illegal to use the radio on CB frequencies and since it is now "open" for CB frequencies your radio is no longer FCC type accepted to be used on amateur radio frequencies.Hay I didn't mod the Radio at all. They sold them that way. So it has FM, AM, Sideband and you can dial 27.1850 That means I can't use it on 10 meters. So when will the season come back? And THANKS for the Help. I really do want a 2 meter rig. From some of the prices I see... I can't afford much. I am trying to get my kid and some of his friends interested. What would be good for my truck for a 2 meter and a ant. setup. Thanks..
I really enjoy this section on the bbs... So keep responding I like
reading your posts..
You never really answered my questions?
I hear you say you make some 10 meter contacts.
What freq.?
And what is the standard?
Do you use the spilt freq. setting?
Like I said,"I'm new and wanting to learn."
I'm trying to get away from uggg CB and go beyond that. Even back before
I had a license. I logged my contacts on the channels just above 40 closer to 65 or 27.465 on a 25 foot big stick. Mostly 2 the eastcoast... I hope to locate that book and add to it..
HAM Club meeting... It's hard stuff to learn for me.. But remember being around HAM in the early 70's. And wanted to get started when I was 14.. I am 40 now
Thanks-
Problem #1 - You basicaly bought a CB.
Hey now wait a min. I think the RCI's are a good radio if left alone. They can do with out the echo's and other crud build in the radio. But f a low priced radio, I think that they do ok.
RCI builds some really nice radios and if you don't do mods on themthey will last for a long time.
Well, no matter how you slice it, it is a glorified CB. When you "clip the diode" it opens up the 11 meter band with the Channel numbers and everything Also the signal on SSB from the factory is almost 7MHZ wide. C'mon man, it a roger beep. :)
People are better off spending about $200 more and buying an IC-718 or something.
Jason - W8ZZU
Total Logged Contacts = 1742
Last Contact: KI4JEK on 40 SSB. Location: VA. 1/27/08 at 21:30 UTC
Do you use the spilt freq. setting?
Not unless there is some contest where someone in another country is using a split. I have never run across that on the 10 meter band though.
Well, no matter how you slice it, it is a glorified CB. When you "clip the diode" it opens up the 11 meter band with the Channel numbers and everything Also the signal on SSB from the factory is almost 7MHZ wide. C'mon man, it a roger beep. :)
Alot of the ham radios that are cheap have roger beeps, most true hams
don't use them though.
People are better off spending about $200 more and buying an IC-718 or something.
People tend to buy what they can afford at that time, you must have deep
pockets Jason. :-)
Do you use the spilt freq. setting?
Not unless there is some contest where someone in another country is using a split. I have never run across that on the 10 meter band
though.
I've only ever used split under conditions of massive QRM. Frankly, it doesn't help too much, as there is always a bunch of LIDs calling on your
Tx frequency.
Of course, cross-band split on OSCAR doesn't count!
Well, no matter how you slice it, it is a glorified CB. When you "clip the diode" it opens up the 11 meter band with the Channel numbers and everything. Also the signal on SSB from the factory is almost 7MHZ wide. C'mon man, it has a roger beep. :)
People are better off spending about $200 more and buying an IC-718 or something.
Hope to make 2 meter contact with you someday. I purchased a
FT-60 Yaesu. Hit's my local repeater pretty good. Soo far only one
contact and I nostly listen. I am going to have to pick up an adapter and
a J-Pole to hit the widearea repeater about 30 miles away. I do travel south and southeast of Iowa. With this limited power output. This isn't going to work very well driving. I guess if I am sitting still in the Truckstops it may work okay. I am intrested in the Wires type network and IRLP. I'm working on my cheap 2 meter ant. first. Some of the hamshack pictures amaze me out there. I have another hobby though model rail roading. And haven't made hardly anythime for that. And fish and camp in the summer. I love messing with Gentoo Linux and running my Synchronet
BBS. Not alot of time for modding that. I enjoyed looking through the ham callsign database. I use telnet for that. If you need the telnet address for that. I'll post it. Anyway... I rememeber going to my friends house WA0PGR that id is expired and he passed away. He had a very big shack and was into slow-scan TV and used the old Tandy Computer to decode CW and RTTY.. A model I tandy infact. He passed away in 2001 I beleive.. I didn't know.. He was old school WWII Vet. Who was a Radio Operator during war times. He had no Familly at all... It makes me wonder where all the equipment went. Made me sad seeing the Advanced class License expire.
Look what you leave behind as a ham.. Take care, KD0BVI-
BBS. Not alot of time for modding that. I enjoyed looking through the ham callsign database. I use telnet for that. If you need the telnet address for that. I'll post it.
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