Department of Redundancy Department

No joke. Just think of all the LoRa stuff out there.

We ended up besting our last year record. We ran 2B (battery) and it was a little challenging early on making SSB QSOs with 5w but we pulled through. Did a lot of digital this year. Could have done better but we were plagued with bad weather and thunderstorms.

Worked all bands but 10m wasn’t good.

I’ll check it out. I’ve been using Breezy Weather and have been happy with it as well.

In addition to what @shortwavesurfer has, I would like to add you go through your house and look for noise inside. I found many noisy electronic devices when I did. I suspect you are more likely to find interferences this way. The call is often coming from inside the house.

I have an OCFD which has the long leg within ~20ft of the neighborhood lines but the don’t cross. I don’t hear any noise but it is at about a 45° angle to the lines. I have a “kinda ugly” common mode choke I built and put up with the antenna so I can’t tell you if it’s choking out noise but I would suggest you use one. If you hear interference, you should contract your power company and let them know because the lines aren’t supposed to be interfering (at least in the US).

Depending on your geometry and distance between your antenna and the power lines, there may be impacts on your reception and transmission. I don’t know enough about thee physics, though.

I believe the band error arises when you have a frequency programmed outside the allocation (amateur vs commercial) for the radio. It must be set in the CPS as well but don’t remember where but it is one of the first/early settings you should set.

I would recommend looking it up on the Bridgecom YouTube videos. They can be tedious but they also have some very useful information.

I think what you’re looking for is in the Optional Settings > Key Functions tab of the CPS. After you’ve saved your codeplug, you need to load it to the radio.

What do you mean by “unlock?”

I have an AT-878UVII+ and I only know of 2 options available - amateur or commercial.

I figured it out.

In the settings, if you set up an email address to forward you emails, you won’t receive them over the air.

I wouldn’t recommend the AT-878uvII+ (or the 878uv) as a first rig. It is a good radio (I have one) but it is DMR and uses a Windows-only CPS that isn’t user friendly to program the rig. Similarly, it is a bear to program on the rig. Unless you really want to get into DMR (is there activity in your area?), I would suggest the king of all HTs - the Radio Shack HTX-202 (I have one as well). They’re easy to program on the rig, true FM, have a superhetrodyne receiver, are a classic, and can be found at reasonable price on eBay. Drawbacks - only 2m, big, squelch seems sensitive to some of my computer monitors, and you’ll probably need to buy a wall charger and new battery.

Don’t feel bad. I missed it too and it took forever to figure out. 🤷‍♂️ (see)

Yes

I’m for the preemptive de-federation.

I’m sure they’d vote against a bill for colorblind people too.

Not my kid. She only had it on for a specific reason and she only accepts she had to put up with it for now.

She’s more than happy to bring it up as an issue from time to time.

Ok. I’ve put in a SSD, I’m looking to add RAM (I may be already maxed out), and run zswap, etc. I guess I’ll be sticking with LibreOffice.

I use the laptop for ham radio stuff, mostly, and things like an office suite are secondary.

How is it on resources? I have a i386 project computer running Debian 12 and I’m looking to make it as “modern” as possible. Right now, my fight is with slow browsers and LibreOffice (I’m trying to avoid the Abiword, etc route).

Increasingly, it really doesn’t need to die. Digital modes are available for enhanced AM which could provide shudder stereo and more.

It does provide a benefit - but to the very greedy, very few. If there was ever parity, the bands would be filled with their greed noise.

Until another company gets a license and does it themselves which will lead to more looking for licenses… until the band is useless trash filled with interference.

And we thought the woodpecker was bad.