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  1. Worked #N8LBV on his at-home Allstar 70cm repeater from three Ann Arbor city parks, but by the time I got home I was just far enough away that I could hear him but he couldn't hear me because of the fading on my signal.

    Steve says his range is 5 miles to an HT, 10 miles on a base station.

    Perhaps it's time to get a modern 2m/70cm base station at home to replace my 2m monoband mid-1990s vintage Kenwood mobile that serves the purpose now?

    First I need to try from a parking structure downtown.

  2. Worked #N8LBV on his at-home Allstar 70cm repeater from three Ann Arbor city parks, but by the time I got home I was just far enough away that I could hear him but he couldn't hear me because of the fading on my signal.

    Steve says his range is 5 miles to an HT, 10 miles on a base station.

    Perhaps it's time to get a modern 2m/70cm base station at home to replace my 2m monoband mid-1990s vintage Kenwood mobile that serves the purpose now?

    First I need to try from a parking structure downtown.

  3. Worked #N8LBV on his at-home Allstar 70cm repeater from three Ann Arbor city parks, but by the time I got home I was just far enough away that I could hear him but he couldn't hear me because of the fading on my signal.

    Steve says his range is 5 miles to an HT, 10 miles on a base station.

    Perhaps it's time to get a modern 2m/70cm base station at home to replace my 2m monoband mid-1990s vintage Kenwood mobile that serves the purpose now?

    First I need to try from a parking structure downtown.

  4. Worked #N8LBV on his at-home Allstar 70cm repeater from three Ann Arbor city parks, but by the time I got home I was just far enough away that I could hear him but he couldn't hear me because of the fading on my signal.

    Steve says his range is 5 miles to an HT, 10 miles on a base station.

    Perhaps it's time to get a modern 2m/70cm base station at home to replace my 2m monoband mid-1990s vintage Kenwood mobile that serves the purpose now?

    First I need to try from a parking structure downtown.

  5. Worked #N8LBV on his at-home Allstar 70cm repeater from three Ann Arbor city parks, but by the time I got home I was just far enough away that I could hear him but he couldn't hear me because of the fading on my signal.

    Steve says his range is 5 miles to an HT, 10 miles on a base station.

    Perhaps it's time to get a modern 2m/70cm base station at home to replace my 2m monoband mid-1990s vintage Kenwood mobile that serves the purpose now?

    First I need to try from a parking structure downtown.

  6. The programming cable for my Cotre CO04D showed up today, so I have a holiday project.

    This is a (not very good) very cheap ($17) UHF DMR/FM radio with a small number of programmable channels.

    Task 1 is to get it to talk to my Pi-Star DMR hotspot, and get into #Fedihams . I'll also set up a few analog channels and try the top of the parking structure to hit a local UHF repeater ( #N8LBV 443.05+ PL107.2 )

    A writeup from jhart99 :

    jhart99.com/better-cheap-dmr/

    #cotre #co04d

  7. The programming cable for my Cotre CO04D showed up today, so I have a holiday project.

    This is a (not very good) very cheap ($17) UHF DMR/FM radio with a small number of programmable channels.

    Task 1 is to get it to talk to my Pi-Star DMR hotspot, and get into #Fedihams . I'll also set up a few analog channels and try the top of the parking structure to hit a local UHF repeater ( #N8LBV 443.05+ PL107.2 )

    A writeup from jhart99 :

    jhart99.com/better-cheap-dmr/

    #cotre #co04d

  8. The programming cable for my Cotre CO04D showed up today, so I have a holiday project.

    This is a (not very good) very cheap ($17) UHF DMR/FM radio with a small number of programmable channels.

    Task 1 is to get it to talk to my Pi-Star DMR hotspot, and get into #Fedihams . I'll also set up a few analog channels and try the top of the parking structure to hit a local UHF repeater ( #N8LBV 443.05+ PL107.2 )

    A writeup from jhart99 :

    jhart99.com/better-cheap-dmr/

    #cotre #co04d

  9. The programming cable for my Cotre CO04D showed up today, so I have a holiday project.

    This is a (not very good) very cheap ($17) UHF DMR/FM radio with a small number of programmable channels.

    Task 1 is to get it to talk to my Pi-Star DMR hotspot, and get into #Fedihams . I'll also set up a few analog channels and try the top of the parking structure to hit a local UHF repeater ( #N8LBV 443.05+ PL107.2 )

    A writeup from jhart99 :

    jhart99.com/better-cheap-dmr/

    #cotre #co04d

  10. The programming cable for my Cotre CO04D showed up today, so I have a holiday project.

    This is a (not very good) very cheap ($17) UHF DMR/FM radio with a small number of programmable channels.

    Task 1 is to get it to talk to my Pi-Star DMR hotspot, and get into #Fedihams . I'll also set up a few analog channels and try the top of the parking structure to hit a local UHF repeater ( #N8LBV 443.05+ PL107.2 )

    A writeup from jhart99 :

    jhart99.com/better-cheap-dmr/

    #cotre #co04d

  11. ARROW (Washtenaw County Michigan / #AnnArbor area, #EN82 ) annual meeting tonight at the Saline library. Election of officers, plans for next year's meetings, white elephant gift exchange. Thanks to Steve #N8LBV the outgoing technical coordinator, and congratulations to Jay #WB8TKL the incoming technical coordinator.

    It was a hybrid meeting (in person and Zoom), and I have a suspicion that the Zoom participants got a less than awesome meeting out of it. It was good to see people in person.

  12. ARROW (Washtenaw County Michigan / #AnnArbor area, #EN82 ) annual meeting tonight at the Saline library. Election of officers, plans for next year's meetings, white elephant gift exchange. Thanks to Steve #N8LBV the outgoing technical coordinator, and congratulations to Jay #WB8TKL the incoming technical coordinator.

    It was a hybrid meeting (in person and Zoom), and I have a suspicion that the Zoom participants got a less than awesome meeting out of it. It was good to see people in person.

  13. ARROW (Washtenaw County Michigan / #AnnArbor area, #EN82 ) annual meeting tonight at the Saline library. Election of officers, plans for next year's meetings, white elephant gift exchange. Thanks to Steve #N8LBV the outgoing technical coordinator, and congratulations to Jay #WB8TKL the incoming technical coordinator.

    It was a hybrid meeting (in person and Zoom), and I have a suspicion that the Zoom participants got a less than awesome meeting out of it. It was good to see people in person.

  14. ARROW (Washtenaw County Michigan / #AnnArbor area, #EN82 ) annual meeting tonight at the Saline library. Election of officers, plans for next year's meetings, white elephant gift exchange. Thanks to Steve #N8LBV the outgoing technical coordinator, and congratulations to Jay #WB8TKL the incoming technical coordinator.

    It was a hybrid meeting (in person and Zoom), and I have a suspicion that the Zoom participants got a less than awesome meeting out of it. It was good to see people in person.

  15. ARROW (Washtenaw County Michigan / #AnnArbor area, #EN82 ) annual meeting tonight at the Saline library. Election of officers, plans for next year's meetings, white elephant gift exchange. Thanks to Steve #N8LBV the outgoing technical coordinator, and congratulations to Jay #WB8TKL the incoming technical coordinator.

    It was a hybrid meeting (in person and Zoom), and I have a suspicion that the Zoom participants got a less than awesome meeting out of it. It was good to see people in person.