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1  eHam Forums / Mobile Ham / RE: Motorola Syntor X9000 - Do or Don't? on: May 27, 2013, 09:21:07 AM
The reason they're so readily available is because they're so miserable to work with that nobody wants to touch them. They were a pain in the butt to the commercial techs that had to service them back in the day.

I agree with Mark...stick to Spectras or later.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
2  eHam Forums / Mobile Ham / RE: _ on: January 27, 2012, 05:40:20 PM
Where else but Eham could you find two pages of responses to a simple piece of punctuation?

73,
Larry, N2HBX
3  eHam Forums / Misc / RE: Show me an Active Ham Married with Family and Job and I'll show you..... on: January 18, 2012, 10:47:44 AM
Poor, old WA4D. Clearly needs more fiber in his diet.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
4  eHam Forums / Misc / RE: Are we allow to talk to Space Aliens on HAM frequency ? on: December 14, 2011, 04:27:29 PM
Must be a slow news day at EHam... Huh

73,
Larry, N2HBX
5  eHam Forums / Misc / RE: Harbor Freight 800 watt generator on: December 14, 2011, 04:23:18 PM
I inquired in my nearby Harbor Freight this past weekend. They're going on sale for $89 again in January

73,
Larry, N2HBX
6  eHam Forums / Mobile Ham / RE: Disney Cruise gadgets for Hams?? on: October 28, 2011, 11:48:33 AM
Take your trunking scanner. The Disney ships have Motorola trunking systems for use by the crew.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
7  eHam Forums / Misc / RE: Ham Radio yet once again on the big movie screen. Who's antenna farms was...... on: July 24, 2011, 04:52:01 PM
Although not a movie, I remember a TV series where David Jannsen (of "The Fugitive" fame) played a private detective. One of the episodes' central plot elements was a ham operator. I vaguely remember a scene where Jannsen's character was talking to the guy as he was sitting in his van overlooking the ocean working 40 meters.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
8  eHam Forums / Mods And Repairs / RE: IC-207 Backlight Lamp Replacement on: July 18, 2011, 08:22:31 PM
Go to your nearest hobby shop that deals with model trains. Ask for some 12V "grain of wheat" bulbs. Works perfectly and fits nicely into the display recesses. A couple of bucks will net you a lifetime replacement supply.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
9  eHam Forums / Repeaters / RE: 2M repeater tuned cavitys or 2 antennas on: July 12, 2011, 06:38:41 AM
The separation distances required for even minimal acceptable isolation at 2 meters makes the two-antenna approach impractical. For example, you would need over 50 feet of vertical separation to obtain about 65 dB of isolation. Horizontal separation would be even further. The two-antenna approach is much more feasible at 440 and above.

You could buy a very nice duplexer for less than it would cost to implement the dual antenna system, plus you wouldn't need all the "real estate" to install it. Maintenance with a duplexer is a non-issue. Once it's tuned and in place, it's basically a "set it and forget it" deal. Our group bought a 4-cavity duplexer for under $1000 that works perfectly.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
10  eHam Forums / Good Seller / Buyer Beware / RE: How To Fight Back Against Scammers! on: April 26, 2011, 10:43:39 AM
Quote
you pass yourself off as a disabled vet in a wheelchair (stolen valor)

Yeah, I guess the same way cops passing themselves off as children in chat rooms to catch pedophiles is "stolen childhood".

73,
Larry, N2HBX
11  eHam Forums / Good Seller / Buyer Beware / RE: How To Fight Back Against Scammers! on: April 26, 2011, 10:36:33 AM
The biggest problem with the Heisenburg Demodulators is that if they're too old, the flux capacitors dry out.

73,
Larry, N2HBX Cool
12  eHam Forums / Emergency Communications / RE: ARES has made me curious on: April 12, 2011, 07:46:07 PM
Here in Winter Park, FL a data stream sent over a Public Safety radio channel activates the sirens. The data side was designed by Federal Signal, and the Motorola shop I work for did the RF integration.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
13  eHam Forums / Misc / RAY DOBSON IS A SCAMMER!!! on: July 27, 2010, 08:00:12 AM
I was contacted by a "Ray Dobson" regarding a radio I have for sale.

I should have been suspicious of the broken English that his emails were written in, but I went through to the point of getting payment. Guess what?

He's using the "I'm sending you more than you asked for, wire the balance to such-and-such" scam.

The emails are coming from "joerbn72@googlemail.com"

Needless to say, I cut him off at the knees and advised him not to contact me again. I have saved all the emails though, and with any luck, I might still get his payment in the mail. Then I can sink this SOB over mail fraud.

Watch out for this "alpha-hotel"!!
 Angry
73,
Larry, N2HBX
14  eHam Forums / Misc / RE: Repeater Police on: June 09, 2010, 06:18:55 PM
When I departed from CB I remember was the term "handle" being used but not first personal - in fact had I heard someone use that term it would have taken a bit to figure out what was meant. It's definitely not terminology to use in a contest situation. Nowadays I hear folks on the ham band use "handle" somewhat "the handle here is..". We have our own terminology why use another? Sort of like international phonetics, it's made up so if we use the IP correctly everyone everywhere cal write out what we are saying despite the language o pronunciation. I don't believe in repeater or DX police unless someone is making a total disaster of the frequency but good operating practice should always prevail including the police IDing themselves.

"First personal" was used mostly by sideband operators to distinguish themselves as "higher class" operators than their handle-equipped good buddies on AM.

73,
Larry, N2HBX
15  eHam Forums / Emergency Communications / RE: EmComm Obesity on: February 16, 2010, 01:59:22 PM
<Just an observation here--why do you think the town, city and county agencies aren't falling for the emcomm 'we can' story?>

Look what happened when we followed someone else with the "yes we can" line!!
 
Larry
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