Comms set-ups and accessories. Lets see 'em, /k/omrades.

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Harris corp.

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Harris seems to be op league.

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>>32300967
... as long as you have satellite resources. Otherwise intercontinental comms. is easier done over HF.

Bought a couple Op pic related, moon speak instructions were useless. Listened to some lonely fucks talking on ham radios about their bad backs or something when I was trying to find police comms. Put them away and told myself I would look up how to use them tomorrow. That was 2 years ago.

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>>32300967
Harris is good. The frequency coverage in that range is enormous.

Collins, however, is legendary. Pic. related.

>>32301958
>trying to find police comms
baofeng uv5r's ain't gonna do that.

Most police/fire/EMS use digital these days, baofengs can't pick it up. They're basically grown-up walkie talkies. Not talking shit, they do exactly what they are designed to do and the do it well.

They just aren't designed to do anything illegal. By which I mean anything fun.

You could look up the ISS freqs and listen to astronauts when the ISS is going overhead, that's a pretty cool project.

>>32302459
huh I wonder what a collins r390 is

oh it's a radio made in the '50's, I might actually be able to afford it.

>checks ebay
>$1200
>$1400
>$1500

FUCK

>>32303916
>Most police/fire/EMS use digital these days
not most, only some

>>32303994
fair point, I've been living in detroit and st louis, so we're talking fairly big metro police.

I guess county sherrif and smaller town PD's, makes sense they wouldn't be digitized yet.

this is why we don't make sweeping assumptions, kids

>>32304040
I live in Chicago and we're not digital yet, though there are rumors that it will be upgraded in the next year

>>32304076
>next year
I thought IL/Chicago were broke?

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>>32303974
Legendary status, my friend, does not come cheap.

The very existence of this radio was classified for many years. It was used in installations like pic. related: Wullenwebers.

I wish I knew more. This is what I am most interested in investing in. Because digital data.

http://www.elecraft.com/

http://www.dummies.com/programming/ham-radio/how-to-go-digital-with-your-ham-radio-psk-radioteletype-pactor-winmor-and-packet/

But I would have to get 2 sets for it to be useful. Also considering what could be done with a digital modem in the police frequency.

i have a baofeng uv5r+ that literally came in the mail today, just to try a new hobby. havent tried it out yet tho. bought a better whip for it too, need the mc accessories and a guide for it next.

Not really into radios, but are there civilian radios you can buy to at least monitor military frequencies? I'm stationed near a fighter base and would at least like to listen to the approach and tower controllers.

>>32304362
and by military I mean uhf 225-400mhz

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>tfw too scared to even turn my baofeng on because I don't want to get assraped by the FCC

>>32304219
You can use a cheap RTL-SDR for receive only to test.

>>32304362
>>32304369
A lot of modern Software Defined Radios (SDR) do that, such as RTL-SDR.

Comparisons can be found on the net including on http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ These are good enough that people have been able to use these for passive bistatic radars as well as direction finders.

>>32304479
Don't transmit on commercial frequencies, stick to FRS frequencies if you're really paranoid. And don't transmit near the HAM enthusiast, they'll fuck you up.

>>32304479
just don't press the PTT button...

>>32304496
This. I love to DF using doppler shift and fuck over unsuspecting illegal operators. FCC loves to ass rape LIDS.

Just look up "white noise" in San Antonio TX. FCC got him..lol.

On a side note...
Find what frequency your local Walmart operates on. Fuckimg with the employees is all kinds of fun!

I need a CSM to the Ladies restroom...code brown.

Loss prevention, please go to Ladies fitting rooms for a body cavity search.

lol

>>32304698
Have fun and stay legal http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/

I'm getting close to getting a helmet and want some peltors to mount to arc rails for super operator status.

However, I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to connect the peltors to my icom t70a.
Hard mode: I don't want to use a boom mic, I'd prefer to use a remote ptt on my PC.
No websites specify the inputs of peltors or remote ptt.

>>32304607
>FCC loves to ass rape LIDS
The ass rape has been much less since Hollingsworth retired years ago.

>>32303994
Not most, but, more each day. Radioreference has a list. Scanning public service stuff is a thing of the past as most muni system are not only going digital but also encrypted too.

>>32304885
> encrypted
Why?
Also, then why can't civs use encrypted?

>>32301620
Do want

>>32304479
if you just sporadically shitpost or send out test messages how can the FCC find you? dont you have to be actively transmitting to get a lock on your location

>>32304929
Privacy, hide from the taxpayers who fund them. I think full time encrypted public systems are a bunch of shit.

You can't use encryption on amatuer frequencies. That's a part 97 rule.

>>32304974
Direction finding is really easy, even if you only transmit for a few seconds a time. Many years ago I did a lot of ham radio direction finding competitions. It's pretty easy to locate, within an hour, a transmitter located 8 miles aways.

>>32303916
i live in a major city and i can tune my baofeng to listen to police/fire/ems

>>32305008
yeah but if you just test your radios on FRS and then turn them off. how would you find them? also if you are using them while driving it would be impossible to locate wouldnt it? airshitters use them in huge numbers all over the country and no one every shits on them.

>>32305077
No one is going to bother you on FRS. That band is a shit show that hams ignore and FCC doesn't care to bother with.

>>32304974
I would doppler shift the fuck out of you. I am a patient man. Then I would turn over my findings and data to my local FCC enforcement branch.

>>32305077
Nobody gives a flying fuck about FRS, GMRS or MURS

>>32305109
>>32305136
then what the fuck is everyone worried about. You don't need to use anything else. use get a UV5R and learn how to do everything and only talk on FRS/GMRS until SHTF

>>32305136
No one uses MURS, which makes it the perfect band to use of the unlicensed space. If you can find some 902-928 radios, they are awesome since the cordless phone and baby monitors went to 2.4ghz

>>32305116
you sound like an autistic faggot.

>>32303974
>Not being an electrical engineer and building your own radio
Shiggy diggy.

>>32305155
Because some dopes start keying up and acting up on 144-148 or in the VHF public safety band. Want the FCC to come looking, interfere with a licensed service. Stick to Murs/gmrs/FRS and no one will give half a shit.

>>32304974
I only need a few seconds. I'll have your range and bearing. Plot that on a map from my current position and your ass is mine!

>>32305159
MURS i.e. red dot, blue dot and green dot are used pretty heavily in my area by big box stores and construction companies.

>>32305176
not when there are hundreds of people in that area or its an active highway

>>32305204
No, the anon is right. DF'ing RF is really easy.

>>32305162
That might very well be true, be I'm intelligent and love fucking over normies because I can...

>>32305204
Like I said, I'm a patient man...eventually I'll find you

>>32305136

USAF Rescue Service uses GMRS to communicate between ground teams and spotter craft

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>>32305162
Do you really expect people who choose operating radios as a hobby to NOT be autistic faggots?

>>32305252
Hey, I've been a ham for 22 years. Me, tripwhoring, tells you all you need to know about ham radio.

>>32303916
the baofengs can still be used to scan most metropolitain frequencies as most cities dual broadcast on fm for the benefit of smaller surrounding departments that cant afford to upgrade to the new standards.

further, most of the country hasnt upgraded as they simply dont have the moneys for the licensing or equipment and wait on fed grants.

>>32305252
Cars, Guns, Pussy and Radio...it's all I got, man. It's great being retired at 44

>>32302459
and Drakes.

those were the giants

>>32305252

most hams are more autistic than gun owners and more fudd too

its cool though, at least they care and can talk about something other than TV shows and Mac Miller

>>32305334
>as most cities dual broadcast on fm for the benefit of smaller surrounding departments


Say what? You know, 22+ years of being a radio geek, 17 years of working in public safety, what you're saying is no common at all. While there are some cross band repeaters out there, they are very limited in that they are just one or two mutual aid frequencies. Even the old fire department analog pagers are becoming a thing of the past.

>>32305136
Is this true?

>>32305245
Yeah but how often are you actually going to be getting in their way?

>>32305426
>Is this true?
Yes

>>32305426
>Yeah but how often are you actually going to be getting in their way?
Never.

>>32304990
more like keep dickheads with cheap equipment off emcomm frequencies and open up the bandwidth for other uses

>>32305663
Nah dude, I work in that system. We just went to a $60m P25 motorola system that's full time encrypted. It was all about keeping things private, it had nothing to do with ecomm tards, that was never even discussed.

is a uv5r a good SHTF two way handheld?
open to suggestions, want something reasonably affordable and tough/good
canada /k/ommando here eh

i have some questions about baofeng AA battery packs. I have one and both of my radios will not transmit when i use the battery pack. it just cherps and doesnt transmitt. it will still receive. It worked fine for the life of the batteries and after i swapped them it never worked again. i tried bending all the connections so that they were in contact with the batteries and shit but it just doesn't fix the problem.

i also have a rechargable battery that just plain doesnt work. if it was run down to zero would it never charge again?

Maybe you can help me. Otr trucker here. In the US we use cb. I understand it. In canada they use vhf. I do canada fairly often. Can i get a radio that does both? That i can program frequency through the radio without a laptop? I haul oversize loads and need to communicate with pilot cars. The extra distance would be nice as well

>>32305008
I've been to a couple of those competitions in my country but they were always held in rural areas.
I'd like to see someone locate a relatively weak UHF signal source in an urban environment.

>>32305879
No, you won't find one that's FCC type accepted. Just get two radios. It will be cheaper.

>>32305884
The principles are the same and we did ours just outside of Philly. Very deadly populated.

>>32305237
>Transmit for 5 seconds
>Move
>Wait awhile
>Do it again
>Move
"Dear FCC, somebody keeps keying up on 146.520 and saying Benis. Here's a bunch of places they used to be pls fine post-haste. -73, WA1FAG"

>>32305907
idk what tech you used but local agencies seem to have a lot of trouble locating hams that break rules, and hams typically use over 20W mobiles

>>32305862
Take out one battery.

>>32305897
Thanks. Thats what i figured but i wasnt sure.

Reminder that type restrictions on MURS are literally communism, and you're fighting the Red Menace by using radios made by the red menace on it.

>>32305952
it takes 6 AAs if i take one out i have to take two out and it wont turn on,

>>32305977
What happens if you only take one out?

>>32305940
We used stuff we built, LPDA antennas, mobile an portable receivers, and staged attenuators that did 100+ db of attention. It really wasn't hard. We'd do 12 competitions a year with some fun practice session. We knew what we were doing. The problem is your local agencies really don't know have they're doing. They try and figure it out on the fly and really don't have experience or a plan on how to win.

>>32305937
hams are usually assholes and they like to spook people with "u gonna get fucked by FCC"

The whole process from direction finding to building a case against someone takes time and money.
FCC doesn't care if faggot harasses hams with a 50$ chinese radio unless he causes actual damage.
FCC likes to go after organizations and companies that break rules because that's where the money is at.

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>>32305981
it doesn't turn on and the other battery that i left in the thing just slides around.

>guise look at my comms
>so operator
>baofeng is the best because it comes up first when you order "radio" by lowest price first in amazon
>i dont know how to use it though
>ham is a food not a radio why would i need a license

ITT

>>32305937
Or, I can RF fingerprint the transmissions/transmitter and get you when you talking nonsense on the local repeater (of course listening on the input)

>>32306004
I know that, I was just laying out a realistic situation.

-t. Ham

This is rubber duck, come in rubber duck

>>32306004
If you make enough noise to the FCC and build the case for them, they will act and send the warning letter. That's enough to make all but the k1man like nitwits stop.

I suggested this to a guy on /out/. If you really want a cheap rugged radio, buy a used Motorola HT1000, programming cable, and a longer antenna. I got a few to resell, and they were so good that I kept a few.

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Mauldroppers.com
You're welcome /k/

>>32306012
>it doesn't turn on and the other battery that i left in the thing just slides around.
Because the circuit isn't being closed numbnuts
>>32305981
>>32305977
>>32305952
>>32305862
You need a dummy battery. Something that completes the circuit but that doesn't add any voltage.

>>32306025
So you'd waste your and the government's time to make a random dude get a fine he's probably never going to pay?

Radio can be an expensive as fuck hobby. Baofeng's are okay starter radios. Read everything by https://sparks-31.blogspot.com/ who writes for a 3% audience. I recently got an AOR 8200 for receiving only monitoring. The 8200D can decrypt P25 but you can also set up SDR's to do that too. I have an Elecraft KX3 but I don't really like it as much as I thought I would. Saving for a Yaesu FT-991. By all means get an RTL-SDR, it is a cheap and easy way to get started. Use SDR# to tune into frequencies.

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>>32306096
explain it to me

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>>32305780
Uv5r is an excellent way to get your feet wet in comms for $30. Get a radio, and a programming cable, download CHIRP, read a bunch, and get your tech license. Then you can blow $300 on an upscale box if you want. Learn.

>>32306105
It takes a lot to get a notice of forfeiture. The warning letter is a reality wake up for 99% of the idiots. It shows them that shit just got real and they were not as smart as they thought, since they got caught.

>>32306114
Replace one of those batteries with a spring, tinfoil, length of wire, or anything conductive that will hold the rest in place.

>>32306105
Welcome to Amateur radio. It's not autism, it's a lifestyle.

>>32306058
You'd have to prove the individual in question is really the one who transmitted without a license at exactly the time and on exactly the frequency the disturbances happened.
I personally know hams who "went after" people and nothing ever happened because there was no proof.

>>32306148
From what I've seen, nothing happens even when there is proof.
RF shitposting isn't a problem in my area, thankfully.

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What's with all the poorfag UV5R's?
Get a real HT.

>>32306114
The UV5R uses a 7.4V battery.
AA batteries are 1.5V each.
6 AAs in series would over volt the radio by 1.5V
5 AAs in series would apply an appropriate voltage around ~7.5V

You need to get a dummy AA that doesn't add any voltage, but that still completes the circuit.

https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Occupying-Placeholder-Cylinder-Shipping/dp/B010NDAITG/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1481592866&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=dummy+AA&psc=1

I can't believe I'm explaining this shit I really should be studying PDEs.

>>32300904
Does anyone use these?
I would like to get one but I'd like to know what the quality is like before buying.

>>32306202
hey man, i didn't know this and you helped me out by explaining the reasoning. you dont have to be salt about it. thank you.

>>32306202
>PDE's.
Goodness; please, remind us how smart you are.

>>32306261
Yeah that was a poorly chosen.

>>32306224
Just funneling my alcoholic father.

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>>32306199
He says, posting his poorfag HT.

>>32300960
>>32300967
>Had a job offer at Harris, ended up going to a financial institution. Randomly ran into recruiter from Harris two weeks ago, and it turns out my job offer still stands anytime I want to go.

Should I do it? Would make 5k more a year and not have to pay income tax. Cost of living is more expensive in FL though.

>>32306168
They last step the FCC does it a notice of forfeiture. It rarely has to get there. The notice of violation, from the FCC, spelling out the potential for fines in excess of $10k is enough to make all but the biggest of the fucktards knock it off.

As you can see, the FCC does act from time to time.

https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/Welcome.html

As more VHF/UHF ham activities move to digital, the nonsense is no where near what it was back in the 90s. Ironically the worst offenders back then were the grumpy old men who were unhappy about the no-code techs. As it turned out the 20wpm QCWA guys were the ones causing the most malicious interference.

>>32306400
>not have to pay income tax
How are you not paying income tax? Do you mean that FL has no income tax? You're still not absolved from federal taxes, which are always more than state taxes. FL just gets its taxes via a higher sales tax. The only benefit is that FL has the lowest gov't spending per resident. Switching job for just $5k is not really enough to make a jump.

>>32306446
That's a great part of digital, the anti digital HURR DURR NOT REAL RADIO people can't interfere, since they'd have a stroke if they touched anything made after 1970.

>>32306446
How would one prove that a dude has a radio and uses it in the first place?
Chink radios are everywhere and many users have no licenses.

>>32306501
Radio direction finding and RF fingerprinting. Each radio has an RF signature, like a fingerprint and it's unique to that radio. this is not new stuff. It's been around for decades. It's really easy to prove that a radio is the radio behind the interference.

When you get the idea that you're smarter than people who build their own radios, have spent 25+ years toying with RF devices, and know how to catch someone who is fucking around - you're in for a lot of trouble you can easily avoid by just staying on FRS/GMRS/MURS. There's always one who thinks they can't get caught, and it's what they don't know that leads to them getting nailed and nailed hard.

>>32306571
I think I understand how it can be done in the suburbs and such, but most apartment buildings in cities have dozens of apartments and hundreds of people living inside. Pinpointing a dude fucking with a repeater with a 50$ radio can't possibly be easy.

Regarding RF fingerprinting; I doubt someone would be dumb enough to use the same radio to communicate and to fuck around with.

>>32306105
Yes, yes I would...

>>32306677
It isn't. Not unless you're broadcasting a ton.

If you broadcast for even 10 seconds, then broadcast again a few minutes later there is literally no risk.

If they somehow even pin pointed your location, they can't pin point it to even 100 feet unless they're right outside your house anyways. It could be any of your neighbors.

These people are fucking dumb.

Source: I transmit all the time because I'm tired of these ham radio faggots acting like they're a secret society. I don't shit up the frequency and spam bullshit though.

>>32305937
>Benis
WHO TOLD YOU?

>>32306677
Never underestimate human stupidity. A transmitter is a transmitter. As you, the hunter, get closer, you start using your attenuator to add 10 db of attenuation at a time, you'll keep getting closer and closer and the signal will get stronger as more attenuation was added. Really, it's a lot easier than you think. DF'ing today is no more complicated than it was in the 40's. This is using gear that is nothing fancy. There are DF'ing array antennas that are much faster and more accurate with a shorter signal. With those tools, a heading can be ascertained with less than 100ms of signal. The array detectors are just a couple of hundred dollars as a kit.

>>32306759
I would too. The govt always collects even it it means seizing everything you own.

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пpивeлeгии 1-1, этo yгнeтaтeль 4-2. Bижy фeмoк c тyмблepa нa 12 чacoв

I've got VX-900, and 924 radios for FSB memes

>>32306400
>FL
It is not that bad dude, go for it

so theoretically, how does someone shitpost on the air with "PENIS PENIS HAMFAGS ARE GAY" without getting caught? just take the radio around in the car when you drive? id love to troll me some autistic retards who have a false sense of self importance

>>32306769
Look, you don't really know what your talking about. I spent many years geeking out doing ham DF competitions. We were able to find a 100mw transmitter in pile of pine needles, we started 8 miles away and we found it in less than an hour. The transmitter transmitted it's call sign in cw for no more than 6 seconds at a time.

There are always people who think they can't get caught our are too smart to get caught. They almost always get caught. Arrogance and ignorance go well together.

>>32306800
There have been cases of Russian spies using satellite comms to communicate with Russia from western Europe.
They used relatively powerful transmitters on UHF for decades without being pinpoined.

How does a couple of mentally-ill old hams outdo whole counterintelligence agencies?

>>32306865
You have that a bit backwards. Russians loved one time pads. The transmitter was known to be Russian. What the US didn't know was who was receiving. The Cuban numbers stations are still doing this today.

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>>32306890
I'm not referring to numbers stations.
Satellite communication equipment has been supposedly seized in Germany in a few cases in the 2000's.
Spies would send messages via Russian military and naval satellites in one direction and receive messages from numbers stations.

>>32306946
Can you cite those cases?

>>32306923
Seems OK. The stock antenna is not designed for operating on those freqs. Eventually the high SWRs will burn up the transmitter.

>>32306923
Your pmr channels are smack in the ham band in the US. Pmr is used in the EU.

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Zynq + 30RF

>>32306958
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/15/married-pair-russian-spies-germany

there are a couple more but I'm gonna have to look them up again

>>32306973
An HT is such low power that a 3:1 swr won't reflect enough RF to cause an issue. Now, your ERP will be even less than it was on the negative gain HT antenna but your not going to burn up any finals.

>>32307010

better one

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trial-of-russian-spies-in-germany-strains-diplomatic-relations-a-908975.html

>A treasure in the exhibit room at the German Federal Criminal Police Office in the western city of Wiesbaden has aroused a great deal of curiosity among the world's intelligence agencies. It looks like an ordinary, black laptop bag. It contains a Siemens hard drive, or at least it looks that way. But a notch reveals that it is not an off-the-shelf product. It's a high-frequency satellite transmitter, with an antenna hidden in the flap of the bag.

>>32306862
You're retarded.

If you aren't transmitting every 15 mins even there's no way you could find someone transmitting.

If someone TXs for 5 seconds to say nigger faggot, leaves it for 20 mins and then says it again, that person tracing them would have no idea where they are unless they're actively seeking the transmission.

In order to know where the signal is coming from you need to be transmitting. You would be driving in circles until that circle got smaller and smaller and you finally found it. By then the Transmitter would have to at least transmit 5 times and do it often enough that you could even find it.

Like I said, if someone transmits every 30 minutes or whatever, there's no way you're finding it until you can triangulate, and by that point it'd take hours.

>>32306973
Good antenna replacement that doesn't cost as much as the radio?

I'm 99% on MURS, I just have the other shit on there because a random chart I found said they were relatively useful.

>>32306975
only in the EU? Sounds like a waste of presets that I need to scroll through.

Do you have any recommendations I should use in PMR's place?

>>32307034
And the difference here is that they were a needle in an RF haystack. If you're going to buy a chicom radio and cause interference, to licensed services, then you're not really hiding. In fact you're being about as noisy as you can be by provoking people where they listen. There's a really big difference.

>>32307044
>underestimates the patience and determination of retired sperglords

>>32307137
Tracking someone down requires money for gas,food and for bail when you get arrested for trespassing. Old fart hams are usually cheap and would rather spend the money on a 30 year old radio and vodka.

What handhelds should I grab(pick any scenario you want that I would need them). What should I grab that scans local fire/police/ems freqs?

>>32307044
I get that you want to call people retard or nigger or anything else. But, you don't have a clue what you're talking about and you have no practical experience with DF'ing. You're just making up absurd number to justify something you know nothing about.

I don't need to drive in circles at all. I can triangulate you with three signal readings and each one can be as short as 100ms. If I have two other helping me, then the time to find you is 1/10 of what it would take to do it myself.

That will get me to within a few hundreds yards of your location. 3 more readings from within that triangle and I have your location to within a few meters.

Please, do us all a favor and do some research on this subject before you keep arguing with made up numbers that you think support your lack of understanding of the subject.

I know you want to pop off about this, but, I really did do this as a hobby and our team was really good at it, winning about half the competitions we entered. It's far easier than you think, it was easy back in the late 90's and with the advent of things like arduino and raspberry Pi, it's gotten much easier, faster, cheaper, and more accurate with less signal time.

>>32307065
Marine channels. 16 and 72 for sure.

>>32307137
I know right, some of the guy in the hobby will make it a mission to track down RFI. They are obsessed and in some ways it's funny and geek cool all at once.

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>>32307162
They will find you...

>>32307181
How you deal with reflections and legal users transmitting on the same frequencies?
I understand how something like a faulty gsm base station can eventually be pinpointed, but a random asshole with a baofeng is like a dim candle in a concrete labyrinth full of all possible kinds of noise.

>>32307181
You are a fat fucking sperglord.

Even if you somehow did trace someone, which you couldn't unless that person is transmitting plenty, the FCC won't give a single shit unless it's directly interfering with other people's shit, aka jamming a repeater or shit like that.

If some retard pulled up in his truck and tucked his fat into his pants to come knock on my door and "give me a lesson on ham radios" I really wouldn't give a fuck, neither would anyone else.

Let's say someone has a ham radio and a license, and they transmit without using their callsign. Some fat retard like you traces him, nothing comes of it, so you report him to the FCC. The fcc won't do shit, but let's say they do this time, they have no proof that the person transmitted or was doing anything illegal on their radio.

So the fcc is fucked for proof, and you're sitting there with a thumb in your ass.

Stop trying to scare people into getting their license like it's some secret fucking club

>>32307273
Narrowband FM and USB/LSB AM popping up out of the noise where they're not supposed to be are pretty evident. Say you transmit in a satellite downlink band for some reason. Your "dim candle" is going to look like a fucking forest fire compared to a satellite signal.

>>32307273
so much edge in this post.
Who do you think the FCC is going to believe? A licensed HAM who probably has a recording of your transmission or some kid who thinks the world is his playground and his actions don't have consequences.

>>32307273
You are a dimwit little boy who thinks it's ok to bother serious people.

Go learn something useful.

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>>32307339
>kid farts into chink radio
>hams use miracle technology to trace him based only on a few seconds of transmission
>hams hack into kid's ebay account and prove the kid ordered the radio
>hams brag about the whole event for decades to come

>>32307346
I get it, you spent time and money and all that shit getting a ham radio, learning it, etc and you want people to respect your hobby.

But the truth is no one really gives a fuck, this isn't 1970.

Cb is relatively dead and so is ham radio. Local repeaters are almost always empty except for the 2 hour talks that happen once a month.

The only conversations I can ever pick up on locally are right before hurricanes hit, and for 2 hours every Wednesday night or some shit. Local repeaters are dead, even after call outs.

So I'm some kinda voyeur fag who finds the idea of listening to avid radio operators or construction crews or police in a city fascinating. Do you guys think it'd be weird or wrong to buy a cheap handheld and just listen in? I don't wanna step on anyone's toes and I know next to nothing about radio operation, just curious conceptually.

>>32307424
So why are you so upset and feel the need to antagonize everyone?
Did a radio rape you as a child?

>>32307399

>Fat Bob goes silent key
>Fat Bob's crowning achievement was to finally catch that LID with a baofeng

>>32307434
You hide in the bushes and watch your neighbors fuck too?

>>32307436
These faggots act like they have a secret society with a strict police force that shits on anyine that breaks their "law"

>>32307466
On the sixth floor, I don't need bushes. Nobody ever looks up.

>>32307424
Electrons! How do they work?

jesus christ you guys sure fagged this thread up, didn't you?

>>32307479
I guess it's difficult for someone without the technical background to understand how fucking important the radio to low microwave spectrum is...
Everything you use operates on it.
Radars, Commercial aircraft communications, television, broadcast radio, space communications, cellular phones, door bells, key fobs, WiFi. The list goes on and on and on. It's a serious thing.

A couple of Megahertz of licensing go for billions of dollars. And the spectrum is getting more and more crowded as more wireless devices are added.

So if you have a really really important asset that is becoming clogged very quickly, you can't have people misusing it.

>>32307545
They are still trying to take 1.25cm band away from hams

>>32300893
not yeasu

>>32307545
Nobody said anything about jamming actually important coms.There's plenty of space on license-free bands if you're an airsoft fag or if you wanna transfer your porn to your friend's computer via rf modem. There's really no reason to use licensed bands.

>>32307624
So your quip is, why can't I call whoever I want a faggot without consequence?

How mature.

>>32307681
Hams seem to be okay with jamming and insulting each other to the point of physical conflict, but when something from the outside happens to interfere with their communication for a mere second, they start playing some kind of victim.
My dad was a ham for 40 years and I heard what really happens most of the time on ham bands.

Hurr Durr I'm operating a repeater on an uncoordinated pair...

If I just want to talk to my brother at his house like 10mi away (forested, rural, NE) via radio and didn't want to get a license what do?
Get a uv5r and stay on MURS?

>>32306209
I got one. Haven't used it to much but it works decent. Make sure you plug it all the way in. You think it's in but it's not and it sounds like shit. Almost returned it until I really pressed it in

>>32304150
Friggin spooks. Biggest candy-asses at Corry Station.

>>32307913
10 miles? Your gonna need a good antenna mounted high, but doable with a uv5r

>>32307265
So that's what virgins drive around in.

>>32306343
underrated masterpiece

>>32308016
A roll up jpole inside a pvc pipe at 25 feet should work

>>32308032
It's like a VX-7 but with better quality control. Seriously the only analog HT I ever need.

>>32308016
All depends on location and altitude. I can't hit repeaters 10 miles to the west, due to a hill, but I can hit a UHF repeater 55 miles away since it's on a mountain.

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General class hamfag here

>>32301620
qrp only...... don't waste the money. buy a yaesu ft-450d

>>32308132
i meant the post.

so /k/ radio nerds, what do i buy that will do MURS, FRS, and all that ham radio shit, but from a good and reliable manufacturer, which isn't the worst thing on earth to program?

>>32308016
10mi would be max most likely.
I dont really know anything but am willing to spend a few hundos and do some reading if that's what it takes, just need a proper heading.
Just need better walkies for hunting and camping basically

>>32304698
Code brown is an active shooter. Maybe not the best idea.

Hi, I'm a niggerfaggot.

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>>32305252

> Can't pass a simple 35 question test that doesn't cover memes and involves math
> Has nobody to talk to and nothing to say
> Attention span of a gnat

>>32308395
>what is portable hf

>>32306025
But then you'd still have no means of actually identifying him.

>>32305780

It's not a bad radio. It does everything important that an expensive amateur radio *should* do (tx/rx offsets, DCS codes, PL tones), and has some nice but limited features (a few memories and text labels on saved presets).

It doesn't have a *lot* of preset memories and it's only about 4 watts (you can do a lot with low power and a good antenna) and it's not waterproof.

Again- not bad. Licensed general and I have a couple of them. Others, too, but I use these a lot with non-hams and in places where I don't want my good radios to get fuxored.

>>32305397
>Even the old fire department analog pagers are becoming a thing of the past.

Every VFD in my area still uses the pagers, and my city uses the digital trunking as well as a FM.

>>32305702
the whole point of the P25 system is scalability and the eventual interconectivity of all emergency services. Which is why encryption is needed in the first place.

There are bigger plans afoot than your department and the compatability of systems is being driven by DHS.

Im glad your department found the money to jump on board. But dont fool yourself into thinking that anyone but you and a few others gives a shit what you're saying over the air in a random tuesday at 3am.

also, you need to check your bullshit because you aint the only one on this board with a ham that works in the field.

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Is it possible to have private or encrypted comms on a Baofeng?

>>32309827
Speak in code. That's about it.

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Soviet R105-M

Wouldn't mind getting something just to have so my bother and I can communicate incase if SHTF. Do I go with these Chinese baofang units from Amazon? Not looking to dump a ton of time into training though

>>32305116
>>32305176

so you would have the position of a handheld mobile radio until it moves

good job

kek

>>32309771
>interconectivity
And yet that's been the biggest issue with neighboring counties and those using OpenSky/BrokenSky. Welp, the discussions were very clear on the reason for full time encryption. There's no technical reason for using it. In fact, it cause more problems than it solves. I love when the radio don't decode. It happens so often that the comm center and the users just reply back "You went digital" because of the horrible digital sound that emanates for the radio for 2 seconds.

>>32309696
Then you're an oddity in that they're maintaining three seems when they don't need to.

>>32309556
Keep trying with the excuses.

>>32309495
Every night. I go to bed and the canadian johnny shows up to shitpost. The flag on pol is helpful.

>>32307272
>How you deal with reflections and legal users transmitting on the same frequencies?
It's not a problem at all. It's easy enough to discern your target from other users.

>>32307273
>You are a fat fucking sperglord
Really? Are we going to go this route again? I think you argument has run out of gas if this is now your tactic.

>>32307346
How cold is it in canada tonight? Like clockwork, you've shown up yet again.

>>32300893
Any Canadians know the legal steps to being allowed to anything above fsr frequencies?

>>32310946
Start here:

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf01862.html

>>32310703
It's exactly that attitude that will get you caught

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>>32305937

No one likes a rat of a snitch, anon.

So what's the point of getting a UV5R if you can't even use it legally. If neckbeards are gonna rat you out because they actually got shilled out to giving money to get licenses.

Like what if you're trying to communicate with another person (private party, P2P), i see the whole Baofeng thing irrelevant.

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>>32307265

And do what?

Complain?

I'd slap the fuck out of any tucked in shirt, ball cap wearing cuck that steps out of this Lexus.

>>32311161
I will rat you out in a heartbeat, son. Nobody likes a lil twerp shitting up the airwaves meant for those who are technically capable and legally licensed either.

>>32310703
Let's reduce this to plots on a map. Where you gonna do this? On your way to work? The grocery store? Can you resist the urge to do it from your living room?

I will establish a pattern. I will find you.

>>32311223
Ive been known to slash tires and break antennas...just saying

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>thing thing
>middle of winter in Lapland
>my fingers have dexterity of hotdog. No way I'm removing my mittens
>use tactical stick to operate the radio

Oh the horror

>>32311302
*this thing

>>32310836
>And yet that's been the biggest issue with neighboring counties and those using OpenSky/BrokenSky.

just because it doesnt work right now doesnt mean its not going to work at some point, but everyone has to be on board and have the money. Believe me, Im well aware of the problems with it.

>It happens so often that the comm center and the users just reply back "You went digital" because of the horrible digital sound that emanates for the radio for 2 seconds

I know, that sound. You using the moto 2500 or sister series?

those are the worst offenders. If you reprogram the radio when it starts happening often then it normally wont do it for a while before it starts acting up again

>>32310703
I bet the guy in FL that was using a cell jammer in his car to fuck with everyone else on the road though hed never get caught either, now he lost his house.

you clearly dont understand the tech, and so you will walk right into a pile of shit, we dont even have to do anything.

Is there any way to get a digital police scanner to pick up encrypted signals? Is that legal?

>>32311332
Yeah, where i live the police and sherriffs have all gone NAC. But fire and EMT remain open to monitor.

>>32306400
Do it, FL is okay,

>>32300893
Why the fuck have u not programmed it to a repeater?

>>32312484
because OP is an unlicensed operator with no technical know how or comprehension of repeater offset

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Maybe some day I'll get the right fucking U94. note: do NOT just jam things into holes.

>>32311376
Digital scanner, yes. Breaking AES encryption, nope.

so if i have a Baofeng UV-5r and only want to use it on FRS will the FCC come fuck me?

>>32313001
Probably not, but on high power it far exceeds the regulations on power limitations

>>32313511
Ive got it on low power so i should be good.

Any infographics?

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>>32314205

Does anybody here use DMR?

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>>32300893
muh 320

>>32304479
>tfw I keep accidentally activating the panic button instead of switching to FM

>>32308395
QRP is for the skilled. 1 kW amps are for the lazy. There is a good reason why you require a lot of training in signal service. TX at the lowest ERP possible to avoid falling into the net of the people listening in.

Ob. radio primer paste: http://pastebin.com/9uYXMhVm

>>32315415
>QRP is for the skilled
QRP is for the poor that can't afford a good amp and antennas. Unless you're mountain topping, QRP is a joke.

>>32313001
No one will give a shit.

>>32311332
We had great interop until neighboring counties went with different digital systems. It's been a joke. The State Police recently spent $11m to upgrade the VHF system that BrokenSky was supposed to replace. BrokenSky went down during and ice storm and analog vhf was up like a champ. Oh, not to mention that PSP will use vhf national for interop due to all the digital issues.

Then, the terrain here is not real conducive to 700/800mhz and the promised "on road" coverage will never realize, so that's still an issue and then when you get off road in the woods for a search and rescue, it get's more fun.

Digital systems have been great for motorola stockholders and that's about it. The costs are bankrupting smaller agencies and volunteer fire/ems companies. Some of those companies had to delay buying a new engine by a few years to be able to shell out the $120k in radio costs that were forced on them. Oh, and the contract with motorola prohibits bringing any used radios on the system. So everything has be bought new from the vendor. Nice.

>>32315707
Lol Motorola.

>>32304929
>Also, then why can't civs use encrypted?
There is a LOT of cold war rules still on the books. Back in the day spies called home on radio and it was of utmost importance to locate them immediately and bag them.

Therein lies a lot of attitude too: spies were executed pretty quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pastorius
>The trial for the eight defendants ended on 1 August 1942. Two days later, all were found guilty and sentenced to death. Roosevelt commuted Burger's sentence to life in prison and Dasch's to 30 years because they had turned themselves in and provided information about the others. The others were executed on 8 August 1942 in the electric chair on the third floor of the District of Columbia jail and buried in a potter's field in the Blue Plains neighborhood in the Anacostia area of Washington.

If you think agencies are heavy handed in tapping everything on the Internet you can imagine what they do on radio.

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>>32300893
>finally an actual comm thread that's fairly productive and most people haven't gone total retard
aaaaaaand of course I'm late to the party

>>32315812
Besides all that, the FCC and much of the amateur community wants to keep amateur radio from being considered an alternative to commercial systems for encrypted radio.

>>32315707
Look closer: I never said anything about an antenna. Quite to the contrary a good antenna is considered part of the fields skill of a signal serviceman.

Positioning yourself on a mountain top invites for being located with precision more quickly and that is bad form. You will also be caught by battlefield optical intelligence (drones etc). You need to be more stealthy.

Again: there is a reason why training a signal serviceman takes time.

>>32315827
Haha #rekt. Fag.

>>32315887
QRP is a joke practiced by the oddest of the odd ham radio operators.

>>32315929
>Hurr durr stop liking what I don't like
Sorry that you have no interest in engineering, brainlet.

>>32315929
go back to africa.

>>32315929
Eat a dick you Hunter 3-1 wannabe

>>32315929
QRP is a necessity for survival in the armed forces and in tradecraft.

So what is your background in radio tech then?

>>32316076
We're talking about ham radio, you dope. Not your GI Joe fantasy. Analog govt communications are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Now beat it knucklehead, let the adults talk.

>>32315988
Is that like an insult or something? That's fine, I'm happy with that. Not everyone can drop $10k/yr to go to Africa.

>>32306400
You dubbed yourself.

More money, better gun laws, better job?

Fucking do it.

>>32316016
I was here long before than namefag. It's like you're new here or something.

>Since 2008

Anyone have any experience on the TRI AN/PRC-152 radios?

http://www.tacticalgeartrade.com/prc-152.html

>>32312921
I'll break the encryption on your face.

>>32316148
Go bitch at patchfags you ass blasted cock whore. Oh wait, they booted your ass out.

say i want to hook my Howard Leight EarPros up to my midland radio (until i can get something better)

Is there a stand-alone boom mic i can attach in-line to the muffs, then connect them to a PTT and the radio, or will i be stuck having a big clunky shoulder mic like LEOs use?

>>32316221
I'll backtrace your radio signal emission and notify the airwave police. Don't mess with me, kid.

>>32316271
You are probably the biggest cock sucking faggot I have ever seen on this board.

>>32316284
No u.

>>32316271
Oh, here we go with the angst from the future 30 year old basement dwellers.

>>32316221
Really? When, where?

>>32316197
That makes no sense at all

>>32316284
Thanks for sharing. Keep coming back, it really does work

>>32316254
Crack out gigaparts, Texas towers, ham radio outlet, or AES. One of them will have something you can use. Aircraft part suppliers can be good for that stuff as well.

>>32300979
luke?

>>32316271
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>>32316341
>I am a real cop and I'll report your ass
Being a mall cop doesn't count faggot.

>>32316098
This is /k/. And the question above still stands.

>>32316392
>mall cop
The state of PA would disagree with you. Heck I can remember the last time I was in a mall.

>>32316393
Go read the full thread, you'll find your answer. I have no reason to assist a reality disconnect ape such as yourself.

>>32316412
>PA cop
Uh huh yeah sure

>>32316393
Sorry I am a retard. I cannot answer your question even if I wanted to.

There! Is that the answer you wanted? Is your micropenis satisfied now you fucking cyberbully?

Lmao at all you kids getting assblasted. The only legitimate use for ham radio is for getting some money back on old equipment I don't want anymore, and DFing kids like you.
Stay mad.

>>32316254
you mean like a ghetto rigged sort of poor mans Comtac?

maybe if youre creative with soldering and butchering electronics.

>>32316430
PA LEO, yes. As much has it hurt you to hear it, I enjoy watching you rage at what's not only true, but documented, and verifiable. I really take joy in posts like yours. It's quite the Tuesday night pre-primetime entertainment.

>>32316254
Considered a throat mic?

My sister has a moustache.

>>32316665
But does she suck the donger?

>>32316665
Ever bone her? If she ain't good enough for her brother then she ain't good enough for me!

>>32304150
is that circular structure part of the antannea or a sudo feraday cage to keep HF shit out?

>>32316673
She sucks her own donger.
She let me lick it once. AMA

>>32316696
*Pseudo *Farady : ^ )

It's all an antenna.

>>32316606
You know it's illegal to claim your a cop and not be one right?

>>32316733
You know its illegal to not shut the fuck up?

>>32316710
Did you tongue her musky balls?

>>32316733
That doesn't worry me. I am a current LEO in PA, certified and in good standing. How angry does it make you that I get sweet discounts on firearms, ammo, accessories, and can carry in all 50 states and the district of columbia? How awesome is that. You know that IWI gives a 36% discount to LEOs. A new Tavor for $1000. Glocks and S&Ws for under $400.

>>32316641
I heard they were shitty so i hadnt considered them.

unless they arent actually shitty?

>>32316585
about what i figured. I'll probably have to settle for a sholder mic even though its probably get in the way

>>32306476
Have you lived in MN?

>>32316776
I've heard everything from "They're shit" to "They're the best.

>>32316741
Stay calm doorknob licker.
>>32316764
And yet you can't prove any of this. Because you're lying your ass off.

David
Ida
Lincoln
Lincoln
Ida
George
Adam
Frank

>>32316793
Check the archive you dope.

>>32316779
God no, that would never be an option. I'd live in Haiti before MN.

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Is this really one person?

>>32316825
A lot less AIDS infected jiggaboos in Haiti

>>32315929
What the fuck did you just fucking record for me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Voice Actors Guild, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret bulletins on /k/ radio, and I have over 300 confirmed listeners. I am trained in aural warfare and I’m the top correspondent in the entire /k/ News Team. You are nothing to me but just another listener. I will ear-rape you with precision the likes of which has never been heard before on these airwaves, mark my smoothly spoken and professionally recorded words. You think you can get away with sending that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of announcers across the internet and your mp3 is being laughed at right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your voice. You’re fucking deaf, kid. I can record anything, anytime, and I can broadcast to you on over seven hundred frequencies, and that’s just with my shitty smartphone. Not only am I extensively trained in vocal combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the /k/ Signal Corps and I will use it to its full extent to transmit your miserable story anyway, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” recording was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit well-enunciated fury all over your ears and you will drown in it. Your voice fucking sucks, kiddo.

>>32307002
>Zynq + 30RF
Implementing/developing your own encrypted, digital mode?

Jealous and want.

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>>32316842
what do you think. There's a lot of cancer on this board that likes to pretend to be others. It's their way of shitting up the place.

>>32316902
Yeah this diseased wise-ass thinks he's me. Lol

>>32306861
The traditional answer is mobility.

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>>32316842
Yeah, so what?
I'm allowed to defend myself on 4chan.

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Samefag

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>>32317009
You got me.

hello I know nothing of communication devices. what do i buy for longest range between myself and my team?
do I need anything besides rwo way radios or radios and that base thing?

I just want an alternative to comunícate with my family when the cellphone goes down

>>32317080
Grab some old VHF business band radios and use MURS. More power than the walkie talkies you can get at box stores, and longer range due to better antennas and a lower band. No license needed, and used commercial equipment is dirt cheap.

>>32317080
the longest length of string you can find, tape it between cups

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>>32311302
>thinking an RF fingerprint is circumvented by using a stick
>tfw RF stickprint is new identifier

>>32317192
What makes you think he meant a RF fingerprint?

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>>32300893
>HF/6M:

FT-450D. ~$450, 100W, built in antenna tuner, shack in a box pretty much.

>VHF/UHF
Couple of Baofengs, and an old AM 2M rig from the 50s. Oh, and some SDR stuff.

>>32303974
They look cool but there's really not much to gain from an old tube rig, except maybe EMP resistance. Even a very basic modern radio is going to have leaps and bounds better performance, 50 years of electronics engineering actually makes a difference.

>>32304479
Not sure if serious. Best uninstall car radio to be sure.

>>32309540
Ft-817 / 857

>>32315415
>>32315707
QRP is HF operating on hard mode, pretty much. You need a ridiculous amount of patience to work stations, much less DX.

There's also the people who spend $20,000 on a rig / amp / antenna and need to justify it to themselves constantly. You can get amazing performance out of a piece of old telephone wire, if you do some math and make sure everything is tuned properly.

I've been licenced as a ham since I was 12, I can definitely share a few stories if there's interest.

>>32317295
Do tell.

>>32317295
Share please, I know nothing about radios.

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>>32306199
>"real HT"
>posts Yaesu

>>32317295
>I've been licenced as a ham since I was 12,
And I've had my ticket since 1995.

>>32317335
What's wrong with Yaesu?

>>32317344
And I've denied the Armenian genocide since 1662.

>>32317397
I bet you have, just like your daddy has denied paternity for the last 14 years. that's what you get when your mama is a two bit roadhouse whore fucking truck drivers in the back of her IROC for half a pack of newports and $20.

>>32317295

Woo-woo guy:

> Be freshly minted ham, and still a kid
> be talking to some 50 year old guy on 2M who I knew (sorta) from the local ham club
> Weird as all fuck
> talking to him one night (I'd talk to anyone back then, lol)
> Goes on a mad tangent about reptilians and woo-woo level conspiracy shit
> Must have gone off his meds, 12 year old me didn't know better so just let the guy do his thing
> starts bringing up the psycho topics at the radio club (Think 90s Alex Jones / art bell type stuff)
> Be told in no uncertain terms this guy was full of shit
> Eventually disappears, never heard from him again.

I don't know if he died, ended up in the psych ward, or was abducted. Probably some combination of the above.

Awkward Mall recruiting:

> Get invited to help out recruiting for the club at the mall
> Sounds cool at first, go day of and help out for a bit
> Realize pretty quickly these guys have no idea what the hell they're doing beyond talking on the radio looking 'busy', hoping people walk up to them and ask what they're doing, and handing out some kind of Archie ham radio comic straight from the 60s.
> Hardly any interest generated in the 2 hours I was there, leave.

I need to think a bit to get more of the weird / funny ones, here's some short meh ones though:

> Old guy who had cancer gave me a bunch of packet radio stuff. RIP old dude, you were pretty cool.
> Guy in the ham club mentored me, was given a ton of odds and ends; 2 meter SWR meter, silicon bolue, etc. Guy ended up going on an expedition to Antarctica and I lost touch with him.
> During field day one year, one of the HF amplifiers literally blew up due too ingesting too many bugs ( which may or may not have died due to me spraying them with bug fogger)

>>32300904
>>32306209


Mic isn't great, pop the case open, drill the hole out a little bigger, sound quality doubled when getting a callback on a 5x5 request

>>32317442
Jesus, man.

Not only content with stealing my name, you have to slander me too?

>>32317717
Beat it turd burglar. How about you update the description of you last YouTube video with this thread number? This should be fun.

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I just bought this for the fun of it. Don't bully.

>>32317796
Other than the antenna sucking ass, there's nothing wrong with a CB and every radioman has one in the the shack.

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Speaking of radio, a few buddies and I managed to track down a pirate radio station that was operating on FM frequencies in my (relatively) large city. Turns out it was some guy living in a tiny bungalow right near downtown, broadcasting with what appears to be a large conductive pipe crudely bolted onto a palm tree in his yard, all with a gas generator providing the necessary power. He's been at it for years, and the FCC has yet to do anything substantial about it

His drunken rants about prostitutes, economics, and his SKS were the fucking best

>>32317819
We had one of those guys here. He was running a 5w or so transmitter and a cheap vertical antenna. He was rebroadcasting some internet Alex Jones like show. This was back in like 99 when everyone was still on dialup.

Why are HAMs such statist bootlickers?

>>32318701
The absolute majority are nothing like Mr. Sperg Ferguson, Radio Cop is.

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>>32300893
>iOperate

>>32318832
They seem even more autistic and deranged than those early internet/Linux pioneer neckbeard. You know like the guys posting on and running BBS systems.

>>32317819
Did you take pics of his setup? What city?

Can I unshield the magnetron in my microwave and screw with the HAM guys?

>>32311347
'A Florida man...'

>>32311265

Wow, you sound like a total female.

>>32311265

You're getting shot, anon.
Just saying.

>>32311252

You mean those who were shilled out for money by the govt. to use a ham lmao. If some normie wasn't capable of using it, why would an angry neckbeard go out of his way to make sure he tattle tells because normie is shitposting on airwaves. Then he obviously knows how to use it.

That's just butthurt entitlement, "muh rights cuz i studied and am a licensed HAM op8r and i payed 80 bucks".

Sometimes I underestimate the sheer autistic might of /k/.


This has been the worst thread I've seen in months.

HAMfags should actually be culled.

I was cool with them until I read through this thread.

>>32320090
Please don't judge all of us on one violently autistic namefag.

>>32318897
The early internet BBS whackjobs understood the importance of personal freedoms.

>>32317354
nothing is wrong with yeasu, hes being a troll.

well actually, they arent as upgradable as other radios. but still

>>32317295
>They look cool but there's really not much to gain from an old tube rig,


there is learning the how tos and basics on a simpler machine, rather than having one that does it for you

thats not to be discounted

>>32320539
By upgradable what do you mean? They have a more limited aftermarket with antennas and batteries?

>>32318701

The same reason pilots are.

>>32320575
>upgradable

I should have said "updatable"
motos and kenwoods get software updates.

>>32320098
I'm not autistic I am just trying to justify the $80 I spent for a certificate of appreciation.

I'd appreciate you showing me the same respect, you worthless scum.

>>32314460
Oh god, not even clansman is clansman compatible

>>32320026
lol, hardly.

I forced a local ham group to change their monthly meeting place to one with more windows. While they were eating and discussing spergy ham shit, I went around the parking with side cutters clipping all their nice expensive antennas. lol

>>32322323
Are you K5NON?

I dont know if this is the right thread for it but id like a radio so when i go camping i can call for help if needed. Sort of like an emergency duress thing, will a baofeng work or should i get something a bit nicer?

I dont mind spending some money because camping/hiking is my biggest hobby after guns

>>32322377
If you're concerned about emergencies when far from civilization you should invest in a personal locator beacon. If you want to talk to people and such when in the backwoods an frs/mers radio is probably better than a ham radio since they don't require a license and have more users.

>>32322405
Those are pretty cool. I honestly had no idea they existed.

I might still pick up a radio but its on tge afterburner now, this thread was interesting

>>32321306
At least with the VX-8R, I know you could mail it to Yaesu to get it upgraded to a VX-8DR.

>>32322377
Get an airband radio, because there will always be somebody listening, and nothing helps reception like thousands of feet of altitude. Only ever use it for emergencies, though.