Hope this is of value to u. The advantage is that this will run for a week before I have to stop by and run it to charge and it repeats with a full 45 watts from a solid antenna base. For an ICOM system: 1. Hate to lose that nice Icom of Kenwood to theft.RoosterVT – Excellent information.

The volunteer interceptor Radio amateurs found themselves being asked to sign the official secrets act prior to being enrolled as a volunteer interceptor (VI). When you are happy to move on take the next fiver letters and do the same, only now combining them with the five you already know. For builders wanting a bit more excitement they can also bridge between modes, offering even greater scope for use. Local communications are great and all, but being able to get news and information from the other side of the world is even better. This static would cause the transmit radio to time out.Next – I tried a different 3.5mm to 2.5mm adapter – success!!!! The coverage, ideally should compliment existing repeaters in your area to enhance coverage.The second thing you will need is a licence from your licencing authority. He said that your radios would have to have removable antennas, and u would need a longer antenna for each radio. The majority of the signals would have been in Morse code, in plain language and also Enigma coded Morse signals. 1 and 2) connected by a cable. I know you are in the same boat as me being limited funds but I agree with elmer, you get to a point of diminishing returns and buying the right tool is the way to go. For many amateurs they have grown up in the hobby using nothing but morse, so to them it's what they enjoy doing.

1 refuses to accept programming in of radio freq’s, both manually and with the programming cord and the CHIRP software.I believe I have just 2 crap radios. He didn’t think just using 2 radios to build a repeater was feasible. The HAM operator on the left transmits a message which is received by the repeater, and the repeater then transmits the message out to the HAM operator on the right via a different channel.The video below does an excellent job describing this better than I can write it.Initial trials provided the same static from the receive radio to the transmit radio. I had so much trouble that I just gave up on the Ham radios.Yes, it would be very advantageous to have but sometimes you need to know when to just say thats it and stop.The following may not work but it costs nothing and only takes seconds. This is an outstanding piece of software which will enable you to practice both sending and receiving five letters, as I have described. Next is to hoist it up 40 feet and try it out. The short answer is yes, and it may surprise you to know how many. When I say this I need to explain that you can send or receive a morse character at 12 words a minute but with an extended pause between each letter. In the UK this suspension lasted until 1946.

The best freeware program currently is written and supported by Ray Burlingame-Goff (G4FON). I was interested in running an antenna up a tree- possibly 20 feet or more and not sure how that will effect my ability to reach out.Take a fishing line and sinker and shoot the line over the highest branch you can find.Keep in mind that battery life will be much shorter if you’re making the radio transmit a lot.RoosterVT – I tried a similar cable and had no luck. My goal is to just have the radio located up in a tree or on top of something and a long cable will not be necessary however I would like to mount an antenna up as high as possible for other applications. Are you going to go with the ICOM system, or a home-brew system? How does one go about building a portable repeater for use at events? There is an article being published Monday here that describes what I am planning on doing. I cant justify attempting to purchase another when I am batting 1000 right now.Besides, I have an Extra class license and I will save up for the ICOM IC 7200 and a few portable antenna arrays. It is important to get the 128 channel version if you want to plug your gateway controller straight in without further modification.Get your setup right and you will have a great repeater which enhances our hobby.This is possibly the most frequently asked question I get asked, by visitors when volunteering at the National Radio Centre.