Me!Here!
Bought an X
- Location
- Somerville, MA
What's everyone using for mounting the antenna?
NMO mount attached to the Hep's basket.What's everyone using for mounting the antenna?
Fancy rig!! I'll have to do some studying up on it tomorrow! I was looking at the Kenwood TH-D74A but I've had to divert some funds so not sure it's actually gonna happen.New toy arrived. ALinco HT DJ-MD5GP ( on sale @ HRO $149.00 ). Boy nice screen bright easy to read..
DMR/analog Combo.. APRS/ Texting/ Etc..
software for programming.. OUCH.. this is gonna be a winter project! NO RT-System Software.. After 1 hour was able to plug in one Local Repeater.. Line one..
Might have stepped into a too fancy of a Radio... Learning the beast!.
Its fancy alright.. lots of menu's.. Using computer to program it, seems to be the Best way. So far.. learning curve is Vertical!!.
have least 128 Freq lines to enter.. and Lucky me Can't import to the file.. Monkey type line by line..
For the cost was worthy of getting.. Battery Charge time was 3 hours.. out of the box.. Book say's 3.5 hours.. Vs my Yasue 5 hours
Few of us now have this new Fancy Alinco HT (DJ-MD5) With DMR. Add few beers many strings of Modern Text messages. We were able to send a simple text Via the Simplex DMR mode.. So far. range is 9 miles. Funny have to use modern cell phone to send Friend send you Test message now.. On a ham radio.. hahaha.
NO instructions Either.. New frontier that Only Misfit ham's of the dark side may explore. ;-)
^^^^ Pretty... New fancy adult toy...
looks like a long night for yea tonight.. for install. and programming. ;-)
Finally got the FTM-400 I've been wanting for years when HRO and Yaesu had the rebate deals at the same time a couple weeks back. And now.... the X is MIA. (Son has it for a few weeks.) No worries, gives me time to go look up install details.
Playing with it as a base station rig for now. Can't wait to get it mobile and try to figure out APRS.
OK, wait... You have moisture ingress at the plug to the radio INSIDE the truck?Well luck would have it, I have moisture on my coax plug To Radio.. AGAIN!!! (Replaced Feb 28 2019.) This is my 3rd cable So 1 year fails.
I sealed the Heck out of cable and connections on roof..
Theory? Outside is cold, inside warm. cycling daily. Would that be enough to Create moisture in the coax line?. Any thoughts?.
*** Cable is ran from Roof antenna Rear Right Roof Corner. Fed through hatch snaked down under Rear seat, to Radio ( mounted on center Rear cup holder )
Next option is Hood Mount, and run inside engine area To Firewall To radio.. $24 bucks for new one for 1 year use... ugh.
Running a 5/8 wave browning 34" mag mount . hate to drill into roof, due to the High amount of rain, and Stuff I toss on roof..
Hmm Opek might have to look into that.
More than likely moisture is wicking from the external connection. What did you do to seal it?YES. right at the Attachment point to radio.. It's like the coax is acting like a siphon, Or Thermal Fluctuations over time is creating the moisture at lowest end. ( radio)
More than likely moisture is wicking from the external connection. What did you do to seal it?