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What about an IDE to Compact Flash Adapter?

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The one in the Lloyd Center mall Oh yes...there is a story about this...and its always been a corporate store. Originally back in 2015, this location was to be closed, so they started their closure sale. At the same time, mall ownership changed; new management started to raise the rents on stores, ...

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I happen to visit the Portland RS a couple of weeks ago. They had a big sale on but repeatedly said they were not closing. Since not all items were on sale, perhaps this was an example of a franchise store run by an independent quitting the RS stock? It was actually a pretty good store. Which locat...

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My wife is an assistant store manager of RS; back in 2015, the store she was a full manager at closed as high rent was the problem. This time around, its the stores that Sprint was paying to keep open; since Sprint pulled out of the deal, those stores closed up. However, the current store she is at ...

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I haven't had a chance to talk to my father fully yet about what tricks up his sleeve, but talking to another former Planar employee, he did suggest there is a few repair shops out there actually staffed that can do repair on most display issues; however if the display has any internal shorts its a ...

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Talking with someone who deals with supporting legacy software on modern to the extreme (he gets to figure out the hard way what gets broken and attempts to find work arounds) he said the 16-bit calls in most radio programming software are are related to the access of the serial port.

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I've only bought Andrew Decibel antennas new a couple of times... the rest were hamfest or Ebay finds, usually $50 or less. A 30-year old DB antenna will beat the pants off a brand-new Comet antenna. Amen to that...and don't forget tower site junk piles....its where I got a folded dipole that all i...

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I know there's been talk of the Planar EL display in the COM-120B. Is there any replacement available? Also, what is the exact part number for the display? I saw someone mention the EL569.400 for the COM-120A, but I don't know if that's the same for the COM-120B. I'm also curious about how to backu...

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Oh man, this takes me back...I put a line input jack on my old 1995 Caravan back in the day using the CD changer input on the rear.

I found this, which from reading the comments works for your 2004. It uses that telephone line.
http://saabworld.net/showthread.php?t=28000

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Interesting Bill...this explains why users of said system I know of were telling me "It gets angry sometimes"

DSD is pretty decent, however you might to look at using OP25 with its detailed P25 abilities; but that requires you to setup a Linux box.

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I'm curious where you have the power pigtail plugged in from the battery?

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If Verizon owns the fiber to the site, they generally will be able to figure out something for you, but that was circa 2006.

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Bill, as probably one of the few people on this forum who has actually met you, I can assure you, when you write your disssertations on why X is Y and not Z, its because you were there when the thing was invented...

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I think thats a smart idea...I would like to be able to use Tapatalk with this fourm...

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Yes, they work fine...I have the same radio out on both a Kenwood DMR repeater and a Motorola TRBO repeater and no issues as long as the CC and slot are set right.

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I admit, I had some issues with the story that was explained, only because I have some good friends "in the trade" who told me "that doesn't make sense" but that's a topic to have a cold beer in the bar. I enjoyed the board-level technical discussions on discontinued products on ...

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I liked the site too and wish it did come back.

My only complaint was that sometimes it got too "preachy" but I at least was given a chance to voice my two cents when those topics come up.

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RF does squirrelly stuff in a lot of vehicles. Some are seemingly immune, and some aren't. It's been a problem for a long time, and it takes patience and money to fix it. This is why we do our best to put the antenna top center of the (metal) roof whenever possible. These days the most common probl...

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I had sort of a similar issue with a Pioneer deck in one of my rigs once; the problem went away when I switched to a different stereo deck. I never got around to confirm what the exact issue was, but I have a hunch there was something weird like loose frame/board screws inside the deck itself.

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You know, I remember reading about this same problem elsewhere. If I remember right it was something like a diode failing...I'll see if I can find what I am talking about.

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I was thinking about this too...as I understand, all the modem functions are in the control head of the VRM and there's nothing special about the radio otherwise as I understand...

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Renamon wrote:Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usG7aUWKAt8

Thanks...I should of noticed that in the start of this thread.

Well, its not exactly I was thinking of, but something else that comes to mind...is there a wireless weather thermometer or weather station nearby?

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Reminds me of a school bus customer we gained a couple years ago. We have these lumpy mountain thingies around here that can make propagation and isolation strange at times. All kinds of opportunities for good coverage, no coverage, and lucky coverage. In this case unlucky coverage. The school dist...

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I remember ran into this once with a very very awfully built ham repeater that some genius decided to add DPL support with a tone board. While helping out the ham who built this contraption fix this (I wish had a picture...), we found that certain DPL codes didn't have it on. If you can, try using a...

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I'll take a look at it today at some point and get back to you. I do know that even with this RX issue, the TX side is transmitting fine and on frequency.

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A while back, I picked up a "tech special" VHF M1225 20-channel that was described as "always on once powered appied and no internal speaker installed". Once I got it and did some testing and found it has no further issues, but there was a sticker on it from the previous owner th...

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....and your also supposed to indicate bandwidth as either W or N in the 205...

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g8tzl2004 wrote:Did you ever align your VX4000?

I had a hi-band VHF one for a bit I had a friend align; he had no issue with it as I recall.

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Yeah...I found my old text file notes that made mention of the leading zero in the hex frequency.

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If I remember right, the other band limits should be nearby the 450 frequency...

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If you really do have your hearts set a certain site that Crown Castle has operated, I know when in the past I was trying to get someone to contact me about leasing at a site where I couldn't even find out who owns the place, I ended up discovering who one of the lessees and actually helped me with ...

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I have done a few BC-120 portables; you are using the right software but the issue I found is some programming cables I needed to hold and push in the 3.5 mm jack into the radio while reading/writing to get it to work.

Edit: Oh wait? Business Level CPS? Entry Level Business I hope...

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Some of those generators as I heard thru the grapevine that American Tower were done for service due to the high operating hours on them.

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Backing up Bill_G here; where I have USED infrastructure that he has worked on in the crazy mountains we have here in Oregon, I agree with him that a properly set up radio system should have no difference in range after going narrowband, but I think what happens is some of the radios that do both 25...

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So on a recent trip to the bay area, I saw an officer with one agency down there with one of these puppies; I chatted up one officer and he loves it because it makes no noise; he said this came in handy when there was a recent attempted backpack snatching up a side street and he was able to sneak up...

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What I used to do was go get one of the flat deck brackets from Home Depot, paint it black, then pair it with the L-bracket.

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There's someone else who makes a grey colored one; I've seen it...I want to say it was Motorola for some reason...

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So I heard this deal includes pagers? Is that correct?

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Sweet! I can think of the perfect application for this in SAR

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One of my friends I know spoke to them about off-road capabilities; in the process of that they were told the radio box is designed for normal motorcycle radio configurations; so I'm guessing 15W on VHF/UHF and 10W on 700/800.

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Also, some of the new power supplies I have seen in newer devices have a range of voltage they work on.

Then you have the AC tools with motors from Harbor freight that work on both AC and DC....

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Don't laugh. I've had to put radomes on yagis and decorate them with flags so they meet the visual blight standards of a rooftop, and put white plastic cross arms on fiberglass sticks so they look like the crucifixes on Calvary (which actually turned out kind of cool looking). Those third grade ski...

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Most of the firefighters and police officers who do COM-L I find know simplex and repeater; they just don't realize its called direct or thru the system in their own world. Its more of finding out the limitations of your equipment...like I know someone that was doing a COM-L class in Chicago and wel...

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As someone who does search & rescue communcations in the mountains of the NW, I can tell you that extra 3.4 db increase in power helps...

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Good to know!

And sorry, the PA is spoken for already by a friend.

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Okay, so I got an R1225 repeater with of course a bad PA. Reading around here on batlabs, I see some people have gone to instead replace the bad PA with a GM300 PA. Since I have a few UHF GM300s laying around, I figure I would do the upgrade. Is pretty much putting in a GM300 PA in a R1225 just like...

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I've heard of a shop doing this one but only because the shop in question had unorthodox customers so any applicants they gave a tour of one of their customer's sites with permission to better explain and filter out any applciants who can't handle it.

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Bill_G wrote:School buses are definitely a challenge. You really never know what you are going to find in the wiring. Almost as bad as dump trucks with a half million miles and five previous owners.

You mean like this?

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One of the lady officers I know told me when they did details that required them to wear nice dresses and use the DCR when they first came out the issue of placing them in that scenario was a problem. Motorola's actual suggestion was to gaffer tape them to their back. Later on they came up the harne...

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I ended up doing a wild goose chase like this once. After spending a week, I found that the no longer present repeater was installed on the ground floor of a 15 story building and they ran some type of RG-213 type coax that I can't figure out exactly it is up to the roof via the elevator shaft to th...

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