Mobile Install 3.0… Equipment Installation
In this installation of my rambling… how did I physically install the radios. This one is not entirely groundbreaking. Both pros and well disciplined amateurs have been using modular or…
Mobile Install 3.0… Ground versus return…
So…. this is as good a place as any to discuss this concept. In many professional applications, the power harness for the radio has a long positive lead that is…
Mobile Install 3.0… physical attachment of wires to things
As I said, there’s going to be more to come on this. Shortly after publishing my last entry on this overall topic, I realized that this was something I wanted…
Mobile Install 3.0… a Journey towards an end product…
Let me start by stating one thing. I am NOT in the same ballpark as a professional 2-way installer. Those guys do hundreds of installs a year, and have methods…
Wire gauge – what is really overkill?
So another mobile install, and more worries about how much space I have for wire….. things are always tight. I’ve been trying to plan this one out a bit, and…
In the kitchen… Cast Iron
About a year ago, I started cooking with cast iron after our pediatrician recommended it to help with my daughters iron levels. My biggest fear was cleanup- every cast iron…
SDRTrunk…
So, I sold my scanner. I needed something that could monitor P25 Phase 2, in addition to Phase I and analog signals. I could have spent $600 or more on…
TV Antenna re-work… another old post worth sharing
The experiment: Using a TV antenna directly as an amateur radio transceiver antenna. The background: Many websites and magazine articles exist wherein the author has disassembled a TV antenna and…
On Differential Signalling between subsystems….
OK – this is another issue that sparked quite a bit of discussion, and is worth putting out here for others to consider. Differential signals are a great concept –…
MMDVM on P25…
It took over a week, a complete network reconfiguration, and a lot of google searching to figure this one out. I wanted my MMDVM on P25 for a number of…