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- Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Satellite TV
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4020
Re: Satellite TV
Hello vk6hgr, Yeah, thank's for the info on the 'Access Antennas' ... yeah, basically that's what I'm after the C-Band ... I just want to get the broadcast from Indonesia (Palapa-D satellite) just catching up with the TV shows and news over there. As with the receiver and the tracking mechanism ... ...
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:20 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Satellite TV
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4020
Satellite TV
Hello all, Does anyone know some information about satellite TV ? I have seen plenty of people have these big satellite dishes on their backyards (their reflector usually made of a black mesh kind of metal so they look transparent from the distance ) ... How do they work and why those TV channels ar...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:01 am
- Forum: Amateur Radio
- Topic: Coaxial cable stuff
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7577
Re: Coaxial cable stuff
Aha ... ! Of course ... the connectors have to be as big as the cables themselves ... !vk6hgr wrote: The hard part about using the more exotic coax cables though is finding matching connectors.
Imagine using an LMR-1700 Coax ... to a handheld transceiver using an SMA connector ...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:37 am
- Forum: Amateur Radio
- Topic: Coaxial cable stuff
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7577
Re: Coaxial cable stuff
Hello all, I'm researching about Coaxial cables ... I just had a look at this wikipedia page and there is a big list of all sorts of coax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable My question is : Can I use any coax ( say for transmitting or receiving in 2m Amateur Band ) as long as they are 50 Ω i...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:19 am
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Interesting Spectrum Analyzer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4357
Re: Interesting Spectrum Analyzer
Hello Blinky, I had a look at the Signal Hound website ... the device is massive isn't it ... It looks more sophisticated and definitely more expensive ... Thank's for the link ...Blinky wrote: I'd rather have this
http://www.signalhound.com/
a more expensive toy for playing around
- Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:05 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Interesting Spectrum Analyzer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4357
Re: Interesting Spectrum Analyzer
Yeah, I just download and tried the inSSIDer ... impressive ... especially for a freeware ... Open Source too ... that's even better ...
What do you use it for ? Just to play around or is it anything to do with your work ?
What do you use it for ? Just to play around or is it anything to do with your work ?
- Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:45 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Interesting Spectrum Analyzer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4357
Interesting Spectrum Analyzer
http://www.metageek.net/
What do you think ? I think it's pretty cool ... but expensive for a toy for playing around ...
What do you think ? I think it's pretty cool ... but expensive for a toy for playing around ...
- Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:17 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Radio Related Shop and other stuffs too ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3742
Re: Radio Related Shop and other stuffs too ...
Thank's for that :smt023 That's a pretty similiar kind of website shop but also as cool ... I bought my Diamond SG7500 from the one I mentioned and I am really satisfied with it ... It's a pity that they don't have the whole range of Diamond Products for sale ... but pretty eclectic online shop ... ...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Radio Related Shop and other stuffs too ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3742
Radio Related Shop and other stuffs too ...
I found some interesting bits and pieces here ... not badly priced too ...
http://www.409shop.com/shop.php
http://www.409shop.com/shop.php
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: quick question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6314
Re: quick question
I think you can if you are a superhero ... or at least in a superhero costume (eg. just like Kick-Ass, Batman or Superman) ...
Re: UHF CBers
When I bought my first scanner ICOM IC-R6, turned it on and press 'SCAN', Channel 3 UHF CB is the first frequency it picked up ... :smt084 ... It took me a while to figure out what that frequency is all about ... I heard someone playing music so I thought it was a narrowband broadcast station but th...
- Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:07 am
- Forum: Amateur Radio
- Topic: just stumbled across this
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9574
Re: just stumbled across this
I heard this on WIA News last Sunday (Yesterday) ... I thought that he won the case and get to keep the antenna on ... < Please correct me if I miss heard it ... >
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:23 am
- Forum: Amateur Radio
- Topic: Blowing up 40 meters traps
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2284
Blowing up 40 meters traps
I was reading the reviews on the Unadilla dipole antenna http://www.unadilla.com/?p=36 , and found this comment on how this guy (VE2DC) blew up those 40 meters traps ... How could he blow up traps ? Aren't traps just a piece of wire wound around a plastic tubes ? http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/9...
- Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:53 am
- Forum: Amateur Radio
- Topic: sandbagging???????
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5113
Re: sandbagging???????
Its a CB term that is slipping into amateur radio it means just listening to a conversation. Personally I don't like it along with "on the side" and "handle" should stay on CB Really ... ? Handle is a CB term ? ... :D I was talking to an amateur in Malaysia via the Fremantle rep...
- Tue May 24, 2011 1:50 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Jamming TVs using iPhone
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2618