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by robbage
Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:42 pm
Forum: Amateur Radio
Topic: HF/UHF/VHF Tranceivers
Replies: 4
Views: 4024

Re: HF/UHF/VHF Tranceivers

Both Icoms cover 30kHz–200MHz and 400–470MHz RX out of the box. I'm not aware of any mods to receive 200-400MHz (not much there anyway.. occasional military) or above 470MHz. If there are receiver mods, they wouldn't be illegal... many receivers cover a lot more than that. A good VHF/UHF set might b...
by robbage
Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:11 pm
Forum: Amateur Radio
Topic: HF/UHF/VHF Tranceivers
Replies: 4
Views: 4024

Re: HF/UHF/VHF Tranceivers

Hi Matt, you might be looking at Yaesu FT-857 or FT-897 , Icom IC-706MK2G or IC-7000 . As far as I can remember all of those do all bands from 160m to 70cm. Also should be good to receive the other freqs you mentioned. They all sell occasionally on VK Classifieds. Here's an IC-706 on there now which...
by robbage
Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:04 pm
Forum: Amateur Radio
Topic: APRS - part two
Replies: 124
Views: 72678

Re: APRS - part two

We are trialling some APRS digipeaters and i-gates on 70cm . If you have the gear to try it out, give it a go. The frequency is 439.100 MHz at 1200 baud. So far there is VK6LD-4 igate and VK6GHZ-1 digipeater in the south east, VK6UFO-4 igate/digipeater (part time) north east and VK6RN-1 digipeater w...
by robbage
Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:20 pm
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

The only other thing I can suggest is uninstalling the Zadig drivers completely and start again.

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by robbage
Mon Aug 19, 2013 5:02 pm
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

When you say the radio and remote come up separate, is that to do with Interface 0 and Interface 1? I installed the driver to both as one of the instructions said it was best to. I bought the one from your first link with the remote. Yes, interface 0 and 1. The first one is always the tuner and the...
by robbage
Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:12 am
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

Couple of small issues, one being when I start SDR# it comes up three times with an ASIO something something error and I have to press OK each time, does this happen to anyone else? No. Can you post a screencap? One thing that was trapping people.. using a dongle with a remote control. The radio an...
by robbage
Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:43 pm
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

If you're running on XP then you need to download the XP version of the Zadig driver. The auto-download batchfile thingy downloads the Zadig version for Vista/Seven/Eight. You should see some default plugins (recorder, freq manager, noise reduction) as supplied with the app. Other plugins are third ...
by robbage
Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:45 pm
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

SDRSharp monitoring a 2.4 MHz VHF chunk which carries WAERN and others. You can see multiple WAERN repeaters currently active.

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by robbage
Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:51 am
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

Cheers Rob, does the SDR program or whatever program you have used enable recording and/or put a bunch of frequencies in and hit scan relatively easily for conventional scanning? http://sdrsharp.com for Windows XP or later Yep, most things like that are plug-ins. The recording and frequency manager...
by robbage
Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:57 am
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

yorky wrote:I read past that as well, although note you need an OTG (on the go) cable (which is only a few $ anyway).
Yes, an OTG and preferably connect a powered USB hub to that. Most of the dongles suck a lot of energy.
I ordered a few of these micro OTG from the same place They also have mini OTG
by robbage
Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:48 am
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

What about running multiple dongles/streams on one PC? Since the good 'ol days is generally one scanner scanning how would it go say plugged 2+ dongles in and being able to set each one to different frequencies and/or set them to scan set ranges each is that possible? Apparently so. I haven't tried...
by robbage
Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:08 am
Forum: Scanners and Receivers
Topic: How to 'build a $19 scanner'
Replies: 27
Views: 29337

Re: How to 'build a $19 scanner'

Many people are using this Digital TV dongle for that project. It's the same device but a number of places sell them with different names and labelling. I have a couple for just general scanning. They work from around 24 MHz to 1.868 GHz http://img.dxcdn.com/productimages/sku_170541_3.jpg I've just ...
by robbage
Mon May 20, 2013 7:29 pm
Forum: Amateur Radio
Topic: ACMA plots amateur radio band harvest for LTE
Replies: 11
Views: 11058

Re: ACMA plots amateur radio band harvest for LTE

I just paid $28 for my licence and $45 tax. What's that... around 160% ?
by robbage
Wed May 08, 2013 4:39 pm
Forum: Amateur Radio
Topic: Coaxial cable stuff
Replies: 12
Views: 7469

Re: Coaxial cable stuff

http://www.qsl.net/dk3xt/cable.htm A nice cheat sheet for various coax types. Shows loss for different VHF/UHF ham bands, coax diameter and velocity factor as well as a table for 1/4 wave and 1/2 electrical lengths (eg for stub filters, baluns etc) Also.. does anybody know where I can buy Belden H15...
by robbage
Sun May 05, 2013 7:22 pm
Forum: FAQs and general frequency lists
Topic: Uniden Bearcat UBC73xlt
Replies: 2
Views: 6498

Re: Uniden Bearcat UBC73xlt

Page 30 in my manual. The electronic manual (PDF) can be found online with any decent internet search engine or google. I believe it's the same manual for the UBC72XLT and UBC73XLT.