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02-26-26 I know next to nothing about current CB... I've never been a fan of CB radio since the mid 70's with all the weirdo's running power just to hear themselves talk, people walking over each other and the general... 02-26-26, 14:09 pm I've never been a fan of CB radio since the mid 70's with all the weirdo's running power just to hear themselves talk, people walking over each other and the general rudeness and irritating noise of AM 11 meters in general. Well, now I live in a retirement community with a lot of folks older than me who do not have and do not want a computer, so I get tapped to "find the best deals" on stuff. Now we have a shut-in that wants a CB to talk with folks. I've been asked "to look into the... Read more View article »
02-26-26 Burlington County P25 reception after our storm Has anyone noticed any changes in the Burlington County P25 system since about Monday evening? Since then I've noticed choppy reception on my Uniden SDS scanner as soon ... 02-26-26, 14:08 pm Has anyone noticed any changes in the Burlington County P25 system since about Monday evening? Since then I've noticed choppy reception on my Uniden SDS scanner as soon as I travel right outside the county. I also live right outside the county and see this in spots. I haven't seen this before. The scanner suddenly gets really choppy and garbled, and the Digital Error Rate jumps, and then a second later into the conversation it seems to recover. In a longer transmission this happens several... Read more View article »
02-26-26 Building an indoor low band VHF antenna. I'd like to scan low band VHF at my condo. I don't have the room for a ground plane antenna so I'm thinking of building a dipole for 40 MHz mounted vertically inside my... 02-26-26, 14:05 pm I'd like to scan low band VHF at my condo. I don't have the room for a ground plane antenna so I'm thinking of building a dipole for 40 MHz mounted vertically inside my 2nd (top) story condo. Should this work? View article »
02-26-26 Michigan Military Activity I would like to make this a sticky so we can log the routine military activity in our airspace. 02-26-26, 14:05 pm I would like to make this a sticky so we can log the routine military activity in our airspace. View article »
02-26-26 Broadcastify Calls - Trunked System Console... I'm excited to announce a technology preview of a Broadcastify Calls Trunked Radio System Console: https://www.broadcastify.com/calls/trs-console/ This live... 02-26-26, 13:59 pm I'm excited to announce a technology preview of a Broadcastify Calls Trunked Radio System Console: https://www.broadcastify.com/calls/trs-console/ This live monitoring workspace powered by Broadcastify Calls is designed to provide system awareness across multiple trunked systems, with visual talkgroup activity and optional dual-player audio routing. It's perfect for when you hear about an incident, you know it's going to be covered on a trunked system, and you dial... Read more View article »
02-26-26 Hartford Police EDACS to P25 Does anyone have any inside insights they can share about Hartford's plans to move from their legacy EDACS system (still used by Police, EMS, and other city departments... 02-26-26, 13:59 pm Does anyone have any inside insights they can share about Hartford's plans to move from their legacy EDACS system (still used by Police, EMS, and other city departments minus Fire) to P25? Radio service was testing P25 traffic on some of the same channels as their EDACS system uses. I assume they may have an EDACS migration gateway for EDACS/P25 coexistence on the same radios. Any insights are appreciated... View article »
02-26-26 Converting a DB201 UHF to a DB201 VHF Hello everybody, I have a DB201 UHF and I would like to convert it to VHF. Does any of you have try that? If yes, - How you did you extended the radiation element? -... 02-26-26, 13:54 pm Hello everybody, I have a DB201 UHF and I would like to convert it to VHF. Does any of you have try that? If yes, - How you did you extended the radiation element? - How did you seal again the epoxy in the middle of the antenna? - Did you use the same impedance adapter? or it has to be modified? - After modification, it was only for a specific frequency, or you made it tunable without efforts (like with easy release of the radiator element? It is tuned for 450MHz (radiator length... Read more View article »

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