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02-15-26 New Newton County system Question for anyone in the know. Newton county is building sites on the EMS properties on the North end of the county near lake village and Southern end near brooke. I... 02-15-26, 17:55 pm Question for anyone in the know. Newton county is building sites on the EMS properties on the North end of the county near lake village and Southern end near brooke. I seen on the wiki 2 new sites are coming for the IPSC, these sites seem weird they seem to be building 4 towers on each of the 2 sites. Possibly gonna be a simulcast system for Newton county. I wonder if the one site they have already will be part of this. Or if it will be 2 separate systems for each tower site. Anyone have... Read more View article »
02-15-26 eBay Unication G4 G5 antenna to avoid I had a $20 eBay gift card so decided to pull the trigger on an aftermarket 800 mhz antenna for the G4/G5. https://www.ebay.com/itm/257270324557 The antenna shipped... 02-15-26, 17:54 pm I had a $20 eBay gift card so decided to pull the trigger on an aftermarket 800 mhz antenna for the G4/G5. https://www.ebay.com/itm/257270324557 The antenna shipped remarkably fast and looks beautiful on the scanner. However signal reception is most important and I found it gets either the same or more often a bar or two less on distant sites than either the blue or purple band OEM Unication antennas. Overall, I'm not gonna use this antenna in the future and continue to use the... Read more View article »
02-15-26 Custom air core loading coils? I'm working on improving my 80 meter stealth "upright L" coil-loaded antenna. I've now successfully constructed a large, low-loss 1:4 (1.5 [antenna] to 50... 02-15-26, 17:47 pm I'm working on improving my 80 meter stealth "upright L" coil-loaded antenna. I've now successfully constructed a large, low-loss 1:4 (1.5 [antenna] to 50 [feedline]) ohm unun and a low-loss, high common mode impedance choke balun. I've gone from a single loading coil on one side to two coils, one on each side. This makes the job of the choke easier. I made a large loading coil, 77 uH, for the orginal; its 7 inches long and 6.5 inches diameter, air core on three teflon ribs. The extreme ugliness of... Read more View article »
02-15-26 Compactenna TriBand I have a compactenna tri-band and was hoping that someone with experience with this type of antenna can help. I do know they work best on the vehicle corners. I have a... 02-15-26, 17:44 pm I have a compactenna tri-band and was hoping that someone with experience with this type of antenna can help. I do know they work best on the vehicle corners. I have a SUV so it sets rather high. The compactenna works best for me with garaging the vehicle. I want to place the antenna on the luggage rail near the vehicle corner which the mount would be grounded to the vehicle chassis. The antenna would set a little higher of the metal roof since it resides on the luggage rail. Before I buy... Read more View article »
02-15-26 CLMRN (was CSERN) All cars being called in today to install new radios. Any insight on this? Hope its not for the “e” option. 02-15-26, 17:38 pm All cars being called in today to install new radios. Any insight on this? Hope its not for the “e” option. View article »
02-15-26 ICE/CBP Using Zello?! I was watching a news clip of a recently release Axon body cam video from an ICE/CBP incident in Chicago and I noticed this. It would appear that some arrest/patrol/ERO... 02-15-26, 17:36 pm I was watching a news clip of a recently release Axon body cam video from an ICE/CBP incident in Chicago and I noticed this. It would appear that some arrest/patrol/ERO teams are using Zello on Android while on operations rather than the systems and frequencies they have access to on their APX's. Had a officer I know in Minnesota confirm he had seen the same there. View article »

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