@JakeisbadatThis I will be at the meeting........... unless I win the lottery. Then you can fly in my jet to my private island in the South Pacific and we can program your radios while we fish from my yacht. :)
Well, I have no idea what you are talking about 😉
The Baofeng UV-5R is the most popular and has all of the necessary features and is relatively inexpensive. They are easy to program via the front panel (takes a while) or using the Chirp software (free download) a cable is required - Amazon has...
Well??? Let’s see??? Ummmm. Geeeeee. I guess, maybe, I just got one so that I could learn how to program it so I could program your Baofengs back before you knew how to do it. Yep. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it! I would never own one of those cheap radios (at least that I would admit...
Geek Alert
If you drop your Baofeng UV5R, the retainer clip that holds in the battery will most likely break. I just ordered a pack of 10 replacement clips. Let me know if you need one. I hope I won’t need all 10 of them.
Oh no!!! Bummer. So sorry. I’m sure choosing to go to Myrtle or the tech day was an extremely difficult decision. 🤔
So, there is an option… we could move the tech day to Myrtle so we can do the class and help you enjoy the beach. I’m in for that. 👍
Electrical Tech Day: Saturday June 8
Braddock District Office
9002 Burke Lake Rd
Burke, VA 22015
(about a mile west of Kilroy's)
The class is typically a day long learning experience with lunch provided by the club. We have the classroom from 9 - 5. We can leave whenever you can't stay awake...
OK, sorry for the delay, I had to wait for some family events to be finalized. Unfortunately, May is booked with family and other stuff (I know, that's not as important as an electrical class). Sorry.
The new date for the electrical class is Saturday June 8.
Hope that works for everyone.
Lunch...
Yep. What @Diff Kraken said. Gee, that chart looks really familiar. :geek:
The club has 12 "loaner" radios for events. I am not sure where they are living at the moment. Also, the batteries are starting to get old (like me) so they may not last all day. So take a spare battery with you...
Any receiver can be vulnerable to RF (radio frequency) interference in a variety of ways. It might be interesting to do some experiments to see how susceptible winch receivers are to transmitters (CB, FRS, GMRS, MURS, HAM, cell phones) that are used on trails.
The other concern with remote control winches is interference. If someone close to the winch (winch’s receiver) transmits on a handheld or mobile radio there is the potential for the radio’s signal to interfere with the signal from the winch’s remote.