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[Pacer]

I think Patrick is looking for a place where CLCC could "hang out", a frequently other club members may be monitoring, ect....

I'm sure there is a repeater with room on it to add a club "Net" if someone is willing to make nice with the owner of the antenna.
Maybe a club ham meeting on X frequently at Y time.

Join your local Ham club, listen to their Nets or Meetings to get a feel for how it works.

 

[apinti]

I think Patrick is looking for a place where CLCC could "hang out", a frequently other club members may be monitoring, ect....

I'm sure there is a repeater with room on it to add a club "Net" if someone is willing to make nice with the owner of the antenna.
Maybe a club ham meeting on X frequently at Y time.

Join your local Ham club, listen to their Nets or Meetings to get a feel for how it works.

I understand that, I just think it will be a bit complicated having our own hang out repeater....but i may be wrong...

 

[iptman]

I think Patrick is looking for a place where CLCC could "hang out", a frequently other club members may be monitoring, ect.....

Bingo. I never know what freqs to monitor when I'm driving around. I know it would not be "private" since it'd be published but it'd be cool to have a default freq to monitor knowing some friendlies might be on it.

 

[apinti]

Bingo. I never know what freqs to monitor when I'm driving around. I know it would not be "private" since it'd be published but it'd be cool to have a default freq to monitor knowing some friendlies might be on it.

Yeah, sounds good, but its a bit more complicated then setting up a repeater on the top of the Cove.

 

[emorth]

The challenges are not technical. Repeaters are technically easy.

Most (if not all) of the ham repeater frequency pairs in the DC area are already assigned to hams and ham clubs. There is a frequency coordination process that needs to be done I order to get a freq pair. See tmarc.org

The second challenge is finding an antenna site. Availability in the DC area is limited due to dense govt and cellular need for sites. Antenna sites are not cheap. An interference study is required. If it is a tower site, an engineering study to determine the antenna and coax cable wind and ice load on the tower. There is a long term lease. And on and on and on....

Sorry to be a bummer. Let’s decide on a meet time on a local repeater. Out of courtesy we should contact the repeater owner/club to let them know that we would like to use their repeater. We could also do a “talk in” on meeting nights while we are driving to Kilroy’s.

 

[fireball]

Mitch has a lot of free time. Can't he go to the top of the nearest big hill and hold up the repeater antenna?

 

[Tikicruiser]

I’m pretty sure if you wrap Mitches head in aluminum foil It will be a more than adequate repeater. Cost of the aluminum foil could be prohibitive though.

 

[Pacer]

Are you available right now? I can try to hit the Tysons repeater from my HT.

Mitch

Mitch, you're a regular old Elmer

Let me know if you wanna try and connect up here, I'm near PHL

 

[apinti]

Mitch, you're a regular old Elmer

Let me know if you wanna try and connect up here, I'm near PHL

Do you have HF capabilities?

 

[Diff Kraken]

A few remote testing options coming up this month if anyone is interested in getting your Ham license squared away. Look for test sessions labeled as "Remote":

HamStudy.org: Find an Exam Session

Prepare for your ham radio test for free with stats-driven flash cards, question lists, explanations, and practice tests.

hamstudy.org

 

[afgman786]

A few remote testing options coming up this month if anyone is interested in getting your Ham license squared away. Look for test sessions labeled as "Remote":

HamStudy.org: Find an Exam Session

Prepare for your ham radio test for free with stats-driven flash cards, question lists, explanations, and practice tests.

hamstudy.org

Trying for round 2?

 

[afgman786]

Earthlings and astronauts chat away, via ham radio

The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks.

phys.org