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skegpro
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Yeah, programming cable is more than a boafeng.
A better VHF radio
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The radio put out 7.1 watts.
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Done.
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Haha, hopefully the radio is not done! I ordered that diamond antenna, 51 bucks later. I will be testing it against a ton more i have coming.
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Got a full 136-174.
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Well i will have to say that was a pretty impressive task you took on.
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Lol, not really.
This unit the diode is so small you just scrape it off of the circuit board with a precision screwdriver. The hardest part was picking which diode lol.
Not much info out there yet as the v86 is so new.
And ICOM gave me a copy of the software if you ever need. Chirp has bugs right now for this radio.
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Right on I will keep that in mind, and if you need Icom v82 software i have that
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Canada post sent my diamond antenna to Stoney Creek ontario were it has been sitting for 2 weeks now, i have a few other antennas coming for testing as well. I will post if i ever receive them.
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Anyone have any luck connecting to iss with a handheld radio? I tried at the closes fly by with all the doppler shifts, maybe it is in digipeater mode, i can tell it is sending something but my radio is not picking up anything. My high hopes are fading fast.
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One of our radio nerds I used to work with talks to the space station. He was programming a couple radios for a repeater and was all excited to show me. It was actually kinda cool in a nerdy way!
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If you can differentiate what the USA requires and what Canada requires.
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Well after one month the diamond antenna finally arrived Testing was done on RR17 and bca C channel.
Diamond 1.84 and 1.56
Rs 771 1.41 and 19.9
Nagoya 2.20 and 2.1
Gt-3tp L 1.38 and 1.53
Retevis F 1.42 and 1.64
Retevis m 1.08 and 2.7
nagoya counterfeit 1.73 and 7.3
Diamond 1.84 and 1.56
Rs 771 1.41 and 19.9
Nagoya 2.20 and 2.1
Gt-3tp L 1.38 and 1.53
Retevis F 1.42 and 1.64
Retevis m 1.08 and 2.7
nagoya counterfeit 1.73 and 7.3
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Retevis 10watt antenna the top two retevis antennas are 20w 4.6 and 19.9
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What numbers are these???
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This would be SWR reading if you had a reading of 1.0 your radio would be transmitting 100% of its power and a reading of 3.0 it be transmitting a 1/3 of the radios power.
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So where does a guy buy the best anttena?
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