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KA9MOT
09-13-2010, 01:33 AM
I swapped for this radio and received it last week. It is an old radio and needed a little clean-up and a display bulb.
I whipped out the old toothbrush, soft bristle brush, some rags and a can of Invisible Glass. I also broke out a couple of white 3mm LEDs and the resistors that came packaged with them.
I got her cleaned up, and swapped out the bulbs in short order. Hmmmm White bulbs = yellow/orange display...White LEDs = Emerald Green display. I don't quite know how that happened, but I like it (I tested the LEDs before install and they are white).

I programmed the rig manually because I had the cable but no software.......it arrived in the mail yesterday.
Tonight I hooked up the cable, ran the software and read the radio. I added about 10 frequencies (where I stopped the other day because I am lazy) and sent it all back to the rig. It didn't go, and reset the rig. After fooling with it for an hour I decided I would just have to reprogram the rig manually. So I did.

When programming a repeater I hate to kerchunk it just to see if everything is programmed correctly, so instead, I ID and say, "Testing". I did this 20 times during the day the last time and I had one person come on when and say I had it correct and my signal was good into the repeater. I've discovered that when you do this at night, with 33 repeaters, you have close to 20 QSOs. Hell, I thought 2M/70cm was dead!

I think from now on instead of keying and saying, "KA9MOT is listening", which nobody ever answers, I am going to say, "KA9MOT is Testing"! You get much better results that way.

73,
Steve KA9MOT

NQ6U
09-13-2010, 01:35 AM
Makes sense to me. I aways come back to someone on a repeater when I hear them say "testing."

WØTKX
09-13-2010, 02:15 PM
http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/036/Purple/48/6a/59/mzi.ydazncps.175x175-75.jpg


http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/005/Purple/18/66/bb/mzl.lesugwfj.175x175-75.jpg


http://www.rozhlas.cz/portal/portal/

KA9MOT
09-13-2010, 02:32 PM
http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/036/Purple/48/6a/59/mzi.ydazncps.175x175-75.jpg


http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/005/Purple/18/66/bb/mzl.lesugwfj.175x175-75.jpg




http://www.rozhlas.cz/portal/portal/

I don't get it...............

NQ6U
09-13-2010, 03:15 PM
I don't get it...............

"Czech's in the mail," I guess.

WØTKX
09-13-2010, 04:37 PM
Radio Czech...

KA9MOT
09-13-2010, 04:46 PM
OK! I get it finally...slow today I guess! :lol:

WØTKX
09-13-2010, 04:53 PM
http://pythonparty.com/images/my_brain_hurts__occ1.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu4fP4fOHE